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.

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

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

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.

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

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

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.