I wouldn't classify television as "cool," because to me anything that involves the reader's consciousness to drive and carry a story is an "active" medium, and anything that sort of just pours into the eyeballs and ears is the opposite.

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense ... in a way no other medium can.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

Fundamentally, I have no idea how the world works, though I am trying to figure it out.

Cartooning isn't really drawing, any more than talking is singing... The possible vocabulary of comics is by definition unlimited, the tactility of an experience told in pictures outside the boundaries of words, and the rhythm of how these drawings 'feel' when read is where the real art resides.