Right now anything made for the iPad is like performance art. I'm not interested in performance art. Comics are too hard to make to be done for such a passing blip. When it stabilizes, I'll look at it.

In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true!

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just like having soft clay until it hardens. At least as much of the problem has to do with the decisions of what to represent, how to represent that, and how to reduce it down. The words in the balloons aren't particularly poetic necessarily, but it has the same problem as poetry, which is that one has to do great reduction. And if I tried to draw everything, you'd just have a tangled mess of a picture. The stripping down takes much longer than building up.

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

he technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the "physical book," a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

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