Quotes
I have a library of motifs and things in my head and I just draw on it.
I get up early and write that stuff down and enjoy doing it and enjoy reading it afterwards. It's a damn sight easier than drawing comics, and to me, much more valuable. It's so very pure.
I can't make a living on comics, but I do make a living cartooning, doing freelance work of all sorts. That's great. And recently I've been doing stuff for Microsoft.
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.
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.