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Bill Sienkiewicz

Bill Sienkiewicz

American Artist

Born: May 3, 1958

Because Comics Just Me Work You

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To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across. Bill Sienkiewicz

Me Almost Coming Irrelevant Across Technique

To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach. Bill Sienkiewicz

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic. Bill Sienkiewicz

Service You Draw Magic Effects Story Really Special Special Effects

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. Bill Sienkiewicz

Truth Me Exaggeration Honorable Cartooning Something Through Envelope Pushing Thing

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something. Bill Sienkiewicz

You Nothing Something Driven Committee Just Produce Really Media Actually

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident. Bill Sienkiewicz

If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special. Bill Sienkiewicz

Me Inspire Somebody Feels Really Special

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar. Bill Sienkiewicz

Enough Books Top Kind Given Were Sellers Radar Lucky

I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants. Bill Sienkiewicz

Took Constrained Feel Want

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra. Bill Sienkiewicz

New Because Doing Covers Lot Version Elektra

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story. Bill Sienkiewicz

Style Way Several Respecting About Only Demands Styles Still Done May Different Story Which Mean Really Using Different Styles

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube. Bill Sienkiewicz

You Reading Instead Simultaneously Comics Tube Just Assimilating Image Watching

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression. Bill Sienkiewicz

Avenue Smaller Still Comics Personal Personal Expression Expression

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will. Bill Sienkiewicz

Work Will Own Tell My Own Want Stories Produce Then Really

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say. Bill Sienkiewicz

Me You Avenue Say Main Attraction Comics Want

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client. Bill Sienkiewicz

Never Client Comics Viewed Assignments

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators. Bill Sienkiewicz

Art School Art School Being After

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