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

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say

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

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

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