Knowing that Niteowl was a character taken from Dave Gibbons childhood imagination makes reading Hollis Mason’s Niteowl memoirs so much differently now
When your interviewee says he wants to continue the chat, what you do is continue the interview. Especially if it's Dave Gibbons! :D You'll just gather material for "Interview part 2"...
Dave McKean? Bill Sienkiewicz? John J Muth? Simon Bisley? Glenn Fabry? Brian Bolland. I like Gibbons - and he's the right kind of artist for Watchmen - but I'd hesitate to say he's "better" than others who were in the same comic (McMahon, Ezquerra, Kevin O'Neill)
Hes right it was too short, I wanted to hear how he crushed his enemies! LOL. Jokes aside, we really need more people like him in the industry, such a positive guy.
Gibbons never gets enough credit for his contribution. I don't know how close the collaboration was, but a huge amount of the storytelling going on in Watchmen was visual, and it's his successful rendering and arrangement of images that made it both clear as a bell and visually pleasing - some of the cleanest artwork I've seen in comics. Another artist would have made a different book, and very likely an inferior one.
Such a class act and a complete sweetheart many people will strive to be like assholes but I'm so happy and refreshed to see such a kind sweet man in the comic book business and he gave me such hope as a young writer to one day be just like Mark Millar writing to his idols and one day working with them amazing
“They claim their labors are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be…too late.” ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
I still remember when I saw the first issue of Watchmen. Mr Gibbons' artwork was simply stunning, somehow stylized and elaborate at the same time. The character designs were so individual and expressive. It reignited my interest in comics.
I lived " just down the road" from DAVE when he lived in St Albans, met him on a few occasions- he even drew my then gf in ro-busters as a favour - totally Top Bloke!
Wow.... Showing close-ups Cam Kennedy's art instead of Dave Gibbons in a feature about Dave Gibbons. Well done SYFY. All those issues have credits on them you know?
I hated the talking over the drumming. Couldn't you get the bloke to shut up or turn the drumming up a little bit more so we could just hear the drummer without interruption?
The US reprints of 2000ad shown at around 2 mins in are hated by the UK artists as they just shrunk/squashed/distorted the original art - plus this art isn't by Dave ;)
After reading how awful Gibbons and DC comics behaved and acted towards Alan Moore, it is more than understandable that they don't have contact anymore
I find it incredibly ironic that he talks about how important it is to love Superheroes in order to do something like the Watchmen so well, and then you have Zach "I hate superheroes, and they look ridiculous in costumes" Snyder do such a bad film adaption because of his distaste for the genre.
You got a chance to interview such an iconic artist and you made the interview just 13 minutes long? Are you kidding? Isn't that too short 😢 such a waste...
