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.

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.

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

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.

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

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.

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.