It's a mystery to me why comics have been so despised for so long. Obviously, it has to do with the history of the medium - arising out of cheaply-re….

I don't think comics use iconic forms - or they don't have to. But that makes them even more "cool," if I understand the idea. One has to be quite in….

My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space, and communicate information. My str….

I can certainly be surprised by turns a story takes, but usually not once I'm actually in the writing/drawing stage. In the plotting stage, anything ….

When you draw in a tight, controlled style, you open yourself up to - in my case, my own - criticism that things aren't quite right. If room is drawn….

When I was living in Mexico, I started reassessing my drawing style, and plunged into a period of doing exercises and research to develop a new way t….

Women’s voices, LGBT voices, and the voices of people of color are all needed in any art form if we want to explore the true possibilities of that ar….

I haven't really lost faith in my work - other than for quite short periods when the work is harder than usual - but I have hit points where I want t….

I don't use recurring characters. I do get very interested my characters while I'm working with them, and I find the process of fitting them into a s….

Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed to realize….

Why does the need to explain comics still exist? Because that prejudice still exists. It's fading, but it's still very strong. It's important to keep….