I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I’m doing a parody.

I’m a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

I think jazz is good, but I don’t enjoy it. It’s not for me.

Most people don’t know how to tell stories.

It’s a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

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.

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone’s apartment and they don’t know you, but they’ve taped one of your pieces up.

I don’t think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

I’m a better polemicist in prose.

Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country’s economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush’s.