Hi Matt! I have a question for you. Because you're my favorite comic writer, and comic writing is my dream/passion/reason for living what have you. But I fell off my path a little, withdrew from college a few years ago, and I have a time consuming dead end

My path was windy like the JOIN OR DIE snake. Your question’s a little tricky – I didn’t get paid to write comics for a long time, even after they were being published. The first paying work I had was at Marvel on PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL, but by that point I had a shorts, graphic novels, and CASANOVA out in the world.

So… so what I did was think of comics as my ‘night job.’ I had a great day job, though, so i was pretty happy whether we were paying our bills or not. At night, to keep my own creat...