I Don't Do A Comic

It's One Thing To Be Sitting At A Drawing Board, Alone In Your Home And Coming Up With A Fantasy Character, And Drawing Her Whichever Way You Feel Like Drawing, Then Dealing With A Real Performer. All Of A Sudden, Things Change. It's Amazing, In Working With Actors, How Much I Learn From Them And How Many New Lines Will Come To Mind Because Of Their Personality Or Their Strengths.

This Should Be Agony. I Should Be A Mass Of Aching Muscle - Broken, Spent, Unable To Move. And, Were I An Older Man, I Surely Would ... ... But I'm A Man Of Thirty - Of Twenty Again. The Rain On My Chest Is A Baptism - I'm Born Again.

I Guess In My Own Egotistical Way I Like To Create My Own Library Of Batman Books That Doesn't Run Contrary To A Single Thing That Has Been Published Before, But It Also Stands On Its Own.

I Realized That I Was About To Turn 30, And Batman Was Permanently 29. And I Was Going To Be Damned If I Was Older Than Batman.

It's Not Movies And It's Not "fine Art." The Beauty Of A Comic Is That It's Clear, Direct Communication. My Work Is Getting Simpler And More Cartoony Because I'm Much More Interested In Communication Now Than In Any Illustrative Value.