I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.

I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.

As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

It's hard to tell if anyone's interested in reading a serialized story. But it's interesting to put in a cliffhanger each week. That was popular in old comic strips. They'd write a weekend story different from the daily strip. So people follow one story day to day, and a separate story on weekends. If you read them, you think "I'll read two more." Then you're like "I gotta find out!" And you read 500 more.

I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

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