I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

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

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.

Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.

I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

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