My art style is kind of hard to pin down, I think there’s a lot of Sunday morning comics in it, I think there’s a lot of Peanuts, there’s definitely a little Garfield slipped in there. As a high schooler I found Edward Gorey and just aped his style, and loved it. And, yeah, it’s just got a very simple, clean art style. The information is more important than the style for me.
I really like to be clean and sharp and easy to read. I love the look of the Franco-Belgian comics, Tin-Tin, those simple characters like that, that are simple, but they’re dynamic, and you can always recognize them, and you can always tell what they’re thinking because their face is doing the expressions.
And I still love reading new comics, reading foreign comics. All the different influences, seeing how people are communicating these things. I’m making up now reading lots of graphic novels and comics for the comics I didn’t read as a kid.
It has a tiny bit of Manga in there, too. If it’s hard for me to read regular graphic novels, it’s very hard for me to read Manga because then you’re switching everything in reverse which always takes a little learning curve every time I do it, but beautiful, wonderful work. Some of my favorite books are Manga books.