It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.

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

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

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

I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commercial culture.

I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.