I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

I tried to, from my very early years, I've been an inveterate movie goer and still am and I, I love the medium. So what I, what I draw and what I'm still doing, is part of that particular orientation.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

I've never done anything half-heartedly. It's the reason my comics did well. It's the reason my comics were drawn well. I can't do anything bad.

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.

I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge - what kind of monster would fascinate people?