It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

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.

Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.

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

My first influences were superhero artists.

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