Best known for penning the comic book series based on the science fiction drama 'X-Files', Harris is in India to participate in the sixth edition of the Delhi Comic Con that began here today.
The artist, who "reads a lot, watches films and pays attention to the world around him," says he did not vote for Trump and the results have made him "angry".
"I am ashamed (of the outcome). I am still trying to figure out the best way to use my talent and my resources and my position to do the best job of tackling this issue. I am not entirely sure how I am going to do it yet, but I am very very angry at the position my country is in," he told PTI in an interview today.
Having written for both the leading comic book publishers in the United States - DC Comics and Marvel comics - and authored scripts for popular characters like X-men, Spiderman and Batman, he confesses that the superhero genre is not his "focus".
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A "big fan" of science fiction as well as horror, Harris
says it is speculative fiction that he would like to explore more.
"I like speculative fiction in general. It is a broader idea where you can take a real world concept and make it fantastical, to make a point about reality. It's about being political with the intention to send out a message.
"Sometimes you can be very passionate about something that is political, and that's not necessarily a turn off, but that might not be as entertaining, if something is that hard-pressed in reality," he says.
The aim was to showcase how two countries can be similar even if they were enemies, he says.
"Firestorm had an international cast. So, there was a French Firestorm...There was even an Indian Firsetorm. They all had similar powers of being able to harness nuclear energy.
"But, they were agents of their particular countries. The superpowers sort of became secondary. I was more interested in the international relations and the geo-politics, trying not being too dry and boring," he says.
"That's the goal...Not everything gets that level. Most things are starting off as comics and then we try to exploit the rights in other media and develop them into television production or a screen development," he says.
He is currently working on a new Image comic series - a supernatural Rock-n-Roll thriller featuring investigators delving into the urban legends and histories of the music genre.
The Comic Con is set to continue till December 11.