In terms of e-books, though, I haven't quite gotten to the bottom of it yet, but for some reason everybody I know seems to want to engage me on that ….

For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy who was trying to be cool b….

It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager..

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….

I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle,….

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 ….

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 ….

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….

There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs..

I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be….

I get nervous about the effect that the high speed of everything will have on creativity. It's already sad for me to see that a lot of young aspiring….

Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor..

I think a lot of the bells and whistles that become available to you would be impossible to resist for some people, so it's just never going to be a ….

There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the ….

It's psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you'….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….