Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

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

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?