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"I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys."
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"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."

"Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, and the like, you will be left in the dark."

"I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research."

"The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence."

"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."

"Find as much information about your subject as you can."

"I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research."

"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story."
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"I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad."

"I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in."

"It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends."

"I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books."

"People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them."

"It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start."
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