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As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.

Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school was clearly a good thing. But comics were more like candy, just flashy wrappers without any nourishment. Cheap thrills.

I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books.

People love their comic books.

I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.

There's bleeding between age groups in terms of reading material, and there's bleeding between media. So there are books that are clearly comics and books that are prose, and then there are these books that are kind of in-between.

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