Plastic surgery is such a displacement. If people feel good in their skin, then they're beautiful, end of story.

Plastic surgery is such a displacement. If people feel good in their skin, then they're beautiful, end of story.

Comics are a gateway into literature.

When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through listening to Art who was courting me by reading me Little Nemo and Krazy Kat by George Herriman. It was really very effective.

You can't help putting a lot of yourself into the image and when it's printed the reader can spend hours getting it out.

The reason I started to do comics for kids, the real reason is because it worked for me.

Art uses many different styles, but his voice is very consistent. He's always concise and clever and funny. That's true of somebody like Chris Ware, who has an emotional quality to his work - but it's boiled down and it's very sober and spare. Each word has great weight. Comics are not just pictures, but it is graphic design in the sense that they are composed and architected in a specific way.