All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.