Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

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.

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.

As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We transfer light and power to someone else.

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.

It's not how good you can play when you play good. It's how good you play when you play bad and we can play as bad as anyone in the country.

There's a Marvel superhero called Black Bolt & his real name is Blackagar Boltagon & that really tells you a lot about superhero comics.

My mother never forgave my father

The hip hop community is not at fault here - I'm definitely not blaming them. But, that can't be the only view of manhood for our young men.