There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

Books are almost always better than the movies made from them, because there are things books do well and things movies do well, but usually those things don't overlap: the same with comics and animation.

I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.