As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

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

Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids.

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