The World of Edena

"And this was when I discovered Mœbius and his dark stories. I found out that comic artists use brushes–not pens–to paint their work. This was a revelation of sorts to me. Chris Riddell is a great master of the fine brush. The European comic artists have a different style–they don’t use the thick line of the Americans–they use a finer line. It’s such a different style of drawing that you just didn’t see in the American comics. And a slight weirdness. The layouts are distinctive too. The colours are subtle and very expressive–pinks, purples and browns. The different comic book artists also have very individually distinctive styles–some are scribbly and relaxed, others more formalised, some make use of cross-hatching. But Mœbius has such an imagination–lovely line work. He has the same sort of imagination as Philip Pullman–or writers like this. The storytelling with the pictures is so compelling."