Make mistakes. Surprise ourselves. Try anything else. Fail. Fail better. And succeed in ways we never would have imagined a year or a week ago.
I was very talented, I was a trailblazer and I was a fuckface and an asshole. To me they’re all the same thing, I wear all those names […]
Like any medium, comics has its rogues’ gallery of sexist sexist portrayals of women and of relationships between women and men. And it also has some wonderful work […]
Magneto’s an old terrorist bastard. I got into trouble – the X-Men fans hated me because I made him into a stupid old drug-addicted idiot. He had started […]
Tove Jansson responded to the world with a freshness and originality that have hardly ever been matched in the field of children’s books, and she could convey all […]
As much as we stereotype the women, we do it with the guys. The guys are all good looking, not too many ugly superheroes. They’ve all got their […]
When I was doing The Invisibles, I was spending all my money from Arkham Asylum doing all the things I’d never done as a Presbyterian boy. You freak […]
Some philosopher – I don’t remember who – his theory was: You’ve got to give kids really beautiful children’s books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because […]
We had one particularly dense Hollywood producer say, ‘You don’t even have to do the book, just stick your name on this idea and I’ll make the film […]
In artists’ eagerness to show off superheroines’ breasts, legs, and buttocks, they’ve become duplicitous and dull, utterly failing to think about what costumes might aid their characters in […]
In Kathmandu there’s this temple with 365 steps, one for each day of the year, and apparently if you can go up in a single breath, you’re guaranteed […]
I’m not sure if there is a nastier, more derisive term in comic art that you can use than ‘house style’. To say an artist is following a […]
Comic artists have been devalued to the point where you could argue public perception is of them as almost secondary creators, and certainly fungible ones in the comic […]
I began to get it through my skull that words and pictures were Yin and Yang. I began thinking that words and pictures, married, might possibly produce a […]