I almost always have work, I get to travel, and I can provide for the people around me. But it never gets easier. That’s the only lesson I […]
The sincerity, stubbornness, purity and pollution of art seems to be useful and essential and some kind of mediated divine invasion.
Graphic fiction can be great art. Unfortunately, it is becoming both pretentious and simplistic. Time to go back to the sketchpad.
OK, I’m the Cowardly Cartoonist… As a Cowardly Cartoonist, I can’t make some glib comment like that, you know? I have to, like, make fun of myself. So […]
I don’t have much choice in what I do, so I guess I’ll just keep writing and drawing and then I’ll regret everything and die.
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 […]
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 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 […]
When I was writing The Invisibles, I thought, If I’m going to be sitting in the house writing all day, then on weekends I want to look like […]
I don’t have bad blood with Marvel per se, aside from the fact that I think they’re a poorly run company that is partially destroying the comic book […]
Everyone doesn’t like their early work. It’s just a gut reaction, feeling sick. I can’t look at them or think about them.
I don’t really work with people who give me feedback [on my comics], because I just want to do what I want to do.
I like people to look at my stuff, and then again I’m always surprised and happy when they want to. I feel like that with everything I do. […]