I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because you know what their criteria are, and you may not agree with them, but you can glean from their opinion how you will feel about a film.

Often I'll do research just to get a time period correct, but I didn't have to for the '70s... I feel like I can close my eyes and still see it so clearly.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

I knew how to draw all of the different smokestacks on the old trains and all that stuff, and then I realized that if I can draw trains, which is the thing I was probably the least interested in in the world at the time, I can do anything and find a way into it that will be interesting.

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

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

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