Bill Sienkiewicz quotes:
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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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Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.
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If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it
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Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision
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If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.
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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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And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client
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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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But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.
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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.
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So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.
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If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special.
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So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration
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I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants
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So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe
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After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
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So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
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People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to
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Cartooning is an honorable thing.
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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
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It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed
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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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So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.
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I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
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It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.
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But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.
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And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.
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So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.
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To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
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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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I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
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I still love a lot of the guys who just paint
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I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar
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But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression
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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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So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.
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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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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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And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.
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But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it
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But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will
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Cartooning is an honorable thing
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I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff
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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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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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If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special
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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
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Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects
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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