My first influences were superhero artists.

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

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.