It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where I'm not the best judge of my own work.

I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.

If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.