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It's a dirty little secret that I'm pretty self-conscious about coloring my own work. I just see so many people who love color more than me that I get freaked out every time I hit Photoshop. Black and white? I know exactly what to do, but color offers a million solutions to problems I don't even know exist. Doug TenNapel

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If you read 'Lord of the Rings' and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you're missing the whole point of the story. If children don't have to be concerned about strangers because there's no such thing as a Big Bad Wolf dressed like Granny, you're missing the point. Doug TenNapel

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I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life. Doug TenNapel

I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next. Doug TenNapel

The point of view is the biggest problem with games, because what we play must be clearly presented in the best way for me to have an immersive game experience. Doug TenNapel

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When I play a game, I want to play, not necessarily laugh. If you try to make me laugh at the expense of interactivity, then you've just created another funny game that isn't very fun. The videogame medium itself is a terrible place for complicated humor, drama, and character development. Doug TenNapel

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When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why a game's first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices. The humor has to be a gentleman. I mean, it needs to be squeezed in around the game. Doug TenNapel

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Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud. Dustin Yellin

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Sometimes I have to be pulled down to reality. I want everything to happen all at once. Dustin Yellin

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I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist. Dustin Yellin

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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way. Ed Emberley

Me Everyone Books Way Some Like Likes Who

Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy. Eddie Campbell

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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy. Eddie Campbell

Me Political Gone Top Total Stuff Doing Off Fantasy

It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up. Eddie Campbell

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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin. Eddie Campbell

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin. Eddie Campbell

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They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me. Eddie Campbell

Me Write Over Up Ended Asked

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window. Eddie Campbell

Me Three Changed Minds Out Window About Threw Direction Sack Wrote Got Issues Five Eight Paid Actually

There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here. Eddie Campbell

Horror Couple Discussion Things Here

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