I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that's still my agenda.

I tend to think of fear and humour as very, very close together. And to be honest I think pornography completes the triangle, because they are things that to work need to evoke a certain reaction.

Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.