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.
Dave GibbonsComics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.
Dave GibbonsI generally like very visually striking films. I love a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. I would have to say 'Dr. Strangelove', which of course has got resonance in 'Watchmen'. It's a favorite movie of mine.
Dave GibbonsComics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.
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