Todd McFarlane
Todd McFarlane
Todd McFarlaneis a Canadian artist, writer, designer and entrepreneur, best known for his work in comic books, such as the fantasy series Spawn...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth16 March 1961
CityCalgary, Canada
CountryCanada
pain memories caring
Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always her face. Who is she? Then things begin to crystallize. You remember your funeral. Begging and pleading for someone to release you from the darkness. You're not dead. You can't be. Then you feel her presence. Warm, caring, soothing. But somewhere deep inside she feels empty now. She has no reason. No meaning. No soul. But your soul lives. While her's is dying.
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We knew we wanted to make the soldiers look realistic,
attack guy heart push toy
...my toy guy is going to have a heart attack if we push that one through...
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My wife is pretty and she actually puts on makeup, curls her hair and puts on nice clothes. I'm sure if she were a model, she'd still do that.
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I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.
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That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.
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I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal.
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It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts.
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A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that.
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You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better.
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We aren't selling these products to just retailers, we're selling them to our fans as well, ... And I think they should have a chance to see this cool stuff too.
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Once the character was established, I felt that I had to build a strong foundation for the Spawn brand name, ... To build a strong foundation you need four pillars. In the comic book industry, those pillars are television, video games, movies and toys or ancillary products. If you have a good foundation and pillars, you'd be surprised what you can build. You could even build skyscrapers
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This is the new generation's cult classic film; fans will be repeating the lines over and over just like my generation did with three or four movies when I was 13.
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The plans this year are for me to finish the script that I'm working on and to finance and direct the live action Spawn movie myself.