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

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

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

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

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

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

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