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" Anyone should be able to read comics. "
Read
Able
Should
" Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't. "
Tried
Liking
Jimmy
" At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe. "
American
Point
Pretty
" But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches. "
Things
Now
Talking
" Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good. "
Kind
Good
Better
" Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes. "
Conservative
Fun
You
" Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own. "
Think
Though
I Think
" I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel. "
Great
Written
Think
" If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel. "
Go
Way
Good
" I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful. "
Many
Out
Better
" I'm a better polemicist in prose. "
Prose
Better
" I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody. "
Any
Work
Doing
" I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip. "
Radical
Strip
Actually
" I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me. "
I Think
Good
Me
" I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great. "
Here
Think
Better
" I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society. "
American
Generation
Think
" It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare. "
Valid
Like
Position
" Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most. "
Stress
Me
Money
" Most people don't know how to tell stories. "
Stories
People
Most
" On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet. "
Ground
Most
State
" Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else. "
Someone
Thinking
Meeting
" Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away. "
Nothing
Right
Road
" The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up. "
Know
Walk
You
" The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country. "
Country
Commitment
Say
" The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron. "
Step
Saying
First Step
" There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair. "
Ruined
Tradition
Sources
" Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else. "
Trying
Nothing
Country
" Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s. "
Things
Day
Involved
" When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. "
Think
Storytelling
Together
" When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information. "
You
Based
Information
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