And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.

It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.