It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.

I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future.

I have enough friends who are gamers. I actually enjoy watching them play because of the visuals and the storytelling of the games. I just love being able to go on an adventure and games are just so sophisticated now that you can just get lost in a world for 20 hours and just be someone else in a very visceral, emotional way. And that's just fascinating.

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

CALVIN: Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.