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.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

There's a lot of dark stuff from the '80s that we don't think about.

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

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 appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.