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 novel and it also is the complete story. Dave Gibbons More Quotes by Dave Gibbons More Quotes From Dave Gibbons 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 or pen in your hand. Dave Gibbons sitting-down want hands Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world. Dave Gibbons helping people world 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 draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes. Dave Gibbons drawing jobs character People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of Watchmen as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form. Dave Gibbons illustration book thinking 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 comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out. Dave Gibbons real art school If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through. Dave Gibbons vision artist thinking 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 2.' Dave Gibbons numbers two fiction 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 yourself. Dave Gibbons surprise reader steps In God’s economy, vision should move from the fringes to the middle. Dave Gibbons fringe vision moving 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 these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English. Dave Gibbons italian book thinking Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners. Dave Gibbons learning-from-others esoteric fields 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 lot of the drudgery out of it. Dave Gibbons technology process way 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 has got resonance in 'Watchmen'. It's a favorite movie of mine. Dave Gibbons resonance drs film 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 and the wish of the artists and writers involved to pay tribute to our work. May these new additions have the success they desire. Dave Gibbons appreciate artist wish 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 imprint on it. Even if I don't hands-on do every bit of artwork, I certainly will direct the look of the whole thing. Dave Gibbons games hands looks Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling. Dave Gibbons rope awards winning One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw it as the writer takes to write it. In my career I've had to spend a week drawing something that a writer has thrown out in an hour. And there's nothing worse than having to work on something that no previous thought has gone into. Dave Gibbons you drawing work long With the 'Watchmen' comic, we attempted to tell it in an accessible way. I deliberately made the artwork very clear, deceptively so. You think you're sucking on a sweetie, but it turns out to be a sugar-coated chili. Dave Gibbons tell think you way When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty; it was the fireplugs in the street. These things that Jack Kirby had drawn. Or these cylindrical water towers on top of buildings that Steve Ditko's 'Spider-Man' fights used to happen in and around. Dave Gibbons street city new water You eventually come to the conclusion that there's only so much you can do with these established characters, and you start wondering who among us will be the one to create the next 'Superman' or 'Batman' or 'James Bond' or next 'Lone Ranger.' Dave Gibbons bond will start you
