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.

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

I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.

Surely comics require more effort on the part of the reader than movies or television. I'm always learning new things you can do with comics that wouldn't work in any other medium, and often they require the need to process a lot of dense information. Of course, the trick is to make the complicated seem effortless and spontaneous.

I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

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

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.