The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.

I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.