In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.

Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

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

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.

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.