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

Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

There are certain comics that just seem like they have this perfect balance between dialogue and image that I can't not read. I'll want to save it for later, and the next thing I know, I'm reading it. That's what I'm kind of trying to do with my comics.

As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

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