On comics, illustration and graphic design

Beth Davis interviewed Gipi : http://www.brokenfrontier.com/columns/details.php?id=697 Broken Frontier: You have a remarkable ability to capture expressive gestures – a finger tapping, a chin lifted – with such apparent ease. What inspires this? Gipi: I'm pretty obsessed with the need to transfer life into the characters I create. I often ask myself where the idea of "life" resides in human beings. Which aspects or gesture should I choose to show to give the "idea of life" to the character I'm drawing? I think this "life" resides in the little gestures, in the ticks, in the little movements of an arm, or a hand. Personally, I'm really nervous and I'm always doing something with my fingers and I often find myself doing one thing and looking at another one. It's this idea of movement and confusion I'm trying to represent in my drawings. In my mind, movement and life go together, so I try to "move" everything. BF: Sometimes...