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

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects

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

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

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

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar