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

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.

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.

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

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.

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends