Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some of it was just an ….

I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic; there's been a lot of progress recently. A….

And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the busi….

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better..

I certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that I drew myself without eye….

I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and ju….

When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and….

Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it's nice to not have to dread introductions. "What you do for a living?" It used t….

That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being h….

When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD players and TVs and all these….

I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commerci….

Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white c….

I think it's harder for each generation. Even I just feel completely separate from teenagers today who have access to the Internet. And I'm amazed th….

And also, as a consumer now, it's weird that when I used to go to a book signing I would leave with a stack of pamphlets people had made to show off ….

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their charact….

Look, there's no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years, and for someone like….

I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like….

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child..

You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium..

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents..

For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward ….