Charles Forsman

The presentation of young people you often get from Hollywood is too shiny.

Growing up my brother showed me a lot of Cohen brothers movies, I guess that's where I get my dark humor from.

I'm going to try to have a bonus item with each issue of 'Revenger.'

I dropped out of high school, and had this girlfriend, and we broke up, and it was this horrible crisis.

I was really into music, but I thought, 'Comics are great, I should get back into that.'

My brother and I were really into baseball cards, and it seemed like an easy switch to jump over to comics.

I'd rather be a cartoonist. I don't want to be a publisher.

I found a really cheap Visograph printer on Craigslist and drove down to Pennsylvania to pick it up and that really gave me a lot of freedom.

After high school I moved out and worked at pizza shops and movie theaters and moved to L.A. for a year and lived with my brother.

I was in my early twenties and trying to figure out what I wanted to do and comics came back in my life and I thought I really want to give it a try.

There is no editor or agent or person with a sack of money that will magically come down and give you motivation to make your thing.

'Automa' is probably my first sci-fi story. It's not hard sci-fi but more in the 'Terminator 2' vein.

Something that comics afford me is being able to change my mind at the last minute.

I always wanted to write about comics and I have written little things here and there but I am not confident in my writing.

Anytime I feel like I am beginning to explain the plot or characters too much my stomach churns. I like stories that let the characters speak for themselves and don't give you all the information.

I do love sparse cartooning.

I'm hard-pressed to say that anything I do in my comics is intentional. But that is a stupid thing to say.

I listen to tech podcasts and read tech news everyday. So I am not unfamiliar with Amazon's practices. I'm not surprised that they bought Comixology.

I like Comixology and I think they have a very captive audience which is good and bad. I hope that getting my books on there expose folks who just read Marvel/DC/Image to try something different.

As for the cartoonists 'Oily' prints, they are just artists I admire. I am lucky to be friends with most of them so it was easy to contact them. Some have come to me but mainly they are just folks that I admire.