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Cartooning is an honorable thing
Cartooning is an honorable thing.
I still love a lot of the guys who just paint
I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.
If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special
Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects
If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special.
Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects.
And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client
I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants
And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.
I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.
But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression
But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.
So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will
Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.
To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.
So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.
So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it
So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.
Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.
There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.
For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.
You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff
So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.
And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.
That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.
So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different
So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different.