Occupation: Cartoonist Birth: June 10, 1960
It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career..
Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell..
Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. ….
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard..
To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths..
There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future..
By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning..
My first influences were superhero artists..
A medium is a bridge between two minds..
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me..
When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and in….
Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again..
Space does for comics what time does for film!.
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be..
If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for tha….
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction..
Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was writing….
The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas..
The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn'….
As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understa….
All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form..