Words matter. These are the best Jim Starlin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I never imagined people like Thanos and Warlock would be drawn into films. They’re weird characters in weird stories. Luckily, the twisted kids who read those weird stories are now the twisted adults who are making movies.
My father worked in Chrysler’s drafting department and used to bring home tracing paper, No. 2 pencils, and masking tape from the office. With these, I used to trace off drawings from the ‘Superman’ and ‘Batman’ comics and put them up on my bedroom walls.
The downside of word processing – it’s quite possible to never end a work-in-progress.
Back in my high school years, the Hulk was my favorite Marvel character, and I always enjoy drawing him.
Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.
I had worked on Thanos, created him back even before I started working at Marvel.
It’s a real honor to have my stories up on the big silver screen, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. It’s great fun flying out to L.A. for premieres and meeting all the actors and directors.
It has taken some time, but I know I’ve put my trust in the right team, and I’m excited to collaborate with Universal Cable Productions and Benderspink to bring ‘Dreadstar”s unique brand of chaos to television.
It’s nice to see my work recognized as being worth something beyond the printed page, and it was very cool seeing Thanos up on the big screen.
I got rid of Warlock’s lightning bolt because… it was a real pain to draw.
I’d like to have had a bigger piece of Thanos than I do, but when the first ‘Avengers’ movie came out, Marvel and I – we renegotiated some things, so I get a taste out of this thing. I’m not becoming the next Bill Gates, but I’m getting a little something out of it.
You don’t have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.
Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery.
If you look back on my career with Marvel, you will see that I don’t really return to the House of Ideas to do Captain Marvel, Adam Warlock, and Silver Surfer stories. I always come back to the fold to tell further adventures of everyone’s favorite Mad Titan.
As time went on, Thanos just sort of grew organically on his own.
I was just as crazy as everybody else post-Watergate, post-Vietnam.
There’s a character, Eon, I did back in the ‘Captain Marvel’ story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere.
Vietnam affected everything in life while it went on. My time in the service made it clear to me that what we were being told in our newspapers and newscasts, back in the States, wasn’t half the story of what was really going on.
Not exactly sure there can be a final chapter to Thanos, considering what he is and his relationship with Mistress Death. Might just be that as long as there is a Marvel, there will be a Thanos to plague that universe’s heroes.
It’s hard to say, but I think Warlock is the closest thing Thanos has to a friend.
Thanos and Adam Warlock are two of a kind because they’re both sort of out of the norm: out of the circle of life and death that falls on top of everyone else. Both have had multiple deaths and resurrections, and they always seem to get pulled in as key players for cosmic events.
Very little other than Elmore Leonard’s crime writing inspiring me on my Batman run.
I didn’t like characters that were one- or two-dimensional. I liked a guy to have a lot of different levels to him and layers, and I think I pretty well succeeded with Thanos.
I’d grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.
Life itself is inspiration.
When I started writing ‘Batman,’ I lobbied heavily to get rid of Robin – or at least not use him in the stories I wrote. Fighting crime with a teenager dressed in primary colors while you’re sporting a gray-and-black outfit always struck me as child endangerment, if not abuse.
Thanos came to me while I was taking a psychology class in college after coming out of the service; the ol’ Thanos/Eros concept.
I’ve been influenced by so many different writers along the way – from Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, John D. McDonald, and so many others – that it would take a page or two to list them all.
When folks are in desperate times – say, like being stuck in the middle of a long-running interplanetary war – they grasp onto anything that might keep them afloat.
We all – if we are honest with ourselves, we all have these dark spaces within our souls that we don’t always want to talk about or acknowledge.
