For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working.

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

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

I don't read much of anything online.

Writing screenplays is very freeing from what you can do in comics in a lot of ways. You can change things around. I can take great delight in writing 40 pages, then just pressing delete and getting rid of it and not thinking about it ever again. Whereas in comics, if I had put that kind of effort into it, I couldn't go on.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of opportunity when you leave your childhood behind and have this chance to become what you always wanted to be. For me, that was a time when I could have gone many different ways. I was in flux and deciding what kind of person I would become. There's something interesting about the vision of what that will be and the reality of making that happen, and how you really are what you are. Unless you're "in character," it's impossible to get around that.