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

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

It keeps me moving when I see people doing stuff that I see as "my" direction. I think, "Oh, it's been tainted. Now I've got to do something new." There's nothing worse than working on your own stuff and thinking that someone else is following you along.

The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

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

It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that inspires you the most. I think the thing that bogs down a lot of artists is that you're kind of stuck drawing in a style you've developed.