For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

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I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

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You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

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So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

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I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.

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

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So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

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That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

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So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different.

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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.

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