Adrian Tomine's diaries read sort

Adrian Tomine’s diaries read sort of like his comic, Optic Nerve. I’ve wondered since I was a kid exactly how comic pages were composed (“how do they know how big to make the word balloons?") and Marvel’s How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way wasn’t much help, but Tomine has sprinkled his diary with some glimpses into the method (and madness) of his process.