Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

Comics are not a genre, but a developing language.

I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be "seen through," or, even worse, instantly hated.

I arrived at my way of "working" as a way of visually approximating what I feel the tone of fiction to be in prose versus the tone one might use to write biography; I would never do a biographical story using the deliberately synthetic way of cartooning I use to write fiction. I try to use the rules of typography to govern the way that I "draw," which keeps me at a sensible distance from the story as well as being a visual analog to the way we remember and conceptualize the world.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.