The Forbidden Planet blog has an extensive interview up with Kane and Jack Staff creator Paul Grist:
MB: Have you always been into comics and which artists and comics were particularly inspirational?
PG: The short answer is yes. Ever since I can remember comics have always been around. I had an older brother and he had comics, and so I had comics. The ones that made the biggest impression on me were comics like TV21 and artists like Frank Bellamy and Mike Noble. They were the artists that I would look at as a small child and think, ‘Yeah!!!’ They made me want to draw comics really.
MB: You’ve developed quite a different style from those artists despite their influence.
PG: They were the ones that made me want to draw comics, but there were other artists who, if you like, I stole things from, but inspirationally they [artists such as Frank Bellamy and Mike Noble] were the ones that I was looking at when I was a very small child. Then, later on, you come to the artists that actually make you realise how things are done artistically. When I was a late teenager that was artists like Frank Miller and Dave Sim. They were a lot more motivational in giving me ideas about how to draw.
