The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

Space does for comics what time does for film!

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

When you have no real power, go public—really public. The public is where the real power is.

There is no pain and there are no sorrows. They no longer have permission to live in my today or my tomorrow.

If love wasn't conditional, everybody would be in love with everybody.

It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.

I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

An interview is like a minefield.

I love wearing trackies to lounge around the house in and the strange thing is, it doesn’t matter how many new ones I get I still tend to feel most comfortable in my old ones.

Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic.