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

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.

I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.