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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

My first influences were superhero artists.