Dave Gibbons Quotes

I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they’re existing characters, I’ll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you’re drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.

I think with something like Watchmen you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper novel and it also is the complete story.

I don’t think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don’t know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn’t. Some of them went and dropped out.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

In God’s economy, vision should move from the fringes to the middle.

The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC’s reasons for this initiative and the wish of the artists and writers involved to pay tribute to our work. May these new additions have the success they desire.

There’s a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved ‘Terminator 2.’

If you’re using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

I’m known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of Watchmen as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.

I really like it when you can step outside of what’s come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.