In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories 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.

To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.

We all have a "Life Résumé" and regret should not be part of it. Those embarrassing FML moments are all considered experience.

The great, like stars, are not afraid of dark times for that is when they shine the brightest.

Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.

If the news is that important, it will find me.

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

Did I mention how good it feels to be a bitcoin millionaire?

Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva Perón and Josephine Baker.

Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.