You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most boring thing in the world. But drawing comics isn't like shooting a movie. You can shoot a movie in a few days and be done with it, but drawing a comic takes years and years... That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s is still the '60s, in that there's still kind of a playfulness and inventiveness in terms of design and the things that were going on in the culture. The second half, it got much more commodified. It's possibly the ugliest era of architecture and clothes and design in the entire 20th century, from 1975 to '81 or '82.

I don't read much of anything online.

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