But I Enjoy The Opportunity To Use

I Think Politics Has An Influence On My Work Now, Perhaps More So Than When I Was A Childless Young Man, But I Hope Never To Deal With These Kinds Of Issues In Anything More Than A Covert Manner. I'm More Interested In Figuring Out What I Think Than In Pronouncing My Views To The World.

Surely Comics Require More Effort On The Part Of The Reader Than Movies Or Television. I'm Always Learning New Things You Can Do With Comics That Wouldn't Work In Any Other Medium, And Often They Require The Need To Process A Lot Of Dense Information. Of Course, The Trick Is To Make The Complicated Seem Effortless And Spontaneous.

Even If I Only Had 10 Readers, I'd Rather Do The Book For Them Than For A Million Readers Online.

Before I Could Read, I Remember Trying To Piece Together The Stories From The Images. It Was A Very Primal Experience.

I Think That Gulf Is What Makes The Work Interesting, But As A Creator It's Endlessly Frustrating Because I'm Starting Out With This Goal, This Thing I'm Trying To Create, And Then The Thing I Actually Do Create Is Very, Very Different. It's Always Painful, In Some Ways, Especially When It's Just Finished.