All I Can Say On The Guilford

I Have This Certain Vision Of The Way I Want My Comics To Look; This Sort Of Photographic Realism, But With A Certain Abstraction That Comics Can Give. It's Kind Of A Fine Line.

I Have A Very Low Tolerance For Animation. I'm Used To The Perfect Integrity You Get From Drawing Your Own Comics. There's Something About That That Animation Always Loses.

Surely Comics Require More Effort On The Part Of The Reader Than Movies Or Television. I'm Always Learning New Things You Can Do With Comics That Wouldn't Work In Any Other Medium, And Often They Require The Need To Process A Lot Of Dense Information. Of Course, The Trick Is To Make The Complicated Seem Effortless And Spontaneous.

Avatar Is A Total Nerd Thing, And Yet Our Popular Culture Has Somehow Made All That Stuff Acceptable.

I Just Try To Make Comics For Myself, Try To Give It Some Kind Of Unity Throughout. That Often Involves Tiny Details. I'm Never Sure What's Going To Be Obvious Or What Nobody Will Ever Notice. I Put Stuff In My Comics That I Thought Was Blatantly Obvious, And Nobody Noticed. And Things That I Think Are Buried In The Background, Everybody Gets It. So I Try To Be Consistently Aware Of Every Part Of The Frame.