And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.

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.

To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.