Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.

When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.

My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.

I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.

I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had hope. And all of a sudden, I see that being dissolved, and I see, as a country, as a people, we are a republic. We are a democracy.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.