Cartooning is a lonely job. You have to sit by yourself in a room, masturbate and fool around with your stuff. Let the whole thing fester. You know. […]
I always get these letters from kids who say, “I’m thinking of doing comics as a career.” And I just think if you even articulate that thought, you […]
Something like Persepolis sold well because it’s – she’s not a brilliant stylist, by any means, but it’s about a subject that people wanted to read about.
If I had any advice to give to somebody your age, I would say do something else for a while. Like, take a couple of years off to […]
Seeing comic art on the wall is really interesting as a cartoonist. But I really don’t like people reading my work on a wall. It’s not how it […]
Every professor I had discouraged me and said, “You’ll never make a living from that [comics]; nobody cares, nobody will think of you as an artist.” And now […]
The interesting thing about a comic book is that it’s the world as it exists inside my head, put on paper.
The average monthly comic is quite an expensive commodity now, and it can be unsatisfying if you haven’t read the issue before or are unable to get hold […]
There’s nothing more demoralizing than to be presented with a script that a writer has knocked off in an afternoon and that you then have to spend the […]
Comic book stores have a big, big image problem. They need to put comics that are for non-fans in the front of the store. Their regular customers are […]
I think someone who says “I am doing this to appeal to women” is already making a mistake. I think what appeals to women is good comics.
When it’s not notable and it’s not special to be a woman in comics – when it’s just normal. That will be the mark of us having come […]
When it comes down to it, comics are one of the most labor-intensive and skills-intensive art forms there are.