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All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

I was born a comic.

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.