Occupation: Comic Book Writer Birth: August 18, 1967
I'm wired with a little bit of self-loathing, not that kind of self-loathing that paralyzes me, but it's there. The things I'm most loved for are som….
Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long history of short-term think….
Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they s….
If you're miserable and someone flies by looking like they have everything in the whole world and it's never going to be you, that's tough to deal wi….
When it was announced that Spider-Man was going to be in Captain America: Civil War, "Miles Morales" was trending on Twitter for like a week. More pe….
It was a very excellent day over there at HBO/Cinemax when they bought 'Powers' . I felt like I graduated television college, because they make amazi….
One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us..
In my mind jealousy would come with seeing people do something that makes it all look extremely easy when it's not, like artists who can draw better ….
Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey..
Reading Homicide by David Simon was the first time I said, "What if this was in a world of superheroes?" That was a very good idea. What if Chinatown….
Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digita….
It also helps that what Dan Slott is doing with Peter Parker in the comics has elevated him to something else, so that Miles Morales at the moment is….
I was there when Sam Raimi showed Stan Lee the first cut of the first Spider-Man movie. I was on a couch next to Stan, watching how special effects h….
The one thing that Jessica [Johnson] and Miles[Morales] have in common is that there's a great many people in the audience who were desperate for tha….
One of the things I like to do is people's hearts are on their sleeve, whether it's a good or a bad heart. And I think that's one of the things livin….
I obviously love those characters ['The Avengers'] with my whole heart. I was on a one-man "Luke Cage is cool" campaign for most of the Aughts. When ….
In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more ….
This is something I learned when I was working at a newspaper: when you put something on paper, whether it's words or pictures, and it's staring back….
You're as good as the people you're with..
If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking what you write,….
I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it all at first..