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.

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 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.

HereI'm here-the snow falling.

Some say this country's just out looking for a fight, after 9/11 man, I'd have to say that's right.

All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

Everything you want and you don't have, you get from other people.

No matter what I have done, no matter how I have failed, no matter how week I have been, no matter how inadequate I am, God has not changed. He has not failed.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself.