I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.

It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as "my" direction. I think, "Oh, it's been tainted. Now I've got to do something new." There's nothing worse than working on your own stuff and thinking that someone else is following you along.

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

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 tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.