The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers.

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.

I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

I don't think we're supposed to say [expletive deleted] anymore.

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads?