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Neal Adams

American Artist

Born: Jun 15, 1941

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I think that we want to believe in Superman. Neal Adams

Superman Believe Think Want

Nobody is looking for work who doesn't need work. That's why we look for work. Neal Adams

Work Looking Nobody Look Who Why Need

I really kind of always wondered, if I did Superman, what I would do, and what I would be able to do, because it's a little harder for me, being kind of a realistic guy, to imagine doing a character who almost has no limits to his powers. Neal Adams

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Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done. Neal Adams

You Sometimes Before Forced Cover Done Story

I live in New York and California, and I get to travel. Neal Adams

Travel Live New California Get York New York

When I was asked by Pacific Comics for an original creator-owned series, my first choice of those several characters was Ms. Mystic. Since I always try to advance the work of other younger creators, I asked the young Mike Nasser if he'd like to join me in this project. He said yes. Mike created nothing! Neal Adams

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Back in the olden days when we were rubbing sticks together, everybody wanted to have a comic strip, to live in Westport Connecticut, to have a Jaguar and to have a wife and two and a half kids and to have a girl in town in their studio in Manhattan that they'd romance, and then they'd have people ghost their strip. It was like this big dream. Neal Adams

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The thing about advertising is that you make more money. You can put kids through college so they don't come out with loans. My kids don't, and my grandkids don't, and advertising paid for that. Neal Adams

You Money College Kids Out About More Through Put Come Advertising Make Grandkids Paid Thing Loans

I love Captain Marvel. I'd love to see a Captain Marvel movie. Neal Adams

Love See Marvel Movie Captain

I like Captain America because I liked Captain America when I was younger. Neal Adams

Like Liked Because America Younger Captain Captain America

People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma. Neal Adams

People Tend Dogma Question Afraid Want

'The Dark Knight Rises,' it turns out, is a classic Batman epic. Neal Adams

Dark Batman Out Classic Rises Knight Epic Turns

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another. Neal Adams

Assume Way One-Way Wrong Know Most Another

Nobody has ever disproved Sam Carey's work. Neal Adams

Work Nobody Sam Ever Disproved

People are different from one another. That's what makes the world good. That's what makes the world great. Neal Adams

Good Great People World Another Makes Different

As far as I know, no kid ever bought a children's book himself with his own money, but they'll buy comic books. So we better make them good. Neal Adams

Times have changed. And as the audience changes, so do the superheroes. Neal Adams

Changed Changes Superheroes Audience Times

Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human. Neal Adams

Earth Easily Could Pass Human Professor

Motion comics are a medium all their own. It is certainly not animation, in which a large number of artists do tens and even hundreds of thousands of drawings. The animation, or 'the reality,' is created in a computer, and the work of the original artist is the work. Nor is it a comic book. You can't turn the pages. You can't read the dialogue. Neal Adams

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I changed the layout of comic books in general. When I came in, layout design wasn't really part of what you did. It was all just panels, panels, panels. So when I came in, I thought, 'Nah, let's change that,' and I designed the page. Neal Adams

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I did work more realistically: I used real anatomy, faces with expressions - not Dick Tracy with his one slip of the mouth and that's it, but actual expressions on the faces that made the characters look like they were saying what was in the balloons. Neal Adams

Believe me, when I do a story - if you read 'Batman: Odyssey,' I never do something without there being a reason. There's always a reason, and you will find out in the story. I'm looking to entertain you. Neal Adams

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As it turned out, if you look at the history, everything in superhero comic books pretty much lies between Superman and Batman: Superman being the greatest superhero there is, and Batman being the one of the few superheroes who has no superpowers and is, in fact, not a superhero. Neal Adams

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