I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era.

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.