I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.