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Bill Sienkiewicz [1958-0] American

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Boleslav William Felix Robert "Bill" Sienkiewicz is an Eisner Award-winning American artist and writer best known for his comic book work, primarily for Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and Elektra: Assassin.

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So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.		101
So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.	Amazing	102
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.		103
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.		104
And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.		105
To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.		106
So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.		107
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.		108
It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.		109
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.		110
I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.		111
Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects.		112
Cartooning is an honorable thing.		113
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.		114
You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.		115
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.		116
There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.		117
That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.		118
So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different.		119
People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.		120
One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.		121
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.		122
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.		123
Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.		124
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.		125
If somebody can inspire me, it feels really special.		126
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.		201
I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.		202
I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.		203
For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.		204
Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.		205
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.		206
But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.		207
But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.		208
But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.		209
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.		210

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