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

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.

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

I really want people to read the book, and bookstores never sold an issue of Eightball because nobody knew what it was.

But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!

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

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.