The question of whether the number of people who download comics online would actually pay for what they’re downloading is a tricky one. Not everyone who reads your […]
I don’t really consider what I do to be cartooning. I make sequential art and I think there’s a difference.
I wasn’t a mainstream journalist – I didn’t have access to the people in power. Whenever I went to some place, I thought, these people aren’t going to […]
American comics are more creative than ever, and the ideas developed there find many types of homes: some are perfect just as comics and some move to other […]
If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could […]
Comics are such an incredibly unique form of art and literature, when comics are done right, there really is nothing like them.
Neal Adams kind – and that includes Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, and my own father, God rest his soul, none of these men had a nanosecond’s patience with […]
However useful we cartoonists are as licensed idiots, we’re not quite safe either, not least because as satirists it’s our job – and our vocation – to mock […]
I said ‘Stan [Lee], I’m a writer, and I’m currently writing for DC Comics. I want a change.’ He said ‘We don’t like the writing for DC Comics.’ […]
The comics were invented for commercial purposes. They were, and are, a graphic feature designed to help sell newspapers. Cartoonists work within severe space constraints on an inflexible […]
I felt really bogged down by knee-jerk obligatory negativity in alternative comics […] even if I’m complaining about something when I’m in it, I always remember it in […]
Artists had the same spark in their eyes, like back home, and maybe their pencils were better quality, but nobody drank at work. That was a big difference.
When you read a comic the cartoon hero is not a representation of its elusive, flesh-and-bone creator. It’s a circle face with expressive lines for eyes and a […]
It’s very difficult for me when people ask me to do a talk or an example of a page – how I break down a page and stuff […]