There's always been this feedback between comics and films. But I think that if you take that analogy too far, if you only see comic books in terms of films, then eventually the best we can end up with is films that don't move. It would make us a poor relation to the movie industry.

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.