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.

I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

Basically, I know there's no turning back the clock, and it's sort of pointless to mourn what has passed, but I don't know if the alternatives now really replicate the learning experience that I had, in terms of what I gained from making mini-comics. There were certain components of it that are completely gone because of being able to just throw stuff up on your blog the minute you're done with it.

I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic; there's been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn't make a definitive statement about this, but my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.