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

Storytelling is one of comics' esthetic hurdles at the moment, which was the novelist's problem 150 years ago: namely, to take comics from storytelling into that of "writing," the major distinction between the two to me being that the former gives one the facts, but the latter tries to recreate the sensation and complexities of life within the fluidity of consciousness and experience. As far as I'm concerned, that's really all I've been trying to do formally for the past decade or more with comics, and it's certainly time-consuming, since it has to be done with drawings, not words.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.

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

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.

Lately, I cant shake the feeling that Ive been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I cant account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.