I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].

It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week. That was popular in old comic strips. They'd write a weekend story different from the daily strip. So people follow one story day to day, and a separate story on weekends. If you read them, you think "I'll read two more." Then you're like "I gotta find out!" And you read 500 more.

I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.

I think politics has an influence on my work now, perhaps more so than when I was a childless young man, but I hope never to deal with these kinds of issues in anything more than a covert manner. I'm more interested in figuring out what I think than in pronouncing my views to the world.

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.