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After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
But there’s still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.
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.
So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.
So there’s kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.
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.
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.
To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
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.
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It’s an avenue to say what you want to say.
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.
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.
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.
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.
You’re telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.
Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects.
Kyle Baker’s work is really funny, but it’s also got a very clear vision.
