In the past you've always seemed to be fairly outspoken about people mimicking other people's styles, if I remember rightly you said one of the only exceptions in your eyes was Vaughn Bode's son, so how come you're letting it slide now that your new girl i

I’ve certainly said some things in the past that I learned more about & hopefully grown in my views on. 

I feel like some people have to work through their influences.None of us spring from the womb fully formed as artists. I think to be as invested as I am in the comics scene to ignore or push away people who are influenced by my work would be nuts.

I’ve sad a lot that when you take on influences, you can either wear it or eat it and have it become part of you. I’m still not a fan of taking the surface elements of something without learning WHY they are done. 

It’s cool that Mark Bode, can take his father’s style & connect with him through it or spray paint it or any other directions his father never went with it.But It’s also cool if anyone can stand on those shoulders and see where else things can go. 

I’ve thought a lot about the -school of Moebius guys & how you can get someone like Sylvain Despretz –who I think is more technical than Moebius

or Dave Taylor (who I worked with on Prophet & connected with over how we both feel about Moebius)

Taylor &

Despretz

both been so heavily influenced by Moebius but managed to also make it their own. I like how they both look like Moebius but neither look like eachother. 

(Here’s a page of Moebius drawing a page of a Dave Taylor comic– & If Jean Henri Gaston Giraud is gonna be cool with Dave then who am I ) 

I think Alejandra does her own stuff she’s certainly got a different life than I ever had. & goes places with her work that I would never go. 

 I think artists have to take from everything around them & hopefully cobble it together into something that conveys what it’s like to be a person