Jim Woodring
Gary Groth saw my work and offered to publish it. It was a real break, I can tell you. This was in '84... Neat Stuff had just come out.
Frank is my idea of a pure cartoon. A cartoon character who isn't an anthropomorphic man or an animal. That's why there's no language in Frank.
Everyone is a mess inside.
Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
Back in the old days it was easy. You just xeroxed it up and sent it to cat. And she'd do all the promo.
Art speirgelman said that when he was teaching a cartoon course at the SVA in New York, none of his students knew who R. Crumb was. It's like an opera student not knowing Verde.
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.