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I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

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.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.