Andreas: I prefer to work alone and hesitate to involve others to help me. On the other hand I do have my limits and it can be refreshing to work with the ideas of others. It has given me the opportunity to make things I could never have made by myself.
That's why I made Dérives, with stories that have scenarios of different collegues. If you write a scenario for yourself you like to omit things you don't like to draw. I for one don't like to draw crowds. An other scenarist can make you do it anyway an thus you develop as a draftsman.
Dérives contains a short story of Frédéric Bézian. He added an element to my work that I could never have done myself. With him I would like to do an album sometime.

Andreas: I want to do as much different things as I can. I could never, like for example 'Morris', work my whole life in the same style. I also think different kinds of stories require different drawing techniques. It should correspond to the athmosphere.

Andreas: The prepublication in Métal Hurlant was interrupted after TouristeTouriste, the third story of Dérives after a scenario of my German friend Ferdinand Scholz. Later, when I was at Delcourt, he said to me: "He, we could publish those short stories you did for Métal." Then I added three more.

Andreas: I wanted to step away from my hobbies for once. I realized that I was closed in in my own genre and avoided certain subjects for the simple reason I didn't like to draw them. That's why I asked them to write whatever they wanted. Unfortunately more than one person made it a typical Andreas story. But one or two - especially Frédéric Bézian - really made something I could never have written myself. That gave me the opportunity to use different techniques to serve the scenario...and sometimes the scenarist. Because the story of Antonio Cossu is a bit like Cossu, the story of Bézian is like Bézian, his drawing style even influenced me somewhat. The same holds for Gérard Goffaux.