I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff
BILL SIENKIEWICZDo 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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After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
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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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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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So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
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Especially with Elektra, because I’m doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.
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But with comics you’re reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube
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Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something
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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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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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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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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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Cartooning is an honorable thing
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But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will
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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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And I’ve never viewed comics as assignments for the client
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