It’s still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie. “That’s why they’re monsters.

The shape does not change. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. you may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal...

Writing a book is lonelier and slower than writing comics. The joy of comics is that you have somebody to talk to. What you’re writing isn’t what anybody reads, it’s a letter to an artist....

It’s an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It’s about the soul of America, really. What people brought to...

I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with...