A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter..

I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenome….

One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with ….

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything..

What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it because it seems ….

If you're going to visit and re-visit a book, it has more reason to be a real book, because of that ability to concentrate and that relationship that….

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not jus….

What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to concen….

Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it..

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult.

Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly, sometimes I'm drawing on paper , so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just like having soft clay….

Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian..

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out o….

I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I thi….

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps..

I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some k….

I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders..

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies..

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz..

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life..

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy..