My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.

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

I think a lot of creators are attracted to those toys they got to play with when they were young, and everyone wants to write a Superman story or a Batman story or a Spider-Man story. I don't know, if it's been successful for me, it should be successful for anyone. "Hit the ground with your feet running" is the secret of breaking new characters when it seems like no one else is having any luck.

How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that..." "Everythings going to be alright.

I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It's a really weird job but I enjoy it.

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.