Artist Quotes

People are essentially red meat. They are.

Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about.

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

I wanted to be a painter.

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.

I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.

It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.