A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.

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.

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

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.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.

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.