One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.

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

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

I guess I consider myself a cartoonist first, though I was "trained" as a painter/printmaker/sculptor. If there's still any resistance to cartooning in the nuts-and-bolts world of acquiring the means of survival, it's probably mostly on the pay scale. If graphic novels are selling really well and are "growing the book market" or whatever it is a businessman would say about them, I don't see it in the remuneration offered by some of the publishers.

Comics is different than writing because when you draw something you are trying to visualize it and you are trying to put yourself in that space. And when you're drawing something, all sorts of associations come up in my mind that I never would have thought of otherwise.

Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25

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