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I love the interplay between words and pictures. I love the fact that in comics, your pictures are acting like words, presenting themselves to be read.

So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.

Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.

With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.