I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults.

You can't help putting a lot of yourself into the image and when it's printed the reader can spend hours getting it out.

Comics are a gateway into literature.

Plastic surgery is such a displacement. If people feel good in their skin, then they're beautiful, end of story.

I remember being in a comic shop with my son, with my ten year-old son and he put his hand over my eyes. He was embarrassed about me seeing the comics at Forbidden Planet.

I know what I as an editor respond to is a voice. A voice is not just a stylistic thing, but it means someone who really has something to say. I think a lot of what I get from books - whether they be books of comics or books of literature - is a window into somebody's mind and their way of thinking. Somehow, I can recognize some of my feelings in seeing somebody who is actually expressing their own inner reality.

I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults.