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.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

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

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

Get inside her head. Get inside any character's head and ask what they want in this scene. And if you work from the perspective of what they want, there's not going to be any wrong answer. There's going to be some boring answers, but none of them are going to be wrong. As long as she has agency, then you're on the right track.

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

I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.