Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist

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.

Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes

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

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

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.