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

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

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.

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

I lose faith in everything else, but rarely in my work. If I start to get bored, I change it to make it more interesting. I try not to take it too seriously, but I also try to never cheat or hurry things along.

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.