My first influences were superhero artists.

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

Space does for comics what time does for film!

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

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.

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

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