I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.