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

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

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

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

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

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

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