Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was writing about at the time - stories no one had any reason to think would succeed. My advice? Write what you want to read. You'll have more fun doing it - and if all else fails, you'll always have at least one loyal reader.

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

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

It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

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.

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