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

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it

To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client

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