That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being h….

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child..

I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all tha….

If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window..

I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or….

I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience..

Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some of it was just an ….

A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirtee….

I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don't sense to be discriminatory in any way. I think there's th….

There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, lik….

I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world. If I had any other skills that were ….

I certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that I drew myself without eye….

I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown up my whole life reading comics and I know ever….

I do think it's getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable. The idea of trying….

Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it's nice to not have to dread introductions. "What you do for a living?" It used t….

And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the busi….

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment..

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 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..

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….

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