In PROSE, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In GRAPHIC novels, you're WRITING haiku-length DIALOGUE. Your job is to be efficient, to GET out of the way of the art.

The script for what would eventually become my first GRAPHIC novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in KIND of a bolt of lightning within 24 HOURS of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of CHARACTERS and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

I'm an ARTIST. So if acting doesn't WORK out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something LIKE that.

I was an ARTS STUDENT. I did graphic DESIGN. Being an artist, I did a LOT of paintings. I have ALWAYS had that creative side to me.

This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic NOVELS with First SECOND BOOKS, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very DIFFERENT from monthly comics.

The name Holly Fulton has BECOME synonymous with daring, bold GRAPHIC PRINTS which you just know if you WEAR you'll have a BRILLIANT time in.

I was at GROUND Zero, and it was, to me, such a GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION of what TERRORISM has done to our WORLD.

I was always interested in art at school, and after YEAR TWELVE, senior year, I spent three years studying graphic design at college. I worked in advertising for two years but didn't LIKE it much, then BEGAN doing a bit of illustration work for various publishers.

I WOULD LIKE to champion diverse FORMS like graphic NOVELS and works told in verse and diverse WRITERS and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

What HAPPENED I THINK on Sept. 11 was we were GIVEN graphic and clear evidence that things had CHANGED.

The Hewitt sisters were these AMAZING - both SORT of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in GRAPHIC design in order to teach PEOPLE about design.

It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a REASONABLE degree of GRAPHIC EFFECT, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the INTEREST we all FEEL in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

Writing a graphic NOVEL is HARD. It FEELS closer to a SCREEN play than to a novel.

'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably TRYING to keep the sound TRUE to the novels. I ALWAYS write in first person, and it was important to us that the READERS of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the CHANGE over to a graphic novel.

I've read comics all my LIFE and have WANTED to write a comic for as long as I can REMEMBER. Alex Barnaby and SAM Hooker seemed like the perfect team to make the move into the GRAPHIC medium.