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

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 have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

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.

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

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

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