What is it that’s gratifying about gallery or canvas art that can’t be found in comics?
As someone with an urge to tell stories and develop characters, how are these impulses played out within paintings? Do you ever feel the need to compress more information into your gallery pieces, to encode potential stories and background for the “character”? Paintings, to me, are almost like an inside joke because I set out with a story to ‘paint’ and that is my story to tell, but everyone sees something different in a painting, since there are no words – it is completely open to interpretation. I have to accept the fact that the story that I’m telling with my one image isn’t necessarily what other people are ’seeing’. The good thing about a painting is that I don’t have to give a narrative, but I can capture the essence of that story in a single frame. The negative can be a sense of disappointment when people don’t “get it”, especially when it is a story/painting that had a particularly strong meaning to me. What was it like working on “Billy Boom Boom” for the DS? How were you appr
