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

I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.

I never feel there's anything I can't do with comics. There are certain things in comics that you can't do in any other medium: for instance, in Mister Wonderful, Marshall's narration overlaps the events as they're going on. That would be difficult in film; you could blot speech out with a voiceover, but it wouldn't have the same effect. That's always of interest, to see what new things you can do in comics form.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

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

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."