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

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.

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.