"And you're right, the model is changing in many ways, and I don't want to keep doing work-for-hire, piecemeal stuff where you get your little bit of money to design, and then someone else owns the franchise, and you're creating everything for them, and you're just waiting for that next job, and hopefully that next job will come. It's always chasing other people's ideas, and for me that's why it was so important to keep trying other things. I realized we live in the greatest time ever, where if I want to create an app, I can do it. If I want to publish my own book, I can do it. That's what's exciting to me, and that's why I do it."
"That's why I'm a firm believer in entrepreneurship and building your own brand and creating something where you can deal directly with the consumer. The consumer is the one with all the control. They're the one who makes the choice whether they want to buy this drawing or that drawing, this book or that book, this T-shirt or that T-shirt. It doesn't matter where they get it. And more stuff is going online. I can get whatever I want online, and I can go directly to the artist I like."
Character designer Stephen Silver is interviewed in the latest issue of
Draw! magazine, now out in comics shops and available
online (including a .pdf version) from the publisher.
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