Misery Loves Company. There's A Lot To

I Don't Think I Made Any Really Big Mistakes; It's Just That I Chose Something Difficult To Do. Looking Back, I Suppose I Should Be Grateful That I Got As Far As I Got.

I Felt More Alone That Week Than Any. Sometimes I'd Feel A Body Lying Next To Me Like An Amputee Feels A Phantom Limb. All I Did Was Think About Jennie Gerhardt And Alice Quinn And All The Decades Of People I Had Known. The More I Thought, The More I Felt Like Crying. Life Seemed So Sweet And So Sad, And So Hard To Let Go Of In The End. But Hey, Man, Every Day Is A Brand New Deal, Right? Just Keep On Working And Something's Bound To Turn Up.

I Think You Can Do Anything With Comics That You Could Do In Just About Any Art Form.

American Splendor Is Just An Ongoing Journal. It's An Ongoing Autobiography. I Started It When I Was In My Early 30s, And I Just Keep Going.

It Seemed To Me You Could Do Anything In Comics. So I Started Doing My Thing, Which Is Mainly Influenced By Novelists, Stand-up Comedians, That Sort Of Thing