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I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.

I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works, and the term 'graphic novel' has sort of become the codified term now.

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are for kids, and graphic novels are for adults. But you can't really separate the two.

I have a great affection for comics, and I think that people underrate comics as a genre.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.