- Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #9 with Brian Bendis. Peter Parker visits the Baxter Building and the Fantastic Four is in it. It's a really fun, over the top wacky comedy issue. I'm actually havin' a blast drawing all this superhero/Jack Kirby shit. They're giving me a lotta freedom on the project, which is nice.

2) Any plans to do more mainstream comics?

- We'll see what happens after Marvel Team-Up comes out. Who knows, maybe Marvel will give me my own X book or somethin. I'm drawing a black and white Batman story that Brian Azzarello wrote for me. It'll be in the back of that Gotham Nights book. That's mainstream, right?

3) Who would you most like to collaborate with?

- I really enjoy doin' work with my friends, ya know? My studio mates in 40oz Comics. Hopefully, one day Mike Huddleston and I will be able to do a book together. We've been talkin' about it forever. We used to work together, back in our art school days. I must've inked hundreds of pages of that guys art and hardly any of it ever saw print. I wanna do more stuff with Scott Morse, Troy Nixey, Kelley Seda; all those kids are incredibly talented. I wanna do more stuff with Brian Azzarello and that crazy fucker Bendis as well. It's worth doin' a gig with Bendis just so you can talk to him at night on the phone. He's got some great stories. We'll talk late at night and I'll just sit there at my drawing table and Bendis will talk and talk.

4) Any plans to do more work with Kevin Smith?

- I don't know. Nothing has been offered to me. I just did a two-page map of New Jersey for the all-Kevin issue of Wizard that's comin' out this summer. That was pretty fun.

5) Who are your biggest influences? (not just in comics, musically, artistically and otherwise)

- Jesus, this list could go on and on and on until the end of time. Hmmmm....let's just name a few okay? The Hernandez Bros., Jamie Hewlett, Vaughn and Mark Bode, Jack Kirby, Mignola, Crumb, Kyle Baker, Bruce Timm, Craig Thompson, Dan Clowes, Keith Haring, Basquiat, Twist, Futura 2000, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Bad Brains, Fishbone, Peter Tosh, the Bombshelter DJ's, DJ Shadow, Logic, Cut Chemist, J5, Medeski, Martin, and Wood, KRS ONE, Noam Chompsky, Bill Hicks (the greatest!!), Chris Rock, George Carlin, William Upski, Peter Kuper and Seth Tobacman from World War 3 Magazine, my mom, Augustus Pablo, Lee Perry, King Tubby, Fela Kuti and Africa 70, etc.

6) What comics do you buy? (if any)

- 100 Bullets, which I think is one of the best damn books out there right now, the new Love and Rockets, anything by Mignola, Duncan Fegrado, Craig Thompson, I dig the Ultimate shit that Bendis is writing, I dig all the Oni books, anything by Andi Watson, all my other friends I mentioned above, Chynna Clugston-Major's stuff rocks, Herobear, LCD by Kieron Dwyer and company, etc.

7) Your work is quite diverse, from comics to illustration to murals etc.. any plans to focus on just one of these aspects? Any favourites? Or anything else you'd like to branch into?

- I like to stay busy as an artist. During the day I enjoy workin' hard on comics. I do the occasional freelance job, whether it's designing a flyer for a club in town or doin' an album cover for a DJ or a group or whetever. Then I try to get out at least once a week and perform live in the clubs. It's important to me to get out there and be part of the performance. Music moves me and totally influences the way I think and make art. So I like to do the live shit in clubs because it's totally loose and unplanned. The music determines what the finished art will actually look like. It's the exact opposite of workin' on tight comic book stuff for eight hours a day. I don't really like one aspect of making art better than the next. These forms of expression are all equally important to me. I have to say the comics stuff is really good for a person like me, though. I'm not much of a people person, so there's nothin' I like better than lockin' myself in my apartment, cranking up the music, and drawing without the interuption of people or other dumb shit.

8) What materials do you use for your comic work?

- Pencils, paper, ink, brushes, a large bong. Ya know, the usual....

9) What advice could you give to people starting out?

- Lock yourself in a room for a whole year and draw your little ass off. Draw until your fingers bleed. Draw from life, draw from photos, draw the furniture in your house. Carry a sketchbook with you wherever you go and draw at all times. Take a live figure drawing class at your local community college. Drawing from live nude models is the best for understanding the human anatomy and how it works.

10) If you could be any monster, what would you be and what would you destroy/terrorise?

- Oh, I'd be one of those bad ass Shogun Warriors! Remember those giant toys when we were kids? Their hands would shoot out little plastic missles n shit. Totally awesome. So yea, I'd be a Shogun Warrior and I'd destroy Kathy Lee Giffard's sweat shops in whatever country they're in.

11) What's your favourite thing you have worked on to date?

- Probably Voodoom with Scott Morse. It was the first book I worked on that didn't feel like work. It was really fun and it just flowed, ya know? It was so cool to talk to Scott on the phone about a bunch of random ideas and then actually get half-finished pages in the mail from him. I'd add my stuff and then send the shit back to him. When it was all said and done, I think we were both really happy with the finished product.