I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

I always wanted to work at Take A Break magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote Garnethill because I didn't get that job!

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

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.