I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look at it at a glance, they get it. Boom. Simple. Direct to the point. But when you're drawing Groo, now it's a narrative, a story. You want the viewer to get involved in the story. You want him to feel like he's in the town to follow your main character. So I love to add lots and lots of things in it. Things that people will enjoy going back to and say, "Oh yeah, that's how a market must have looked in this fantasy world, with people selling meat here and dishes here."

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.

When I'm drawing a bottle or a town or a market, I transport myself there. So I start drawing everything that I'm looking at while I'm there. Here's a guy selling the meat, and he will have a hook, and you start adding things, and it's a lot of fun.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.