That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything else, and that I give them everything I can to make them exist as actual people.

There are certain comics that just seem like they have this perfect balance between dialogue and image that I can't not read. I'll want to save it for later, and the next thing I know, I'm reading it. That's what I'm kind of trying to do with my comics.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

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

I don't read much of anything online.

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