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.

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.

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.

Anyone could identify with the human aspect of the characters.

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.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.

Where we find young democracies, we need to help them. Where we find the enemy, we need to fight them. And that's exactly the Bush policy.

If you can pinpoint the moments in social media that are really negative experiences, those are the ones you can cut out. And when you do, you recognize how much better your life is.

By being able to play different styles I can get more work. I also learn so much from each of those experiences. It keeps everything from getting stale.

If you don't like how we play, then turn off the tv.