hooooly shit, Brandon. Joe shared this thing by Moebius and it was ridiculously detailed. Crosshatching to the extreme, fuck. It's gotta be hard looking up to this guy, especially if you're tangled in that web of comparing yourself to him. Is it difficult?

When I look at what Moebius draws I feel like he makes it seem more possible to draw. Michael

Kaluta once told me that Moebius, is an artist that teaches you how to draw by looking at his work. Some of his best stuff is just simple pretty lines. 

I think a lot of what made him great wasn’t any crazy detail but the constancy of quality and longevity he had. A lot of artists have about a 5 to 15 year window of their best work—  I think Moebius made his best work from the 70′s until his death. 

There’s certainly artists that make things seem more difficult through their work. Shirow’s layouts are on another level. kim jung gi and Terada make sketchbooks feel like the Olympics. 

The little bit I worked on movies made me not enjoy them as much, but that’s because the process seems less fun. The process in comics is part of what I love about it. Listening to audio books while drawing things that crack me up. I even like scanning— maybe because it feels like working but isn’t

In the end Moebius was Moebius and we all just have to carve our own spaces in our work. I don’t worry about it, I can only do what I do, the work is in making sure that it is fun.