American - Artist | June 15, 1941 -
My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.
Neal Adams
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I believe in advancing the story with the cover so that the audience gets taken in immediately with that cover.
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One of the reasons that DC, Marvel, and other comic book companies have always asked me to do covers and variant covers is because they know that when they tell me 'icon,' I jump over their words, and I give them an iconic cover - but while I'm doing it, there is going to be an idea there.
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The great opportunity with Deadman was that you had a character that nobody had really done anything with - Arnold Drake and Carmine Infantino created the character, which is terrific, but Carmine only did one issue with him - and it gave me a chance to do things that I hadn't seen done in comics all of my life.
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I have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them.
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I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home.
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The 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali' book was printed in every free country in the world, OK? Now, it's so good in its way that we can go in and make fun of it and feel good about it.
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You could say everybody's a fan of Jack Kirby. I would say I'm a fan of Jack Kirby. I'm a fan of Jack Kirby the man.
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I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people.
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To me, it's the outstanding people, people like Jack Kirby that really make a difference, that are very, very important.
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I think that Curt Swan, when he did Superman for the longest time, became the definitive Superman artist, and everybody got it. That made him very, very special in the annals of comic books.
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Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him.
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