There must be 3000 cartoonists in North America. I included 85 in this book [An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories – Vol. II], and if […]
The writers are getting to be so esoteric that you pick up a [comic] book and you have to get 5 or 6 pages in before you know […]
The cartoon art form – the art of treating an image impressionistically – will not fade. It will keep growing in popularity, because a cartoon is able to […]
Check out those shoes. She looks like she stepped out of the middle of somebody’s blues. She looks like the sunday comics. She thinks she’s Brenda Starr.
I’ve always liked to leave resonant spaces, gaps and hints in stories, where readers can do their own work and find clues or insert their own wild and […]
I don’t intend to get too flag-wavingly patriotic here, but it has to be said that British comics creators stand amongst the greatest in the world.
Superman can only be weakened by exposure to Kryptonite – that is, a relic of his old world. For a long time, Americans had felt that that European […]
Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn’t have any meaning for them if they didn’t. That’s why I draw cartoons. […]
We’re all superheroes in our own stories and in comics we get to see our heroes wrestle with Guilt, Fear, Commitment, Love, Loss, in very direct, imaginative and […]
One thing I like about comics is, if you need to, you can really get away with just the basics in terms of materials.
Comic books are a way for people to get away from the real world. They don’t want to be reminded of wars or tragedies or economic catastrophes.