My job search has always been done by attitude. So-and-so got a job drawing some album covers, I called the 20 or so bands I knew and askedif […]
It’s been my experience that the economy has very little effect on an artist as long as he-she doesn’t fall into the trap of relying on clients to […]
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 […]
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 never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I’d keep my job.
Go to Germany kids. Maybe Budapest if you’re not Jewish. But this is something that I’m remembering from interviewing Al Hirschfeld. He had lived in Paris for a […]
No idea has proven more damaging to the comics industry than the myth that its professionals – not just creators, but retailers, even distributor – work for love […]
If you want to sell things, then sell them–send them to famous cartoonists, influential publishers, and comics critics who are interested in selling things. One influential Tweet by […]
I don’t normally feel like being a woman in this field is enough to justify having to answer questions about it all the time, most frequently: ‘What is […]
It seems like cartoonists and any freelance craftsperson or artist has to constantly be skirting around the outside of society, trying to find random ways of making money […]
If I’m happy and healthy, does it have a negative effect on my comedic work? And the answer is that I don’t know. And I don’t particularly care. […]
It was gratifying when I went back to Hawaii for my first [Usagi Yojimbo] book signing. It was crowded. There were kids everywhere. My Dad said, “Okay, I […]