But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special

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

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

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube