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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

Bill Sienkiewicz

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
So there’s kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe
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Artist Boundaries Pushing Safe
Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects
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Artist Blood Comic Respect
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
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
One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much
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Artist Movie World
To me, that’s one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that’s a completely different approach
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Day Different One Pieces
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
Cartooning is an honorable thing
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Artist Cartooning Honorable
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It’s an avenue to say what you want to say
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Artist Avenue Want
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
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
But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will
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Artist Stories Want
Especially with Elektra, because I’m doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.
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Artist Especially Versions
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
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Artist Black Paint White

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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