When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.
I'm a better polemicist in prose.
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.