For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema; it's not literature; it's just something else. It has a specific requirement, which is that images are used to tell the story. There are lots of crappy movies, with guns and action and Arnold Schwarzenegger or whatever.

A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

I was a child who had a life, who had hopes, and I wished that a bomb would not fall on my head.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.