There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex… — James Vance Copy Share
I'm not sure I can name a kind of story that wouldn't work in comics form. It's words and images, and we've been telling… — James Vance Copy Share Image
But knowing that the world had come full circle to our Depression story didn't change the way we worked on it, or encourage us… — James Vance Copy Share Image
I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of… — James Vance Copy Share
If you think of- of the rhetoric of - of modern Democrats, it's often so focused on government that people don't accept - I think a lot of those - a lot of folks on the left don't appreciate that - that people don't want a handout. They don't want government support and they don't, from the right, want people… — James Vance Copy Share
For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which… — James Vance Copy Share Image
Understand, my own politics aren't necessarily interchangeable with what any of my characters believe. You could take each of the characters in On the… — James Vance Copy Share Image
Well, I think it's just remarkable how wrong the conventional wisdom was. It was utterly shocking that Donald Trump won to people who live… — James Vance Copy Share Image
When the president talks about tax reform, he talks about the people who will benefit. He talks about American jobs. He talks about the fact that we're going to be taking money that's overseas and bringing it back to the United States so that it will employ American workers. I think that focus again on the American working and middle… — James Vance Copy Share
There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex set of actions or a complicated emotional passage into a single page there's the sense of satisfaction that I suspect… — James Vance Copy Share
I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who don't know… — James Vance Copy Share Image
What a lot of folks feel - and some of the other commenters have mentioned this - is that there isn't a very clear way for somebody who's working-class, who is middle-income to really get ahead in 21st century America. That implicates our education system. It also implicates our local and regional economies. And I think that folks will expect… — James Vance Copy Share
I think that what was genius about the politics of Trump's campaign is that he focused on workers and he focused on jobs. It… — James Vance Copy Share Image
