 And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say. |
| I still love a lot of the guys who just paint. |
| 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. |
| Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra. |
| I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants. |
| I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work. |
| After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators. |
| So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. |
| To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across. |
| If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it. |
| If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special. |
| 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. |
| But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube. |
| You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace. |
| 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. |
| I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff. |
| 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. |
| So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic. |
| There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work. |
| 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. |
