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

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

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 I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different

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

Cartooning is an honorable thing