I feel like the traditional patron system meant that you would kiss the ass of one rich person and then hide all of the financial goings-on of your work, and you could pretend you were pure.

I think treating a model as nothing but a collection of tendons is done to lessen people's discomfort with the fact that they are looking at a naked person. They think it makes the audience and model more comfortable. But that was not the case when I modeled and I find that others agree. I feel that the sexual component is essential. I feel it is much more objectifying to be a table than a beautiful naked girl.

New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

Mainstream feminism might remember that the war on women always starts with the war on whores.