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.
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
Anyone should be able to read comics.
Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.
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.
Most people don't know how to tell stories.
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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.
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.
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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.
