I Never Know If A Book Is

Usually When I Put Together A Book Like This Death-ray Hardcover Or That Ghost World Special Edition, Then I Have To Reread It And See If There Is Anything I Want To Change Or Any Re-coloring I Want To Do. That's When I'm Faced With The Actual Work. When I'm Working, I'm Too Close To It. I'm Sort Of Inside, And I Can't See It At All. So When I Have That Experience Of Rereading It Years Later, It's Jarring.

Alfred Hitchcock Talked About Planning Out His Movies So Meticulously That When He Was Actually Shooting And Editing, It Was The Most Boring Thing In The World. But Drawing Comics Isn't Like Shooting A Movie. You Can Shoot A Movie In A Few Days And Be Done With It, But Drawing A Comic Takes Years And Years... That's The Biggest Part Of Doing Comics: You Have To Create Stuff That Makes You Want To Get Out Of Bed Every Morning And Get To Work.

Everybody Just Lets The Media Do Their Thinking For Them... That's Why You'll Never Hear Any Reggae On The Radio!

More And More, I Tried To Make Comics In The Way I Like To Read Comics, And I Found That When I Read Comics That Are Really Densely Packed With Text, It May Be Rewarding When I Finally Do Sit Down And Read It, But It Never Is Going To Be The First I'm Going To Read, And I Never Am Fully Excited To Just Sit Down And Read That Comic.

If You Think About It Enough To Have A Really Articulate Answer, You're Not Doing It Right. That's How I Feel About Art. If Your Thought Process Could Take You To Knowing Exactly What You're Doing And Why, There Would Be No Point In Making The Art. It Would Become Like Propaganda. It's More Nebulous Than That.