From 'The Sandman' and 'Black Orchid' to 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?,' Neil Gaiman has provided some of the most memorable stories of the comic book industry.
'Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future.
From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.
Superheroes are modern mythological characters, so you're going to make them look impossible. Even my Krypto The Superdog is the idealisation of the canine form.
A-list stars go to Comic-Con to woo the nerd demographic.
Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.
I don't think you can be a comic book fan and not hate change.
When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.
If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of.
I don't think you can measure your love or your passion for whatever you're working on.
I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.
Wonder Woman is a lot of fun to draw.
Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's weird: the more advanced they get, the faker it looks.
I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.
I don't buy comics anymore, for the most part. I eat my lunch off of them.
I think sometimes with new characters, you can kind of hit a creative valley, and it's important to recognize when you're in that valley so you can get back out and get back to that peak.
More often than not, the fans really gravitate towards who's on the cover as opposed to how it's drawn or how it's composed, and so, a lot of the time, what an artist likes will be very different from what a fan likes.
The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for.
I love the fact that I get something new to do almost every day and have new challenges.
Superman tends to stand very upright, and he's very symmetrical, and those are actually the most difficult poses for me to draw.
