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There Are Certain Comics That Just Seem Like They Have This Perfect Balance Between Dialogue And Image That I Can't Not Read. I'll Want To Save It For Later, And The Next Thing I Know, I'm Reading It. That's What I'm Kind Of Trying To Do With My Comics.

All I Can Say On The Guilford Story - And This Comes More From My Perspective As A Father Than An Artist - Is For Parents And Administrators To Give So Little Value To The Career Of A Public-school Teacher - To Allow Him To Be Cast Aside Without Exhausting Every Avenue To Resolve The Issue - Is An Obscenity Worse Than Anything I've Ever Drawn In My Comics.

I Used To Use Cigarettes To Indicate Somebody's An Outsider A Lot. It Gave Character A Seedy, Disreputable, Almost Suicidal Quality. Now Cigarettes Are So Unused - - You Can't Have Anybody Indoors Smoking. If You Drew That In A Restaurant, You'd Have To Have A Panel Where The Manager Comes Over And Kicks Them Out. Unless It's Set In Europe, You Can't Really Do That. Characters Who Smoke - - It Dates Comics, Somehow.

Comics Seldom Move Me The Way I Would Be Moved By A Novel Or Movie. I Say This As Someone Who Would Rather Read Comics Than Watch Movies, Listen To Music, Anything. But It's Not An Operatic Medium. I Hear Other People Talk About Being Moved To Tears By Comics. I Can't Imagine That.

Face It, You Hate Every Single Boy On The Face Of The Earth!" "that's Not True, I Just Hate All These Obnoxious, Extroverted, Pseudo-bohemian Art-school Losers