Dave Gibbons Quotes

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• In God’s economy, vision should move from the fringes to the middle.
• With the new game I'm going to be involved from the ground up. I have had story input and the whole thing will have my…
• The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC's reasons for this initiative…
• I generally like very visually striking films. I love a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. I would have to say 'Dr. Strangelove', which of course…
• I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll…
• I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw…
• I think with something like 'Watchmen' you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper…
• I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a…
• Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.
• I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all…
• Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.
• I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for…
• There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator…
• If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.
• If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil…
• To my mind, the most successful and the best comic book illustrators are those who translate the real world into a consistent code. If you…
• One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of…
• Madefire is igniting a new era by creating a modern, dynamic reading experience and bringing that to the millions of iPad users around the world.

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