One of the attractions for me of having ‘Watchmen’ made into the first Motion Comic was just that – it was breaking new ground. Dave Gibbons Read Quote
Madefire is igniting a new era by creating a modern, dynamic reading experience and bringing that to the millions of iPad users around the world. Dave Gibbons Read Quote
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.’ Dave Gibbons Read Quote
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. Dave Gibbons Read Quote
I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I’ve always found it’s easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you’re drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along. Dave Gibbons Read Quote
I’ve always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it. Dave Gibbons Read Quote
I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an album, which to me sounds, it’s got more much of a connotation of a kind of a music single and an album collection. Dave Gibbons Read Quote
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. Dave Gibbons Read Quote
If you’re using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through. Dave Gibbons Read Quote
One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can. Dave Gibbons Read Quote
