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

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.

I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.