Writing about a place is, of course, one good way of feeling close to it, feeling you have made something out of your interaction with that place. It….

Me being from a Celtic culture that tends to emphasize directness, conflict, openness has a big effect on my living in Japan, which tends to focus on….

When its comes to music and books 'OK' is not good enough. We need creative work that floors us! That we can't believe the beauty and brains and styl….

Despite the variety my books reflect my, perhaps foolish, tendency to place artistic above financial concerns; of enjoying the more mature themes in ….

Comics can do any kind of story. It's words and pictures, the only things it can't do are sing and dance..

An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or 'correcting' the….

Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas' etc. There will be plenty things we take as normal ….

Most comic book creators consider about making characters that people recognize and that can carry across many books. Something that becomes a tradem….

My personality has become one that tends to focus and move forward, yes. But I was not like that when I was 16 or 23, I think. I was much more uncert….

The thing is that I don't normally think in terms of manga when I'm writing. Sounds odd from someone who has is getting a reputation for doing manga ….

Mistakes and prejudices are as interesting as anything else. They reveal a lot about the mind set and culture of the time under consideration..

There are many things I still don't know or don't do well in comic books. It's more a question of having the will to do something creative on a subje….