After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

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

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

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story

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

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident

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