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.

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

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

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.

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.

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.