I Grew Up In London Under Thatcher

I Respond Very Well To Rules. If There Are Certain Parameters It's Much Easier To Do Something Really Good. Especially When Readers Know What Those Are. They Know What To Expect And Then You Have To Wrong-foot Them. That Is The Trick Of Crime Fiction. And Readers Come To Crime And Graphic Novels Wanting To Be Entertained, Or Disgusted.

Crime Fiction Is The Fiction Of Social History. Societies Get The Crimes They Deserve.

We Don't Really Go In For Big Family Dinners, But Scottish People Are Famously Confrontational. It's A Cultural Thing, So Maybe We Don't Need To Have Them To Clear The Air. Also, Traditional Family Food Isn't As Nice Here So There's No Payoff For Traveling Hundreds Of Miles.

I Hate It When I'm Reading A Comic, And The Dialogue Looks Like Stickers Stuck On Top To Explain What's Going On. For Me The Best Is When Your Eye Goes In A Certain Point And Moves Through The Composition And Then Springs Out On The Dialogue, Or Gets Confused In The Image And Then Goes To The Dialogue For An Explanation.

I Just Got An Honorary Degree From Glasgow University, And I Had To Wear Around Very Painful Shoes So That I Didn't Laugh All The Way Through The Ceremony Because I Felt Like An Outlaw.