I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep. No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.