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Jim Starlin
Jim Starlin
American Artist
Born: Oct 9, 1949
Always Life Me Time Work You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
The founding fathers of the U.S. were right when they erected that wall between church and state. Jim Starlin
Church State Fathers Church And State Between Were Wall Founding Founding Fathers Right
When I was a kid, there was this neighborhood beer and wine store that sold old comics for a nickel a piece. I'd load up on old books whenever we went on vacation. Yeah, I have a lot of fond memories of riding in the back of the ol' station wagon and reading 'Mystery in Space' and 'Strange Adventures' as we headed up to Torch Lake. Jim Starlin
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Thanos was the first character I ever created professionally. He's always been the baby I return to whenever I work with Marvel. Jim Starlin
Work Character First Baby Marvel He Return Always Been Whenever Created Professionally Ever
I consider 'Dreadstar' to be an extension of my family, so it took me a while to feel comfortable letting anyone else take care of this project. Jim Starlin
Family Me Care Else Took Consider Project Take Take Care Feel Comfortable Anyone Anyone Else While Letting Extension
When I started writing 'Batman,' I lobbied heavily to get rid of Robin - or at least not use him in the stories I wrote. Fighting crime with a teenager dressed in primary colors while you're sporting a gray-and-black outfit always struck me as child endangerment, if not abuse. Jim Starlin
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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
Death Relationship Chapter Heroes Will Long Just Be Universe Final Considering Exactly Marvel He Sure Mistress His Just Plague Might
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
War Desperate Say Folks Stuck Onto Long-Running Like Times Afloat Middle Being Anything Them Might Grasp Keep
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
Today Good Writing Guess Drawing Outlet Had Around Comics Good Chance Chance
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
Work Worth Big Nice Recognized See Seeing Something Beyond Printed Up Very Big Screen Screen Being Page Cool
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 Saw More Only He Always How Surprise His Up Screen Being Exposed Violet
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
Dark Our Ourselves About Talk Within Always Souls Want Spaces Acknowledge Honest
There's a character, Eon, I did back in the 'Captain Marvel' story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere. Jim Starlin
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I never imagined people like Thanos and Warlock would be drawn into films. They're weird characters in weird stories. Luckily, the twisted kids who read those weird stories are now the twisted adults who are making movies. Jim Starlin
People Films Those Kids Drawn Characters Would Would-Be Adult Never Weird Like Read Making Making Movies Stories Movies Who Luckily Now Twisted Imagined
I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out. Jim Starlin
School Way Out Parochial Catholic Lot Up Very Working Grown Grown-Up Things
If you look back on my career with Marvel, you will see that I don't really return to the House of Ideas to do Captain Marvel, Adam Warlock, and Silver Surfer stories. I always come back to the fold to tell further adventures of everyone's favorite Mad Titan. Jim Starlin
You Will Back Everyone Further Favorite Mad Tell Fold See Silver Marvel Adventures Come Ideas Look House Return Always Stories Really Captain Adam Career
I've been influenced by so many different writers along the way - from Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, John D. McDonald, and so many others - that it would take a page or two to list them all. Jim Starlin
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I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc. Jim Starlin
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It's a real honor to have my stories up on the big silver screen, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. It's great fun flying out to L.A. for premieres and meeting all the actors and directors. Jim Starlin
Great Honor Big Meeting Hundreds Flying Great Fun Out Cost Silver Directors Real Dollars Up Screen Stories Fun Actor Millions Millions Of Dollars
My well-meaning parents decided to send me to a Catholic grade school to get a better education than I probably would have received at the local public school. They had no way of knowing that the school nuns, who were the majority of the teachers at this particular parochial school, were right-wing, card-carrying John Birch Society members. Jim Starlin
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Vietnam affected everything in life while it went on. My time in the service made it clear to me that what we were being told in our newspapers and newscasts, back in the States, wasn't half the story of what was really going on. Jim Starlin
Life Service Time Me Made Half Back Our Everything States My Time Clear Were Affected Going Being Story While Newspapers Really Vietnam
The downside of word processing - it's quite possible to never end a work-in-progress. Jim Starlin
Word Possible Never End Quite Processing Downside
Most times, life or death is the highest stake a person can play for. Jim Starlin
Life Death Highest Most Times Person Stake Play

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