Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

Maybe you shouldn't be working as a jailer in Guantánamo. Maybe that's why you feel spiritually unhealthy.

I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but.

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

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

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars and that's seen as being a bit grubby. Galleries allow artists to stay relatively divorced from the financial aspects of their trade. I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.