3,100 Bengal Lights
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Great explanation.
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Thanks.
I don't know if it's great but it's my way. When you're good enough as
a comic artist, it's your task to know how to make the reader read the
page quickly or slowly just by the way you put your panels together. That’s
very important. But I truly believe that 90% of the comic artists around
the world neglect this since they’re too caught up in the details.
It seems that most youngsters nowadays just care about becoming super
pencillers, assuming good novels would result naturally. Good “directors”
have become rare, so to speak. Good “dialogists” too. Dialogues
become mainly easy reading with the same old jokes, insults, punch lines,
thoughts and speeches. I think a good writer finds a way through dialogue
to craft each character well without using cookie cutters and clichés.
I can’t explain this well but I hope you get the point. Anyway,
if I were to write something, as writer, it would be a really simple theme,
a simple scenario too, but the emphasis on characters and dialogue would
be huge. Same thing for the storytelling, of course.
I just have to look at the BDs [Bandes Dessinées -- "comic strips"] I bought when I was a kid, 20 years ago, to see how poor and distasteful the global commercial production is today. There’s still some excellent stuff, but there are just so many poor releases everywhere...
Amen. But Bengal, has anyone ever told you to get off that high horse?
Hehe, yeah. Some people do think I’m an elitist boy.
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It's
surprising to hear you say all this because you usually seem so appreciative
of other artists’ works, so amiable. You even produce fan art --
Catwoman, Marvel, Capcom, Naruto...
Yes, but well, when it comes to manga, most of the time it's real fan art. I mean, I enjoy Naruto, I enjoy Capcom's fighters, etc. As for comics, it's more like I dream of things with these wonderful characters. But the few adventures I read in comics are repetitive, everlasting, always telling the same things... etc.
Maybe it's the same for manga, but I like manga and... don't appreciate
a lot of comics
(except for those by super gods like Tim Sale & Jeff Loeb, Brian Bendis,
and a few others). The entire mainstream comics industry has not gone
in a direction that interests me and maybe that's why sometimes (especially
with my Catwoman project) I'd like to show another way, another story
with these characters. It’s only a dream.