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" Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out. "

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" I'm always changing my style. "

" What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done. "

" One of my favorite comics is 'Love and Rockets' by the Hernandez Brothers. They do such a wonderful job of showing you how the character of Maggie ages and really doesn't present that with any kind of judgment. "

" Ditko isn't a direct influence, but I really admire his work and how his personality always comes through the drawing. There's a honest and quirky humanity to it, and you always feel the artist behind the comic. That's really rare. "

" You want, whenever you're telling a story, to have a certain amount of range, and you want to be able to take the audience on that ride with you. "

" I guess you could blame it on being raised by comics and television, but I've always loved robots in any shape or size. "

" Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong. "

" To be honest, my first instinct when I heard about the 'Greendale' project was that it was a licensing thing. As I learned more about the project, I saw how pure it was. "

" I do all my coloring on PhotoShop - it's good and bad: It helped refine my color, but I do miss the texture and organic quality of the traditional. "

" Really, subtlety is what is really important to me and my work. "

" If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty. "

" I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel. "

" After a couple of years at Vertigo, I realized that if I was going to be a professional artist, I'd have to devote myself to it full time, so I ended up leaving my job there and went freelance. "

" I don't like to be pigeon-holed. "

" Everybody has said or done the wrong thing and regretted it later, but at the time, you really couldn't help it! As you get older, you're more guarded, but that's a really tough process of learning, to be brutally honest, about some things and keeping your mouth shut about others. "

" Comics and music have historically had a pretty dicey relationship. "

" What I like about 'Paper Girls' in particular is that, because we're approaching it more from a female perspective, we're able to consider the emotional states of these characters a little bit more and think more of their interiority. "

" A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then. "

" Each book requires a different look. Sometimes I get to take a personal direction that's appropriate for the story. I try to push things within a range. Some are rougher, some more expressionistic, some are slicker graphically and call for a prettier drawing style that I can do. Some have a more classical vibe, and some are in between. "

" I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity. "

" There is a tendency for the New Gods to work best as guest stars. "

" One of the funny things about Wonder Woman is that everybody does love her. She does win everybody over at some point. "

" The '80s were a really different time for kids. Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people. Back then, as a kid, you could really just do whatever you wanted until your parents got home. "

" What impresses me the most about DC characters is how long a lot of them have been around. "

" Something like 'Dr. Thirteen,' which features no big characters, was probably the most fun thing I've worked on because the story was so great, and it was written so well. "

" I'm really happy that more and more people are making their own comics. I remember how daunting it was for me to just put pen to paper, page by page, until you had a finished comic, but the way new creators are doing that and bravely bringing their unique voices and experiences to their work is really inspiring. "

" One of my earliest jobs drawing was 'Wonder Woman: Our Worlds At War,' with Phil Jimenez, which was a really cool jaunt through her history. I got to draw this two-page spread that was set in the Golden Age. "