I love writing comics too much.
When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.
Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.
Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.
Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for artists.
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.
Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.
Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
Before I went off to Rutgers, I worked in a comic book shop in my hometown. At night, I would work on some comic stories, and after a while, I developed an idea for a weird little superhero spoof comic called 'Cement Shooz.'
