I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.
Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.
Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.
We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.
The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days.
I spent 10 years in professional politics and eight writing comics, and so I look at it from both sides. I don't understand the logic in being frustrated with a system, so you choose to be a part of the reason why the system is so frustrating. If everybody voted, it wouldn't be this way.
There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.
I would make a comic for Rolling Stone every two weeks, because they're biweekly. And then I would make weekly comics for my weekly papers. It was on two parallel tracks. And then they all got collected in a book.
I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think that the strength of comics [is how they] really allow you to transcend those last barriers between a reader absorbing the information of an experience, and a reader being able to project themselves into the [experience of the] people about whom they're reading.
Really, though, I just want to make the kind of comics I wouldn't be embarrassed to read in public.
I think most other comics are like, "I'm going to do my fkin' act and that'll be that. " With me, it's like, "What if I forget my jokes? What if I can't pull it together? This is going to be a fking disaster!"
Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.
They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets.
I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.
It's like being a stand-up comedian is what leads to being a talk-show host. That life is not cut out for a woman, being on the road at these disgusting hotels. What girls want to do that? Gross guys want to do that. I think that the dearth in female comics is just the nature of the business, but there certainly isn't a dearth anymore, so I think it's just silly.
Comics is different than writing because when you draw something you are trying to visualize it and you are trying to put yourself in that space. And when you're drawing something, all sorts of associations come up in my mind that I never would have thought of otherwise.
Comics don't usually have very long careers, and I'm 22 years into this.
I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.
Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.
I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.