I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.