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

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

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

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.

I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of opportunity when you leave your childhood behind and have this chance to become what you always wanted to be. For me, that was a time when I could have gone many different ways. I was in flux and deciding what kind of person I would become. There's something interesting about the vision of what that will be and the reality of making that happen, and how you really are what you are. Unless you're "in character," it's impossible to get around that.

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

Avatar is a total nerd thing, and yet our popular culture has somehow made all that stuff acceptable.