Something like Persepolis sold well because it’s – she’s not a brilliant stylist, by any means, but it’s about a subject that people wanted to read about.
Seeing comic art on the wall is really interesting as a cartoonist. But I really don’t like people reading my work on a wall. It’s not how it […]
Every professor I had discouraged me and said, “You’ll never make a living from that [comics]; nobody cares, nobody will think of you as an artist.” And now […]
The interesting thing about a comic book is that it’s the world as it exists inside my head, put on paper.
I’m always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don’t – this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.
I like the books very much, and admire Hergé’s work, but having never seen a Tintin volume until I was a teenager, I have no visceral pop culture […]