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.

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?

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

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

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.