I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.
I don't read much of anything online.
I never feel there's anything I can't do.
I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.
I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
Avatar is a total nerd thing and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
Face it you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE I just hate all these obnoxious extroverted pseudo-bohemian art-school losers
Yeah I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].
The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged chain-smoking intellectual adventurer guy who's really serious but also really funny and mean...
Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody and I've never seen that happen in my life.
The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal healthy activities.
In some ways I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think 'Oh my God I'm late for a math test!' But then I say 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.
Dear Josh we stopped by to fuck you but you didn't answer the door. Therefore you are gay. Sincerely Tiffany and Amber.
Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob.
You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean Christ how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?
In a movie you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
I really want people to read the book and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.
Even if I only had 10 readers I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
I had no television when I was little just a stack of old beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.
I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.
Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct but I didn't have to for the '70s. I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.
I'm always hiding the books in my closet and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.
Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
I love the medium and I love individual comics but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.
That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
I must have been 3 years old or less and I remember paging through these comics trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words so I made up my own stories.
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph even if it's connecting with you it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.
I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
C'mon let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!
For example I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
I was a very fearful little kid and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
For me the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.
Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
When people get things for free they tend to not take them as seriously.
I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.
When I go back and reread the stuff I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.
I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
As soon as I'm finished with it it feels like an impersonal project. Like "Well I did another book.
You need to be like turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.
He always accuses me of trying to look'cool' I was like 'everybody tries to look cool I just happen to be successful.
Before I could read I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.
Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!
Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?
People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
I try personally not to be nostalgic.
I originally just wanted to be an artist.
Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.
I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head and always falling short.