Bill Sienkiewicz Quotes

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects.

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.

I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.

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.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

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

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special.

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.