But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.

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

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

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