He [Will Eisner] sought for comics to be next to prose, where I always thought of comics as being another scrappy form, messing in popular culture.
The idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as […]
Lately I think a new attitude has prevailed that comics aren’t inherently an Art form, but that some cartoonists are genuinely artists.
Sometimes a comic can be a great thing because it’s a comic, not because it’s almost as good as a movie, or as good as a prose novel.
I have feelings way in the back of my mind that come out in little pictures and funny little sayings.
People often compare comics scripting to screenwriting, but I always think comics scripts are like writing pulp poetry.
My favorite comics are mine – I’m the only one writing the plots complicated and multi-faceted enough to rivet my attention.
An editor is always going to be more impressed by a good story that just stands on its own, then they are by the 1000th Batman idea they […]
A successful comic strip must engage the fantasy life of many different people, which is why interpreting that work tell us a great deal about ourselves.
Comics were for children and for intellectually subnormal people, whereas graphic novel sounds like a much more sophisticated proposition.
I definitely want to keep being a cartoonist, but I wouldn’t mind branching out and doing other stuff, because comics are such a thankless, pointless existence.
Almost all popular comics, alternative or otherwise, is that they’re almost always about either kids; or young, horny adults; or horribly socially inept older adults. I defy you […]
Comic books are what novels used to be – an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal – and if the highbrows are right, they’re a form perfectly suited […]