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.

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

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

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.

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

My first influences were superhero artists.