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I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable.

Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

The great thing about working in comics is that visually, you're the sole voice. You have to figure out the staging, the lighting, the composition, the character emotions, the action. You get a script, but you're trying to work it out in individual panels. It's a terrific exercise in creative thinking and creative problem-solving.

I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.