Dave Sim

“I really think that the only reason that I'm still in business is that I've been so ridiculously stubborn.”

“Cerebus is a mixture of Conan the Barbarian, Howard the Duck, and Foghorn Leghorn.”

“My advice to a young cartoonist is this: don't take advice from old cartoonists.”

“You don't have to be a creative genius to be a cartoonist. You just have to be a genius.”

“I'm not interested in being a 'role model'. I'm interested in being a storyteller.”

“The first thing you have to do is get it on paper. The second thing you have to do is get it on paper. The third thing you have to do is get it on paper.”

“Self-publishing is the last refuge of the untalented. So I'm glad I'm self-published.”

“The opposite of a creator is not a destroyer. The opposite of a creator is a curator.”

“If you're going to fail, fail big. Fail spectacularly.”

“You can't separate the art from the artist. I mean, you can, but you shouldn't.”

“Feminism is a political movement which seeks to establish a matriarchal society, based on the overthrow of the existing patriarchal society.”

“I don't think in terms of legacy. I think in terms of the work.”

“Art is the last bastion of the individual.”