I originally just wanted to be an artist.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

I never know if a book is crazy or not. There's that fear - this is the one that will end it all.