I Love Mikhail Bulgakov. He Is Very

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.

Most Of The People Who Write To Me Are Really Clever, Really Engaged. They Just Want To Say That They Have Read My Book And Liked It.

I'd Read So Much Right-wing Crime Fiction Where They Find The Evidence And Shoot The Bad Guy - I Thought There Must Be Another Approach.

A Man Who Thinks He Has A Higher Purpose Can Do Terrible Things, Even To Those He Professes To Love.

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.