Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes.

My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.

I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.

I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters.

I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.

Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch.

I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw.

To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all.

I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next.