Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

I doubt that there are many screenplays of movies that either of us have seen over the past 10 years that were first drafts, or were the work of purely one person. In my world, the actors and the director are all made of paper, and they do exactly what I say. I feel much more in control of the finished work. I feel like the statement that I'm making - even though it's in a medium by no means as glamorous or as widely recognized as film - is at least the statement that I wanted to make. That's a lot more important to me than the allure of working for Hollywood.

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.

If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.