My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling. Jonathan Hickman More Quotes by Jonathan Hickman More Quotes From Jonathan Hickman I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad. Jonathan Hickman reading book years An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in. Jonathan Hickman fever ambitious dream I think that, whether you liked the outcome or not, the reasons for doing Ultimatum were necessary. The Ultimate Universe had become too much like the regular Marvel Universe, and that was certainly not a good thing for the line. Jonathan Hickman lines outcomes thinking When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better. Jonathan Hickman old-things faces sun The things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite us. Jonathan Hickman divides stronger You're either on team Republican or team Democrat, and it's the idea that one of these sides has a perfect record of being correct and is worth supporting on 100% of the causes. I find that kind of thinking extremely dangerous and very intellectually dishonest. Jonathan Hickman you team perfect thinking The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party. Jonathan Hickman earth remember birthday book As far as personal philosophies go, I think you should know your ending. I know that's radically different from a lot of other writers who just organically like to find the story. Other than that, I try different things and mess around. I'm still just playing a good bit. Jonathan Hickman ending good think you I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist. Jonathan Hickman you always book school I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control. Jonathan Hickman control thought artist writing There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you're ready to let it go. Jonathan Hickman you nice long art '100 Bullets' is probably my favorite thing, ever. It's pretty close with early 'Hellboy' stuff. Jonathan Hickman close pretty early bullets The thing that probably trips me up the most are people getting tattoos of stuff that I've designed in my books. That always spins me out in a weird way. It seems like such a permanent commitment to something I've done. I don't know that I could do that for anyone else. Jonathan Hickman weird me people way I do believe that sci-fi or historical fiction finds an easy home in comics because there are no budget constraints in regards to the necessary world-building or visual effects necessary to bring those stories to life in other mediums. Jonathan Hickman easy home life believe I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work. Jonathan Hickman architecture college work art Artwise, I'm kind of a chameleon. I don't have an established style or anything like that. Jonathan Hickman anything like chameleon style I think it's good that we're not embarrassed that we're comic book creators anymore. It's good that people are able to make a good living at doing it, and not doing the traditional sort of mainstream fare. Jonathan Hickman good think book people
