When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

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

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.

When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.

There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.

I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and just say, "Don't think of me as an Asian cartoonist. Just think of me as a cartoonist."