GAIMAN: The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There’s whoever’s writing it and whoever’s drawing it. And then there’s whoever’s reading it because they are creating the movement. They are creating the illusion of time passing. There’s a wonderful moment in Scott McCloud’s book, “Understanding Comics,” where he shows a man standing behind a woman – or possibly vice versa, I don’t remember – with an ax. And then the next panel is a cutaway to the building they’re in and a scream. And he points out that you, as a reader, just murdered the character. He didn’t do it. And that, for me, is the joy of comics. Your imagination needs to do an awful lot.

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