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.

I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.

There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.

Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.