There's also a lot of punch you get from doing an extreme closeup and have it just be that image with nothing around it. There's a clarity and precision and impact there that you sometimes lose if you put everything else in that background.

I have a tendency to do the epic kind of long shot and put in everything that you need to know. And that's by design; that's the kind of approach I take to it.

Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games.

[Superman and Lois are] kindred spirits, and they always choose to do the right thing.

Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.