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Quotes By author - Starting with C - Chester Brown
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There are 44 quotes for the author Chester Brown
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Louis Riel has a vision.
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The last couple of years I've had an interest in history and politics. I was reading various historical books and I read Maggie Siggin's Louis Riel biography and it seemed like a good, dramatic story that would translate well into comic-strip form.
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You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.
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I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.
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Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things.
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The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.
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Harold Gray was a big visual influence on the book, including blank eyeballs, de-emphasized emotional reactions the overall size of the figures.
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So I went to art school in the interim. I went for a year, and then quit and went back down to New York and was rejected again, although again encouragingly so. But that was around the time I was losing interest in superhero comics anyway. I started self-publishing mini-comix in 1983.
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With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.
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With the book, because it is more of a prestige item, you can re-format so that putting as much on the page as possible isn't the primary concern, and things like pacing are.
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