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

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.

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

You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.

In terms of e-books, though, I haven't quite gotten to the bottom of it yet, but for some reason everybody I know seems to want to engage me on that topic, or convert me. I think there are a lot of people who just want to hear me embrace e-books or finally say, 'OK, I bought an iPad and it's awesome!" There are a lot of people who would get a kick out of it, that's for sure.

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.