I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

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

There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas.

I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.

If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.

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