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

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

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.

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

My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.