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

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

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

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.

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

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.

To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.