I think a lot of the bells and whistles that become available to you would be impossible to resist for some people, so it's just never going to be a real stand-in version of your comic. People will have to take advantage of the ability to have sound, or zoom in and out, whatever it is.

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.

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

If something's a little weird, it's Kafkaesque.

Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it's nice to not have to dread introductions. "What you do for a living?" It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics, but not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it's not pornography, etc. And now people even of our parents' generation are familiar with the term "graphic novel," which is kind of amazing.

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.

Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor.