Occupation: Cartoonist Birth: February 15, 1948
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….
Right now anything made for the iPad is like performance art. I'm not interested in performance art. Comics are too hard to make to be done for such ….
Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it..
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….
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking i….
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….
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….
Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything..
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….
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 ….
I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mo….
Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian..
I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were ….
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 ….
Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult.
A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter..
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….
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….