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.

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.

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

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

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

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