I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.

Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing

When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.