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" Anyone should be able to read comics. "

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" I'm a better polemicist in prose. "

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" I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody. "

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" I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't. "

" At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe. "

" Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s. "

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" 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. "

" If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel. "

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" I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful. "

" 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. "

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" It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare. "

" 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. "

" Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own. "

" 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. "

" Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most. "

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" I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip. "

" The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron. "

" 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. "

" I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society. "