Superman is bigger than the comics that birthed him, bigger even than the films and the television series that have infused him throughout our culture. He will endure […]
I don’t consider them pictures… In reality I’m not drawing. I’m writing a story with a unique type of symbol.
Artists too have their myths. The lies told to artists mirror the lies told to women. Be good enough, be pretty enough, and that guy or gallery will […]
The truth is that the most beloved and the most formative books of my childhood were comic books, specifically Marvel Comics. […] These combinations of art and writing […]
There’s a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, […]
You don’t have to write every comic as if it’s the first comic someone’s ever read, but you do have to write as though you would like new […]
It was a tremendous disservice to the sex lives and self-consciousness of a whole generation of cartoonists that some of the most prominent members of the previous generation […]
I’m insatiably curious, and I enjoy being afraid: the more unsolvable the mystery, the more time I want to spend with it.
The lesson I most mercilessly bludgeon the classes with (besides clarity, clarity, clarity) is to write from the heart and project themselves into the characters whose lives they […]
[…] cartoonists are an especially bunch to work with, in that there’s no money in this. Therefore, all there is is egomania. It’s the currency of the avant-garde.
If it’s your own thing, good enough is never good enough. Good enough doesn’t do anything. Like, if you were able to find out the percentage of cartoonists […]