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My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.

There is a friend of mine that is very into the comic book world, and he showed me '300,' and I looked at it, and I said, 'Wow, that could be a great film.'

Comics are given serious attention now and I'm quite surprised. You see them reviewed in major newspapers and exhibited in serious museums. I wouldn't have predicted it.

I didn't read many comics as a kid - I've always been a really fast reader, and I would fly through a comic book in a few minutes and be so mad that it ended so quickly. But now that I've been in the business, I tend to look at the panels so much more carefully, and realize that so much of it is about the art; I don't think I got that before.

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

I've sat in the theater for thousands and thousands of shows.

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

In general, I feel so much of pop culture is set in the generic big city, particularly comics. I feel like there are so many other stories to tell.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the opportunity to meet the fans at Comic Con or any other situation, it's a chance to enter that circle; it's that sharing.