Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons
David Chester "Dave" Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometimes letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything". He was an artist for the UK anthology 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComic Book Artist
Date of Birth14 April 1949
book thinking italian
I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.
moving vision fringe
In God’s economy, vision should move from the fringes to the middle.
steps surprise reader
I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.
two numbers fiction
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.'
thinking artist vision
If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.
art real school
I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.
book thinking illustration
People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of Watchmen as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.
people world helping
Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.
jobs character drawing
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.
hands sitting want
If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.
anyone bottle consider depths might obvious perfume plot reads reveal rotation stuff themselves
In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about 'Watching the Watchmen' - like the notes where I plot the rotation of a perfume bottle through the air - might not be particularly obvious to anyone who reads it.
beside comic equally felt medium movies name stage stands strip telling
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.
clearly comics easier found properly rather
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.
breaking comic motion
One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.