You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.