The French comic industry takes itself way too seriously. They consider themselves big artists but once you adopt that attitude, it’s the beginning of the end.
A six-page spread by Jim Lee with Batman beating the smile off the Joker’s face is the four-color equivalent of Keith Richards’s opening guitar blast on ”Satisfaction”. I […]
When I’m doing drawings, I feel like I have all these other people’s drawing inside of me that I’m trying to fight to find my drawing. A lot […]
One thing I realized (along the way) is that there is absolutely no need to kiss ass and be overly friendly in comics, especially at Marvel. Just do […]
Comic books can probably be best understood if they are looked upon as an expression of the folklore of this age. They may be compared with the mythology, […]
Sequential art isn’t great art, or profound. But it is sophisticated, engaging us in a way that other visual genres cannot. And within its limited format, it allows […]
In a time when comic book geeks are actually getting laid and cute girls are parading around the convention halls in next to nothing to emulate their favorite […]
It was gratifying when I went back to Hawaii for my first [Usagi Yojimbo] book signing. It was crowded. There were kids everywhere. My Dad said, “Okay, I […]
The reason is if you look at the generation now in power in the entertainment industry, they grew up with comics as serious stuff. The geeks have won.
The medium has become the message; comics take either a hard line or a soft line, simplifying human feelings and behaviour to suit mass taste.
Every atom of every object of every scene is malleable by the [comic book] artist: hair, furniture, cars, trees can all be bent and twisted and arranged for […]
He [Roy Lichtenstein] was also fascinated by the “language” of comics, the juxtaposition of words or word balloons with an image set within a defined frame, and the […]
Comic artists have in my experience the toughest, least regarded, poorest paid most isolating and labor-intensive art-related job you can get. We have, without question, to be able […]