Also, myself, Jamie and Rob all work in the same studio, Hope Street Studios.
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Are you involved with it much beyond the cover work, at all?
Not yet when they were putting the first issue together I was still under exclusive contract with DC.
As you say, I started onElectric Soup, which was exactly that a Scottish, adult humour title.
Its not really like work!
So youve just completedAll-Star Superman what was it that drew you to that project?
But obviously, give the same script to ten different artists and youll get ten very different looking books.
Were there any specific influences you drew on for the look of Superman in particular?
What was the story there?
And I daresay if Id pressed Grant, I would have got some philosophical rant, but I didnt!
Is there any kind of line you stop yourself at when it comes to the level of detail?
At the risk of having things thrown at me, the line is the deadline!
Theres a balancing act.
Is that an ongoing development in your style, or more of a one-off experiment?
To an extent it was a kind of natural progression of the way Id been going since I started.
You do a lot in the way of covers work is there a different approach to that?
And do you find that more or less satisfying than interior work?
They both have different rewards I wouldnt like to be restricted to only doing interiors or only doing covers.
Its a completely different set of challenges.
Because coming from a non-comics background, art to me was about creating something.
What youre doing is still creating new lines on top of the pencils.
So he does a light and a dark scan, and blends the two of them.
So its swings and roundabouts, really.
Not yet, really.
But more on that later!
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