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From 'The Sandman' and 'Black Orchid' to 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?,' Neil Gaiman has provided some of the most memorable stories of the comic book industry.
Jim Lee
Book
Black
Whatever
Neil
Memorable
Some
Most
Industry
Comic
Comic Book
Provided
Stories
Happened
'Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future.
Jim Lee
Future
History
Cornerstone
Both
Comics
Publishing
Watchmen
Wonder Woman isn't even American; she's an Amazon princess.
Jim Lee
Woman
Princess
She
Amazon
Wonder
Wonder Woman
American
Even
Superheroes are modern mythological characters, so you're going to make them look impossible. Even my Krypto The Superdog is the idealisation of the canine form.
Jim Lee
You
Impossible
Characters
Superheroes
Mythological
Look
Make
Modern
Going
Form
Them
Even
I like having pairs of characters to play off each other. I love drawing Batman, but he's more fun with Robin. Batman charges ahead, Robin jumps off the walls. It's fun showing that contrast.
Jim Lee
Love
Walls
Other
Batman
Drawing
Characters
Charges
Having
More
He
Like
Robin
Off
Jumps
Contrast
Fun
Showing
Each
Pairs
Play
As a kid, I loved the whimsical Superman and Batman stuff, and as a teenager, Marvel was more angsty, and that appealed to me. Marvel dealt with more stuff I could relate to as a teenager.
Jim Lee
Me
Superman
Relate
Teenager
Batman
Kid
More
Marvel
Could
Stuff
Dealt
Loved
Whimsical
Appealed
'The Dark Knight,' 'The Rocketeer' and definitely the first 'Superman' movie by Richard Donner are the best. I tend to be softer in my judgment about what's a bad movie - I don't think anyone intends to make a bad movie, and sometimes it just doesn't click for some reason.
Jim Lee
Best
Dark
Sometimes
Superman
First
Judgment
Think
Softer
Definitely
Bad
Some
About
Bad Movie
Tend
Knight
Make
Click
Just
Movie
Anyone
Richard
Reason
The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.
Jim Lee
Game
Better
Space
Different Kinds
Changing
Market
Tell
Evolving
Ability
Kinds
Huge
Quickly
Different
Stories
Video
Video Game
Gaming
Most video games, you build up toward the big, bad boss. And it's just a bigger, more powerful version of what you've been fighting all along in the game.
Jim Lee
Video Games
You
Game
Big
Build
Fighting
Bad
Boss
More
Toward
Powerful
Along
Most
Been
Version
Up
Just
Bigger
Video
Games
If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of.
Jim Lee
Best
Great
You
People
Heroes
Will
Opposing
Universe
Find
Super
Superheroes
Look
Because
Always
Off
Very
Any
Them
Villains
Play
I don't think you can measure your love or your passion for whatever you're working on.
Jim Lee
Love
You
Passion
Whatever
Think
Working
Your
Measure
I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.
Jim Lee
Me
Library
Digital
Carry
Stuff
Go
Reference
Want
Format
Wherever
Converted
Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's weird: the more advanced they get, the faker it looks.
Jim Lee
Today
You
Crisp
See
More
Clean
Advanced
Weird
Looks
Fake
Lot
Get
Just
Movies
Even
I think the very simplest way to show Superman's power is to have him punch someone that's powerful.
Jim Lee
Superman
Power
Think
Punch
Way
Someone
Simplest
Powerful
Him
Very
Show
The way you challenge Superman is by having things happen very, very quickly in different places and then asking, 'Who does he save first? What powers must he use to save each person or stop each disaster?' That's one of the ways you make him interesting beyond the thematic and moral issues that make Superman.
Jim Lee
You
Challenge
Superman
First
Way
Ways
Moral
Must
Moral Issues
Having
He
Disaster
Beyond
Powers
Make
Him
Does
Issues
Very
Quickly
Person
Stop
Different
Happen
Places
Interesting
Thematic
Then
Asking
Use
Different Places
Who
Each
Things
Things Happen
Save
As lifelong fans of comic books, Dan Didio and myself, we definitely have our own takes on what make for successful comics and the kind of comics that we want to publish.
Jim Lee
Myself
Fans
Own
Publish
Dan
Our
Books
Definitely
Kind
Lifelong
Takes
Make
Comic
Comic Books
Comics
Want
Successful
There's an obvious marketing component to doing something digitally where you're reaching out to new readers that you can't do in the existing print marketplace, or that it's difficult to do in the existing print marketplace.
Jim Lee
You
Difficult
Marketing
Marketplace
Out
Component
Something
New
Reaching
Obvious
Print
Readers
Doing
Existing
Where
It's interesting - a lot of what you accomplish in your lifetime either as an individual or as a company is determined by other people. I mean, you can do interview after interview and defend a point of view, but more often than not, the collective kind of opinion will be the one viewed historically and taken as gospel.
Jim Lee
You
People
Will
Collective
Other
Interview
Kind
Determined
More
Point
Individual
Point Of View
Lifetime
Taken
Gospel
Opinion
Accomplish
Lot
Historically
Than
Often
After
Either
Interesting
Mean
View
Viewed
Your
Company
Defend
I tend not to look at my work after I've done it. In fact, the only time I typically get to review it is when the fans bring up comics at shows, and I kind of flip through it and be like, 'Oh, I remember doing this!'
Jim Lee
Work
Time
Remember
Fans
Kind
Only
Fact
Tend
Only Time
Through
Like
Look
Comics
Doing
Review
Up
Get
Done
Oh
In Fact
After
Flip
Shows
Bring
The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It didn't really hit me how important it was until I drew a scene early-on in the book that featured Superman crossing paths with a giant, intergalactic space armada.
Jim Lee
Time
Me
Book
Space
Tomorrow
Superman
First
Important
Giant
Drew
Crossing
Scene
Featured
Until
First Time
How
Hit
Paths
Story
Really
Brian
So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.
Jim Lee
Focused
Characters
Stay
Pretty
Talking
Another
Comics
Camera
Dictated
Close
Going
Where
Spaces
Much
Any time you change something classic or iconic, you're going to have some part of the fan base up in arms.
Jim Lee
Time
You
Change
Classic
Some
Something
Part
Arms
Up
Any
Going
Fan
Fan Base
Iconic
Base
Once I started down the path of co-founding Image Comics, and even co-publisher, it just seems a lot more like a career path that isn't that atypical for someone with a college degree. Whereas, someone who draws comic books as a freelancer and lives from job to job is a more unusual story.
Jim Lee
Path
Job
Degree
College
Down
Books
Once
Draws
College Degree
Someone
Seems
More
Like
Unusual
Comic
Comic Books
Comics
Lot
Just
Whereas
Story
Who
Even
Lives
Image
Started
Career
Career Path
I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.
Jim Lee
Responsibility
Think
Books
Out
Come
Make
Sure
Around
Been
Timely
Decades
Manner
Company
Staple
Publisher
There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets is not a 1-to-1 translation. It's a crossing of ideas that generates the stories that you see in print.
Jim Lee
You
Translation
Interpretation
See
Crossing
Writer
Ideas
Print
Intended
Artist
Intent
In Print
Stories
I played a little bit of 'City of Heroes' - they have a really great character generation system. I was pretty impressed with that. I played 'World of Warcraft' with my kids. That's a lot of fun.
Jim Lee
Great
Character
Generation
World
Heroes
Bit
Kids
System
City
Pretty
Lot
Impressed
Warcraft
Little
Little Bit
Really
Fun
Played
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