“I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.”

Everyone needs some time to unwind. There are even coloring book clubs popping up in every state now, so it’s not such an isolating experience.

We’re on the computers, phones and tablets all day long, sometimes you just need to escape from the screens.

I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad’s killer comic book collection filled with Silver Age books from his youth…early Spider-Man, Thor, Fantastic Four,

People are getting together specifically to color. It’s amazing.

The Hulk, Detective Comics, Action Comics, you name it. Seeing those old books got me interested in new comics, so my friends and I would hit the local comic shop every Saturday to pick up the cool titles of my generation.

Coloring is very relaxing for one thing. And I think adults like to unplug from technology for awhile and do something tangible with their hands.

Coloring allows folks to express themselves in a creative way. It’s healthy.

The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it’s also rewarding because it’s possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. In this way,

Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.

No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.

“What you do for a living?” It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics.

To me, my favorite comic book movies were the ones that were never based on comic books, like Unforgiven.

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

Suddenly that means it’s more like a comic book, and It’s not really like that.

But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.