I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

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

You have to find the tone of the piece and modulate that. There are ways to indicate that - I try to incorporate the biggest range I can within the story, going from humorous to serious without it being jarring. That's the hardest part, to keep that balance. It requires being constantly aware of where you are in the story. You can't really do that in a movie: You can't slightly modulate the tone by the way the character's eyeballs look in one certain scene.

I just try to make comics for myself, try to give it some kind of unity throughout. That often involves tiny details. I'm never sure what's going to be obvious or what nobody will ever notice. I put stuff in my comics that I thought was blatantly obvious, and nobody noticed. And things that I think are buried in the background, everybody gets it. So I try to be consistently aware of every part of the frame.