Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores.

Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent!

Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.

Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores.

At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made them artists or writers or law enforcers or attorneys, believe it or not. It's very humbling and gratifying.

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.