It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks.

I think I related more literally to the early 'Spider-Man' comics from Steve Ditko because it could be upfront and direct about the problems of being a kid. He captured being a teenager so beautifully.

I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River'.

Once we got going on the Fantagraphics version of Love and Rockets, our encouragement was constant. People wanted us to do more, do more. Thirty years later, here we are.

I've seen that most people change as they get older.

I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.