Charles Forsman

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

“I find myself laughing at really bad situations.”

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

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

“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.”

“Find the confidence in whatever way you can to just keep moving onto the next page. The only way you will finish projects and get better is to keep moving forward.”

“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.”

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

“If we got writing assignments in English class to make up a story, that was when the glimmer of creativity popped out. That was way more interesting to me than writing down my life details.”

“My teenage years were pretty - I have regrets about those years. Obviously everyone knows that as a teenager it's really confusing and your feelings are so raw.”

“I would love to do a pay-what-you-want but that just doesn't work for physical comics so well.”

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

“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'm a huge fan of not doing world-building or exposition. My eyes glaze over when I see it.”

“I have so many comics laying around the house and I've never been great at keeping them organized.”

“When I'm not worrying about what other people want, that's when I do the best work.”

“I didn't have a horrible life as a teenager but I was certainly depressed and had some pain in my life at that time. I've spent a lot of time thinking back on that time in my life. I think I am just fascinated by it.”

“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.”

“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 think when I first sold digital comics it was sort of on a whim.”