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

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

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

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.