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

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

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

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.

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

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.