Your vigor for life appalls me.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.