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One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.

With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.

Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different.

Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.

All my work begins with drawings.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.