I was just as crazy as everybody else post-Watergate, post-Vietnam. Jim Starlin More Quotes by Jim Starlin More Quotes From Jim Starlin Very little other than Elmore Leonard's crime writing inspiring me on my Batman run. Jim Starlin run me crime writing 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. Jim Starlin universe relationship long death As time went on, Thanos just sort of grew organically on his own. Jim Starlin his own just time When I started in the comic book business, 'Art Of' books were strictly the provenance of the greats, like Rembrandt and Da Vinci. But times change, and so do attitudes. Now the comic is considered an art form, and I hope 'A Life in Words and Pictures' contributes a little to that art form's history. Jim Starlin change hope life history 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. Jim Starlin say being like war You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement. Jim Starlin person you movement religion Thanos came to me while I was taking a psychology class in college after coming out of the service; the ol' Thanos/Eros concept. Jim Starlin me service college class If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today. Jim Starlin good drawing chance today 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. Jim Starlin see cool nice work My only surprise when I saw Thanos up on the screen was how violet he was. I always saw his exposed hide as being more grayish violet. Jim Starlin hide being always surprise I found that the artist market was expanding in comics. Marvel was going from something like eight books a month to somewhere in the 20s. As a result of this expansion, Marvel, in particular, was hiring anyone who could hold a pencil. That's how I got my first job there. Jim Starlin pencil result job artist 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. Jim Starlin talk always dark want Looking back, it's embarrassing, shang-Chi was a creation at a time when not only was there a limited outlook among a lot of folks as far as what the world was about, but we were very limited in what could be done technologically. Jim Starlin Steve Englehart's quite a moral character in a very corrupt world, much the same way that Captain America was. Jim Starlin
