And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrat….

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them..

I didn't write superheroes for the first 10 years of my comic career. I was just doing fan fiction. I wasn't thinking about superheroes at all, even ….

The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read….

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..

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 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….

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 ….

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….

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us..

You're as good as the people you're with..

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..

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….

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….

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 ….

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 ….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….