the world's comic artists using Twitter, and noted that you were part of a growing U.K. contingent at this year's SPX. How'd that go? I had a great SPX, thanks, met lots of great people, among them Jaime Hernandez, who's a complete hero of mine. It's been a long long time sine I attended a convention and had something in print. Back in the days of Deadline I don't remember us ever sitting behind tables all day like everyone does now. Seems a lot more civilized these days, but maybe that's just me. A sketch of Maggie drawn for Glyn at SPX by Jaime Hernandez We should probably talk about the quantum leap in your art style since readers would have last seen it in the mid-'90s. Obviously your technique is now radically different, but what about the newer influences you were exposed to in the interim. To be honest, I wasn't exposed to too many new comic influences, I just drew an awful lot of storyboards in that time, and by doing so, a style developed that I was much more comfortable with. Back in the early '90s I was a big fan of Hugo Pratt, Moebius and Katsuhiro Otomo -- none of that has changed. But having said that, whilst I was writing the script for Nao , I started reading more manga and I think that may have had an effect on my storytelling to some degree. Manga is quite filmic and I suppose coming back after