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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.
- Comic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works, and the term 'graphic novel' has sort of become the codified term now.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps difficult to remember what led up to whatever point you're at. I worried a little bit about people being able to keep the shape of the story in their heads while they were reading it, and not wonder how they got wherever they were.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020