I've done my job extremely well. My only beef is that a lot of people have put their fingers in whatever I've done and tried to screw it up, and I've always resented that.

I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.

It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.