For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.

I never feel there's anything I can't do with comics. There are certain things in comics that you can't do in any other medium: for instance, in Mister Wonderful, Marshall's narration overlaps the events as they're going on. That would be difficult in film; you could blot speech out with a voiceover, but it wouldn't have the same effect. That's always of interest, to see what new things you can do in comics form.

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

I think if you had different artists approaching the material in different styles, that's very different. I think it's an interesting thing to discover, what's present in the work even when you're shifting the styles. I've just found it a much stronger way to work.