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.

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

And also, as a consumer now, it's weird that when I used to go to a book signing I would leave with a stack of pamphlets people had made to show off their work, and now I just leave with business cards where people have the URL to their websites.

I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don't sense to be discriminatory in any way. I think there's this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.

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 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."

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