Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless

I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called "graphic novel" section, because those are harder to replace.

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.