The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me so sad. What can I do about sadness? I am so brave." It's just like, shut up, man, shut up.

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

Working a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as an artist. If you're 19 and living cheap, being an artist model can sustain you. I dropped out of college at 21 and my illustration hadn't yet taken off. It is more than working in a store. It is a hard way to make a living but you earn more than in a similarly unskilled job.

But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.

When virtue was spoken of in the classical sense, for men, it always meant bravery or protecting others or being an adventurer and going out into the world - whereas a woman's virtue meant keeping her legs closed.

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.