Doing one’s work and eschewing more financially beneficial options might seem groundbreaking to people who are used to consuming mass marketed things, but in the world of indie […]
Art in comics should always be intertwined with the narrative so that neither can function on their own. If the art only compliments or shows what the narrative […]
Autobiographical work is inherently fairly self-centered, but hearing that it helped someone get through something alleviates the guilt, which is also a self-centered thing to say, but it’s […]
I don’t remember who said this, but the more simplistic a drawing, the easier it is for readers to project themselves into it. When the art is overly […]
If you ask someone who works in comedy what is the most difficult part of being professionally funny, many, if not most of them, will tell you it’s […]
If I’m happy and healthy, does it have a negative effect on my comedic work? And the answer is that I don’t know. And I don’t particularly care. […]
Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river […]
I wake up every morning at 7:30 and read the paper and drink chocolate milk, then take my daughter to school. I run errands during the day, and […]
You have to make peace with your limitations, with what you can do. Then think about what you’d really like to do, which is the hard part. You […]
Style is a capitalist invention. It’s a trademark. It’s very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn’t my first concern. I […]
All of my characters take on a life of their own, and I have notions as to what happens to each of them. Enid and Rebecca talk occasionally, […]
Style is a funny word – we all think we know what it means because we look at a cartoonist’s work and we see the evidence of it […]
Comics has a bad relationship with hip hop, I always say that it’s a one way relationship. Hip hop loves comics more than the comics community as a […]