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

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.

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

Different types of sex work are differently supportive. If I were working in a strip club, I would be competing with my colleagues, and while there would be support, there would be financial motivation not to offer too much support.

The truth is, the vast majority of medical care for lower income people in America is shitty. If you go to a free clinic to receive any form of care, the majority of those will be overcrowded with nurses who are tired because they have to work with so many people. We are not a country that invests public money into taking care of poor people, so we usually rely on clinics with very overburdened and underpaid staff.

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