It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week. That was popular in old comic strips. They'd write a weekend story different from the daily strip. So people follow one story day to day, and a separate story on weekends. If you read them, you think "I'll read two more." Then you're like "I gotta find out!" And you read 500 more.

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

I knew how to draw all of the different smokestacks on the old trains and all that stuff, and then I realized that if I can draw trains, which is the thing I was probably the least interested in in the world at the time, I can do anything and find a way into it that will be interesting.

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.

When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.