By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

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.

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

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

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.

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