I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.

Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent!

We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our time and effort exploring those forms and have an enormous investment in the arts. We're all part of the same brotherhood as far as I'm concerned.

At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made them artists or writers or law enforcers or attorneys, believe it or not. It's very humbling and gratifying.

I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

Comic book companies are like comic book villains they keep coming back after they die.

Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores.