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As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

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.

Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

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

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

People love their comic books.

There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.