In the beginning of the century, in 1900, the newspapers in this country began running comic strips, and they were called jokes or funnies. The word comics developed later, but it is that that began...

The term “comics” long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. “Sequential Art” is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because...

I believe that in spite of this courageous, not comic but tragic book by Will Eisner the story is hardly over. Yet it is a story very much worth telling, for one must fight the...

All professionals should teach at some time in their career because they are obliged to pass on what they have learned.

Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will have to address itself more to content. . . . I see 22 year olds draw massive Schwarzenegger types, outfitted...

Memory is a very amorphous thing. It is selective and shaped by emotion . . . people are constantly in pursuit of the details of their past because it is from that they determine their...

I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form – in this medium – and learn to give it your support because...

The great depression left a mark on all of the civilized world. It was a defining moment like a giant earthquake that reminds us of how little control we have over human destiny — despite...

Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story – an idea – is a very old form of graphic communication. It began with the hieroglyphics...

You can’t talk about heartbreak to a kid.

In comics, images are generally impressionistic. Usually, they are rendered with economy in order to facilitate their usefulness as a language. Because experience precedes analysis, the intellectual digestive process is accelerated by the imagery provided...

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

I’ve spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a...

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you’re different in a society, you’re funny.

The work we do is as demanding as any of the great painters because nothing that happens on the page of a comic is accidental. It has to be imagined first in your mind before...

Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience; this was all the residue...

I did not have the dreams that the other artists working with me had, of ‘moving uptown,’ becoming an illustrator or a gallery painter, or those others who said, ‘I’m going to go uptown and...

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

It’s very important for me to maintain contact with the reader, because I’m writing to someone, and I’m desperately eager to achieve believability.