Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

There is something about the medium [in comics] that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually reading. You're reading pictures, but you are also looking at them. It's a sort of combined activity that I can't really think of any other medium having, other than, say, a foreign film when you are reading and seeing. It allows for all sorts of associations that might not come up with just words or just pictures.

Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

Lately, I cant shake the feeling that Ive been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I cant account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.