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

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.

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

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.

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

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

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