I liked interacting with students. I liked having coworkers. For a long time, I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a compu….

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading..

Coming from the world of comics, I was very surprised that writers and illustrators, for the most part, don't talk, and they don't collaborate..

Zombies aren't about zombies. It's not about the dead bodies. I think it's a very hopeful subgenre. It says that regardless of what happens, humanity….

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children..

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul..

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms..

I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow g….

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side..

If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about th….

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based..

Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting..

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core ….

What is China but a people and their stories?.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading..

My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had….

At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving….

Wait." "So what am I supposed to do now?" "You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock ….

Superheroes are also about immigrants. Superman, the prototype of all superheroes, is a prototypical immigrant. His homeland was in crisis, so his pa….

As somebody who's kind of a technophile, I'm interested in how traditional and digital publishing connect. Maybe ten years ago they were seen as anta….

One of the ways [racism] pops up is when they turn a comic into a live-action movie and there's this temptation to make Asian characters white..