There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

My first influences were superhero artists.

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.