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….

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..

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 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….

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….

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 ….

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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

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