I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do..

Basically, I know there's no turning back the clock, and it's sort of pointless to mourn what has passed, but I don't know if the alternatives now re….

I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible..

I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites. But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I'd read it while I ate my….

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their charact….

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident..

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents..

When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and….

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward ….

I think it's harder for each generation. Even I just feel completely separate from teenagers today who have access to the Internet. And I'm amazed th….

I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and ju….

I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different..

If something's a little weird, it's Kafkaesque..

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page..

I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out..

Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white c….

I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic; there's been a lot of progress recently. A….

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better..

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address..

Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on the art whe….

I'm always pointing things out to native New Yorkers that I think are weird about this place and their culture and all that. But I feel like my frien….