But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.

To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses.

Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

Sometimes what works in a book is too "in your face" when converted to the big screen and sound.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.

In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.