For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.

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

I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.

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

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

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.

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