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

I'm still digesting the '90s. It takes some time to get perspective.

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.

To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.

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

It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the '80s and think back.

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