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

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

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed

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

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

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