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I Respond Very Well To Rules. If There Are Certain Parameters It's Much Easier To Do Something Really Good. Especially When Readers Know What Those Are. They Know What To Expect And Then You Have To Wrong-foot Them. That Is The Trick Of Crime Fiction. And Readers Come To Crime And Graphic Novels Wanting To Be Entertained, Or Disgusted.

To Have A Very Strong Opinion All The Time Is Corrosive To A Person's Intellect. It Becomes Your Default Position.

I Think Graphic Novels Are Closer To Prose Than Film, Which Is A Really Different Form.

I Always Wanted To Work At Take A Break Magazine, You Know, Just To Inject A Little Bit Of Politics Into Their Stories. I Applied For A Job There After I'd Done My Law Degree And Didn't Even Get An Interview. I Only Wrote Garnethill Because I Didn't Get That Job!

There's A Real Emphasis On Being Witty In Scotland, Even In Crime Novels.