I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much