Do you ever venture outside of the US for cons and the like? I imagine it being rather difficult/expensive, but also (selfishly) wish that's something that happens

I do. I don’t do conventions to sell stuff or to go to parties. I go to cons because I like to spread the word about comics. I like to talk about bringing in the most diverse audience possible. I like to keep the message out there that comics are for everyone.

For me, that means doing as many cons outside of the biggest US cities as possible. I try to do some smaller events, and I try to do as many things outside the US as possible. It might be that I travel to non-US cons more than almost any other US-based creator.

In the past few years I’ve been to Shanghai, Barcelona, Belo Horizonte, Cardiff, Belfast, Dublin, London, the Lakes District in England, Calgary, Edmonton, Mexico City, all over Australia and New Zealand, Singapore, Norway, Iceland, and many many more, and this year I am going to a couple new countries I’ve never visited before. 

I love the travel, but it is very exhausting to get places AND do a con, especially in a foreign country. But I get to say truthfully that I’ve made friends all over the world, and that’s a pretty lovely feeling.