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

I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed.

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

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

The longer I've been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you'll just be disappointed. You can't force them to draw every image that's in your head. Since I'm a horrific artist, I wouldn't want them to anyway. So I definitely give them a lot more leeway now than I did at the beginning.

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

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