Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our time and effort exploring those forms and have an enormous investment in the arts. We're all part of the same brotherhood as far as I'm concerned.

There is not one piece of artwork I have ever done that lived up to the vision I had for it in my head. That's why I keep on trying. Maybe someday I'll do it. I don't want to be in the past. I want to get to the next thing.

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.

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