It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.

I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.

I think it's harder for each generation. Even I just feel completely separate from teenagers today who have access to the Internet. And I'm amazed that this interest in video games has never gone away. It just keeps growing.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.

That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that's respectable for adults to read.