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I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

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

I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.

I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time - which is very few of us - will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance!

I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.

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

This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.