What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to concentrate.

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.

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.

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.

Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.

One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.