I Like To Leave A Little Room

Alfred Hitchcock Talked About Planning Out His Movies So Meticulously That When He Was Actually Shooting And Editing, It Was The Most Boring Thing In The World. But Drawing Comics Isn't Like Shooting A Movie. You Can Shoot A Movie In A Few Days And Be Done With It, But Drawing A Comic Takes Years And Years... That's The Biggest Part Of Doing Comics: You Have To Create Stuff That Makes You Want To Get Out Of Bed Every Morning And Get To Work.

I Knew How To Draw All Of The Different Smokestacks On The Old Trains And All That Stuff, And Then I Realized That If I Can Draw Trains, Which Is The Thing I Was Probably The Least Interested In In The World At The Time, I Can Do Anything And Find A Way Into It That Will Be Interesting.

In Some Ways, I Never Outgrew My Adolescence. I Wake Up In The Morning And Think, 'oh My God, I'm Late For A Math Test!' But Then I Say, 'wait A Minute. I'm 40.

My Feeling Is That It's One Of The Very Few Things That Comics Can Do That You Really Can't Do In Any Other Medium. I Feel Like The Reader Accepts All Of These Styles, And After A Certain Point You Can Flip The Pages And See A Character Rendered Very Differently Than You Saw On An Earlier Page, And It's Not Jarring. It Suggests Things That You Can't Suggest Just In The Writing Or In The Plotting.

I Really Want People To Read The Book, And Bookstores Never Sold An Issue Of Eightball Because Nobody Knew What It Was.