Occupation: Cartoonist Birth: April 14, 1961
I try to employ a different strategy for each story. Often, I'll have a specific look in mind before I even have the story to go with it. I'm not so ….
I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's ….
It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw co….
You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assh….
Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!.
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing..
I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp..
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of..
In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minu….
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working..
I have a very low tolerance for animation. I'm used to the perfect integrity you get from drawing your own comics. There's something about that that ….
The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost l….
Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-sch….
I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco..
That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and tha….
I never know if a book is crazy or not. There's that fear - this is the one that will end it all..
I originally just wanted to be an artist..
I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace..
Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not li….
I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of dai….
I never feel there's anything I can't do with comics. There are certain things in comics that you can't do in any other medium: for instance, in Mist….