Anyone could identify with the human aspect of the characters.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.

I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know.

When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.

I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.

Once we got going on the Fantagraphics version of Love and Rockets, our encouragement was constant. People wanted us to do more, do more. Thirty years later, here we are.

It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks.

Horror is the removal of masks.

Hurt not the earth neither the sea nor the trees.

I'm attracted to guys who are really confident and make conversation.

There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings.

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.

I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

She was so fat that her belly button makes an echo.

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature