Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.

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.

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it that is unlike anything else. It literally is like music. You hear it in your mind as you read it.

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

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