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.

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

You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.

It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.

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

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.