Occupation: Writer Birth: 1976
It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself..
Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses..
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'.
I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my fri….
There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game..
Life is mostly just learning how to lose..
I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids..
I've written about teenage heroes before, on Marvel's Runaways, and I remember at the time when I pitched it, it was a team that had more female memb….
Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era..
I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again..
I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking about how eager they are to….
I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth..
Fans of my books have just been supremely nice..
The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee..
Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same..
Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that..
They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be ….
It's just people who grew up in that time are suddenly old enough to be creators themselves, but I think they have a little perspective. I'm 40 now, ….
When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it..
These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life..
For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays..