I think that cartoons have a lot more power than they're given credit for.

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.

When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.