The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

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

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

My father brought me my first stack of comics, when I was seven years old and in the hospital. I was not a well child. And that's where my love for comics began.