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

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

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

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

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

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.

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