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This certainly isn’t an odd question, Caio but it is a fairly massive question because the causes of the comic industry implosion have been disputed and interpreted by different groups to serve their own agenda. Moreover, terms like quality and maturity are subjective and misleading—and also ‘spun’ ...

I began work on The ClanDestine a few months before the first big Comic Industry implosion. Marvel UK was the first victim and had been publishing something like 25 titles until literally overnight, they were reduced to publishing one-- The ClanDestine. BUT it wasn't as simple as that because Marvel...

Hi Luke I'm familiar with the Narnia chronicles but I'm not really a fan-- although I'm also sure that on some level I have absorbed and maybe even been inspired by some part of CS Lewis' work. I don't know if you made reference to the Christian and Biblical allegories in the Narnia books because of...

Thanks for a most comprehensive reply, Jim. I hope you don't mind a few additional questions. If the Marvel paper is 2-ply does this designation include all of the layers--that is, are other layers added during the lamination process or is it just a hot press to give the 'plate' finish? What are the...

I don’t think it’s cheating to recognise that most creative ventures are ultimately unsatisfactory or do not fully meet the original aspiration so the reality is there are only ever ‘bits that work’. Trying to close the gap between aspiration and completion is the challenge. Having said that, as a r...

The Killraven 1 cover was indeed a homage, tribute, reworking... BUT it wasn't because the original Amazing Adventures cover was a favourite. I had considered doing a different cover but eventually accepted that the AA18 cover layout was/is the perfect example of the classic 'first issue pin-up shot...

Hi Alessandro Sorry to have kept you waiting for an answer. I do try to reply to the e-mails I receive on my site as promptly as I can but, because of the volume of correspondence, I often get about a month behind. (And that was before my three week summer vacation) Also, now that Matt has created t...

Selling original art has never been a priority and I do make most of my original art sales via Jim Warden. The fact he has so little is my fault entirely because Jim does pursue me in regard to regular requests—But creating new pages is always more important to me. Fortunately, my daughter Pauline (...

Thanks for your kind words, Ivan. Sadly I haven’t kept up with comics published in the last five years or so—living two hours away from the nearest comic store and having grown used to ‘comps’ from both Marvel and DC which grew intermittent and then stopped-- during which time I just lost track... A...

Don't get me started on the things I don't like about comic colouring-- I used to think it was poor when I first started work in US comics but, in my opinion, the advances in computer colouring has only increased the ways blackline art can be messed up. Too many people with very limited ability tryi...

As Row rightly reports, the Modern Masters book would give a more complete answer to your question, Caio-- But the short answer is that I never had any 'formal art training after age 12-- I choose woodwork as my 'craft' option at school with an eye to becoming a carpenter. I also attended an occasio...

I have copies of almost everything I have ever drawn. The quality of the early copies (due to the technology of the time) was poor and they have deteriorated with age. I do plan to post more samples as I get time but I'll most likely stick to using original art where I can just because I can make su...

Gordon I haven't seen the issue in print but Blackpool was the location requested in the plot-- although, as anyone familiar with Blackpool will know, I took the liberty of inventing a huge storm drain to help smooth out the scene transition between the beach and old church. For anyone not familiar ...

I think sometime early next year but I haven't been given a definite date yet.

Entropy, It can take time to find the best way to make any character design work with my style of drawing. I prefer simplicity and elegance to the needlessly complicated designs which are often very limiting, time consuming and clunky (that is they work against creating movement in the art). The one...