That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a spe….

People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are..

People for whom art is religion can say, "What I love about art is that it points to a higher reality." Well, fine, but the time comes when the smart….

I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and….

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one..

I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is a men….

I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had a….

To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions ….

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interes….

When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think is good, if I can become an obscure cult artist….

When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the ….

I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don't mean I couldn't write as well a….

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a liz….

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders..

I never experienced anything in my natural state that was as shocking as salvia divinorum`s effects. The condensed extract is murder. I'd smoked some….

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know abo….

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say..

Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it sta….

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers..

Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great..

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime..