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So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it’s still about respecting the story
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Artist Mean Style
So there’s kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe
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Artist Boundaries Pushing Safe
Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident
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Artist Film Looks
And I’ve never viewed comics as assignments for the client
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Artist Assignment Clients
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something
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Artist Driven Media
But with comics you’re reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube
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Comic Reading Simultaneously Tubes
I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.
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Artist Stuff Want
Cartooning is an honorable thing
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Artist Cartooning Honorable
I still love a lot of the guys who just paint
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Guy Paint Stills
For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States
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Artist States World
But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will
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Artist Stories Want
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
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Art Illustrators School
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
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Artist Black Paint White
There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don’t want to work.
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Artist Movie People
To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
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Artist Irrelevant Technique
If you’re going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it
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Certain Levels Unreality

So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

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