I originally just wanted to be an artist.
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
That's the biggest part of doing comics You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
I try personally not to be nostalgic.
For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
I don't read much of anything online.
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.
Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
That'll be my claim to fame My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
