The only thing that happens if you wait, is that you get older.
I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.
I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.
I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown up my whole life reading comics and I know every little nuance of the language and all the implications.
I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.
I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.
There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas.
Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.
The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with promises of pie in the sky and simultaneously terrorized by the threats of extreme nastiness in the eternal afterlife in hell.
I do want to give out a positive message and be successful.
I want to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.