JB - Regarding the statement about only seeing the giants who influenced you in your work, like Kubert, Adams, Kane, etc, do you compartmentalize that in your mind?  Such as figures are like Kubert, faces like Adams, perspective like Kane, etc?  Or have the influences melted into each other?

Back in art school, I had a Professor who repeated someone else’s quote “If you imitate one artist, you are ‘derivative’.  If you imitate two artists you are influenced’.  If you imitate three artists you are ‘original’.”