I used to pile on the detail, which was probably a way of hedging my bets while I was working out my own way of doing things. I've cut it back over t….

The issue that's really, really concerning is that you have eight million prime age men who have dropped out of the labor force, folks who aren't eve….

There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices a….

For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining poi….

I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work w….

Well, I think it's just remarkable how wrong the conventional wisdom was. It was utterly shocking that Donald Trump won to people who live on the coa….

I really do think Trump's election comes down to respect. It comes down to being gracious. It comes down to really showing compassion for the problem….

When the president talks about tax reform, he talks about the people who will benefit. He talks about American jobs. He talks about the fact that we'….

One of the things I really worry about is that if you don't see middle class wage growth, if you don't see the economy in certain areas of the countr….

I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself t….

If you think of- of the rhetoric of - of modern Democrats, it's often so focused on government that people don't accept - I think a lot of those - a ….

But knowing that the world had come full circle to our Depression story didn't change the way we worked on it, or encourage us to change our thrust. ….

My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students in Mississip….

I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who don't know history very we….

Understand, my own politics aren't necessarily interchangeable with what any of my characters believe. You could take each of the characters in On th….

I'm not sure I can name a kind of story that wouldn't work in comics form. It's words and images, and we've been telling all kinds of stories with th….

I can't blame anyone for being pessimistic when they look around, after all the blood spilled and energy spent to gain ground for working people in t….

What a lot of folks feel - and some of the other commenters have mentioned this - is that there isn't a very clear way for somebody who's working-cla….

The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book. The parallels I'm ….

I think that what was genius about the politics of Trump's campaign is that he focused on workers and he focused on jobs. It wasn't about the wealthy….

There is a need for more economic growth, for more job growth. But there is a need in some people for them to recognize that they have a role in maki….