"Rather than make pronouncements about how to draw or what tools and techniques are best, we will explore character design as a function of storytelling, as each design should follow the unique requirements of each story. We will focus to a greater degree on the story-driven decisions that specific authors make—and how individual authors think when they’re crafting characters—than on the process steps they take and how their characters look when completed. In short, this is a book about the why of character design as much as it is about the how."

- From the preface to Character Design for Graphic Novels.