“I love the challenge of taking established, iconic comics characters a...” — Mark Waid Quote

I love the challenge of taking established, iconic comics characters and showing readers why they remain contemporary.

In Marvel Comics, the worst thing was always that your loved ones could be attacked, or you could be horribly beaten in a knock-down, drag-out fight, but in the Superman comics, you would be run out of town with people throwing rotten vegetables at you and waving a sign that said, 'Superman, Who Needs You?'

I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins of mythology.

The fun of writing established characters is that there's a rich mythology to draw from - you get to play with toys you loved as a kid.

I know a lot of people who read 'Sweet Tooth' are the kind of people who don't read a lot of other comics. Whatever it was, I'm just glad it happened.

I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!

I would not be in comics if it weren't for independent creators like Kate Beaton, Jess Fink, and Emily Carroll. That's where I found my start and inspiration, through women who did it themselves and built a career on their own terms.

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.