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

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

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

If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.

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.

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

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