The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.

So if you think this is going to save you...If you think anything is going to save you...Please consider this your final warning.

Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.

Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.