What I do with everything is take things out of real life. You encounter all sorts of stories. It's a lot of your friends and family, sometimes there's quite sad episodes in their life and everything. So just little things I've picked up along the years always find a way into all of my stories.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

I've been doing the Millarworld stuff for decades, and everybody seems really happy that's working on it.

Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.

Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.