Canadian - Cartoonist | February 21, 1979 -
When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
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'Seconds' is all about spaces, and I guess spaces are kind of like people in that they can be haunting and alluring before we even really get to know them, and after prolonged exposure, they can become mundane or oppressive.
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Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
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Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time.
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I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.
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After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
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I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.
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Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.
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I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.
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The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known.
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I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.
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Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.
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