I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.

I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks.

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

Kid ... Comics will break your heart.

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

My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.