Eleanor Rigg’s Reviews > Comics Sketchbooks: The Unseen World of Today's Most Creative Talents > Status Update

pg 292- Jim Steranko: I treat all [creative assignments] as puzzles to be solved using three tools: imagination, intelligence and integrity."

pg 288- Mark Allen Stamaty: "if you want to be a writer, write [...] it's also an effort to evolve my work, to explore my unconscious, which is, I believe, an essential source of originality and creativity, an effort to discover something new from within [...] it allows [ideas] to come out and [...] resonate with others. [...] if I could explain it, I wouldn't have painted it."

pg245- Bill Plympton: "I believe that once an artist begins to rely on an old style and keeps repeating it, his career is done. The excitement for me is the search for a more bizarre and interesting vision."

"pg 225- Joanna Neborsky: "Marshall Arisman says that when you begin to make something, you start out deep in ego (thinking, 'What Will They Think?', or the always problematic 'Look, I'm a Genius' until you discover yourself in the rarer state of unselfconscious creation. Then it's just gravy. [...] Sketching is a kind of purposeful wandering."

pg 216- Saxton Moore: "The first image has the most soul in it."

pg 212- Rutu Modan- "Sketchbooks are for everything I do [...] I do not have a separate planner. In the sketchbook I sketch, I write meetings, phone numbers, grocery lists, ideas for stories and quotes from strangers I eavesdropped on the bus.

Also David Mazzuchelli's point that one can get discover new interests simply by immersing oneself in different environments, nature, situations etc (pg 210).

pg 177- Étienne Lécroart: "it is the text that I use for my research. I even describe the picture in words, as I write faster than I draw. If I can do without drawing, I pass [...] These sketches are not done to be shown."

pg 160- Peter Kuper: "When I travel [sketchbooks] serve as a document of the trip and a way to absorb the flavor of the different places I've visited." [...] His sketches have gotten him food, gotten him out of some close scrapes, gotten him through closed doors, and entertained and interpreted for him when he couldn't speak a word of the language.'

pg 150- Nora Krug: "sketching is like a dialogue between my brain and my hand."