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

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.

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

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

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'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.