I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

Believe it or not, the characters are all like people I went to art school with in the '70s.

Comic characters have to have some kind of life breathed into them, and I'm never exactly sure how that's done, but you can tell when it works and when it doesn't. There's nothing worse than looking at a comic when somebody doesn't have that. It's like looking at store windows or something.

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.