Klaus Janson had a long run as a Daredevil artist and is celebrated for his work with Frank Miller. His art can be seen in other Marvel books like Wolverine, Black Panther, Avengers, and several Spider-Man titles. He also spent plenty of time with DC on Superman and Jemm, Detective Comics, and other Batman books. Between meeting fans at Baltimore Comic-Con, Janson talked to Scoop about conventions and his career in comics.

Scoop: Good afternoon, are you having fun at the show?
Klaus Janson (KJ): Extraordinarily so.

Scoop: What do you find most appealing about drawing characters like Daredevil and Batman?
KJ: I like the setting. I like the cities that they live in. I like Gotham very much. I live in New York, so Daredevil’s New York is very much my New York. My view outside of my window and my studio is the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building lots of water towers that I’ve swiped 100 times. So I like it very, very much. I’m into architecture and I think that the cities and the environment is a character unto themselves.

Scoop: Would you pick a title based on the architecture of the city?
KJ: Yes, I would, absolutely. Yeah.

Scoop: What advice would you give to aspiring inkers?
KJ: Learn how to pencil. Learn how to draw. The best inkers are the ones who understand how to draw. If you don’t know how to draw and you want to ink, then you’re just a tracer. You need to learn how to draw with ink.

Scoop: What are you working on now?
KJ: I just finished a Last Halloween that Jeff Loeb wrote, which is the Last Halloween story that Tim Sale and Jeff Loeb have been doing for a couple of decades. This was a story that Tim and Jeff were going to do, and Tim passed away. It’s eight issues, eight different artists, Jeff wrote all of them. Eduardo Risso penciled and inked the first one, and I did the second one. It looks great.

Scoop: Are there any titles you haven’t worked on yet that you would really like to?
KJ: Silver Surfer, yeah.

Scoop: What does it mean to you to be able to talk to fans at shows like this?
KJ: You know, it means everything, actually. I’m fascinated by people. I’m interested in what people are thinking, what they’re doing, what their habits are, what they’re reading, what they’re buying. I discovered this convention weekend that there’s more anime than ever before. I knew it was growing, but I thought maybe it had plateaued. Apparently not. So that was an interesting piece of information.

Scoop: What do you like about Baltimore con?
KJ: First of all, I like Baltimore. It’s not New York and not Maybury, but right in between, which I like a lot. And I like the fact that the Baltimore con is one of the friendliest conventions that comics produces, and it’s always lived up to that. It’s nice.

Scoop: Are you doing any more conventions this year?
KJ: I am doing New York and Belgium and then I have a gallery showing in Lyon, France at the end of November. And that’s it for this year.

Scoop: Well, thank you so much.
KJ: You’re very welcome.