I Don't Do A Comic

My Feeling Is That The Hero Has Now Been Defined By Phrases Like The Odious One That We Were All Raised With - Crimes Does Not Pay. Of Course It Pays, You Schmuck. That's Not Why We Don't Do It. We Don't Do It Because It Is Wrong.

In A Way, 'sin City''s Designed To Be Paced Somewhere Between An American Comic Book And Japanese Manga. Working In Black And White, I Realized That The Eye Is Less Patient, And You Have To Make Your Point, And Sometimes Repeat It. Slowing Things Down Is Harder In Black And White, Because There Isn't As Much For The Eye To Enjoy.

I Was Always Into Noir. When I Lived In Vermont I Was Drawing Stuff That Looked Like An Amateur Doing 'sin City'. When I First Got To New York I Was Swiftly Informed That They Only Did Guys In Tights.

I Thought Daredevil Was Kind Of Cool Because He Couldn't Do Anything. I Mean, He's Blind. It Wasn't That He Could Fly. His Major Power Was An Impediment. So I Was Intrigued. When I Took Over He Was Kind Of Like Spider-man-lite, But I Was Able To Project A Lot Of My Catholic Imagery Onto It. And I'd Always Wanted To Do A Crime Comic.

I Realized That I Was About To Turn 30, And Batman Was Permanently 29. And I Was Going To Be Damned If I Was Older Than Batman.