Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about 'Watching the Watchmen' - like the notes where I plot the rotation of a perfume bottle through the air - might not be particularly obvious to anyone who reads it.

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.

I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.