I'm More Interested In Characters Who Are

You Can Give Some Kind Of Spark Of Life To A Comic That A Photograph Doesn't Really Have. A Photograph, Even If It's Connecting With You, It Seems Very Dead On The Page Sometimes.

Writing Screenplays Is Very Freeing From What You Can Do In Comics In A Lot Of Ways. You Can Change Things Around. I Can Take Great Delight In Writing 40 Pages, Then Just Pressing Delete And Getting Rid Of It And Not Thinking About It Ever Again. Whereas In Comics, If I Had Put That Kind Of Effort Into It, I Couldn't Go On.

Surely Comics Require More Effort On The Part Of The Reader Than Movies Or Television. I'm Always Learning New Things You Can Do With Comics That Wouldn't Work In Any Other Medium, And Often They Require The Need To Process A Lot Of Dense Information. Of Course, The Trick Is To Make The Complicated Seem Effortless And Spontaneous.

I Can Look At My Early Work And See What A Pained Struggle It Was To Draw What I Was Drawing. I Was Trying So Hard To Get This Specific Look That Was In My Head, And Always Falling Short.

In Some Ways, I Never Outgrew My Adolescence. I Wake Up In The Morning And Think, 'oh My God, I'm Late For A Math Test!' But Then I Say, 'wait A Minute. I'm 40.