There is a sequence in my 'Detective Comics' run where you can't find consecutive issues by the same artist. That's intentional. That was done on purpose.
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As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.
Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.
Art is an investigation.
The first big long-form work I did in comics was 'Scalped' for Vertigo, which ran for 60 issues.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
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