I almost always have work, I get to travel, and I can provide for the people around me. But it never gets easier. That’s the only lesson I […]
My job search has always been done by attitude. So-and-so got a job drawing some album covers, I called the 20 or so bands I knew and askedif […]
It’s been my experience that the economy has very little effect on an artist as long as he-she doesn’t fall into the trap of relying on clients to […]
Make mistakes. Surprise ourselves. Try anything else. Fail. Fail better. And succeed in ways we never would have imagined a year or a week ago.
I was very talented, I was a trailblazer and I was a fuckface and an asshole. To me they’re all the same thing, I wear all those names […]
I really think comics are more fun when they play to their strengths, and do the things that movies can’t do, and go to places in the imagination […]
Go to Germany kids. Maybe Budapest if you’re not Jewish. But this is something that I’m remembering from interviewing Al Hirschfeld. He had lived in Paris for a […]
If you want to sell things, then sell them–send them to famous cartoonists, influential publishers, and comics critics who are interested in selling things. One influential Tweet by […]
dear william stanhope: most important decision i ever made came at age 9…i was collecting Buck Rogers comic strips, 1929, when my 5th grade classmates made fun of […]
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 […]
Since I have a comic store, it’s easy to have a display up front. If I make a pitch to someone asking if they want to read my […]