When I Come Up Against The Real

I Still Can't Spend A Lot Of Money On Records At Collector Prices. There's Something In Me That Just Won't Allow Me To Do That. But I Will Trade My Artwork, Which I Know Is Worth Thousands Of Dollars.

As A Kid Growing Up In The 1950s I Became Acutely Aware Of The Changes Taking Place In American Culture And I Must Say I Didn't Much Like It. I Witnessed The Debasement Of Architecture, And I Could See A Decline In The Quality Of Things Like Comic Books And Toys, Things Made For Kids. Old Things Seemed To Have More Life, More Substance, More Humanity In Them.

I Draw The Line At Some Things. Some Things I Won't Do For Any Amount Of Money. Like For Instance, There's A Couple Of Ceos Of Very Large Corporations That Offered Me Lots Of Money To Do Special Pictures For Them. And I Just Refused To Do That. Even If It Was A Million Dollars I Wouldn't Do It.

I Lose Patience With Long Stories. I Get People Who Go, "crumb, Do Some Long Stories, Do A Graphic Novel." Novel-schmovel.

The Fine-art World Knows Very Little About The Cartoon World.