For Kitty Gilbert in 'Topsy-Turvy,' I had to get to the point where I could improvise in the style of 1880, which is difficult. The research for that was huge.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.
The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's literature and detective fiction, of modern adventure, mystery and romance.
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
I started in improv and went into different kinds of things.
It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.
I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s.
I started my career so early and developed in print for better or for worse, so I think there's a sense some of my earliest readers are kind of copilots on this voyage with me.
One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.