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

You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium..

I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing..

The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the only one cringi….

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 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….

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days.….