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For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States

Bill Sienkiewicz

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
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Artist Irrelevant Technique
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
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Artist Black Paint White
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
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Art Illustrators School
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
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
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
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff
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Artist Stuff Wanted
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
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
Cartooning is an honorable thing
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Artist Cartooning Honorable
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
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 much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
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Artist Filled Missing
And I’ve never viewed comics as assignments for the client
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Artist Assignment Clients
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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