The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

Neutrality and boredom are the weapons of the state.

I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.

One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is.

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

Watch carefully the magic that occurswhen you give a person enough comfort to just be themselves.

It does no good to regret the past... yet regret remains just the same.

Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.

One falls in and out of love, but when one loves that is an entirely different matter, for that lasts through life and beyond, and is a rare thing.

I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead.

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

Ach, Rangers are alright, but they still haven’t invented blue grass.

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

The tender pressure of his lips soothed her, like a warm drink in the dead of the winter, when every part of her felt so cold.