I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

A good, stinky French cheese or a good Stilton. These are things I really, really love. Dessert I can obviously live without.

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.