Bill Sienkiewicz
Bill Sienkiewicz
Boleslav William Felix Robert "Bill" Sienkiewicz is an Eisner Award-winning American artist and writer best known for his comic book work, primarily for Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and Elektra: Assassin. Sienkiewicz often utilizes oil painting, collage, mimeograph, and other forms generally uncommon in comic books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth3 May 1958
CountryUnited States of America
guy paint stills
I still love a lot of the guys who just paint
black-and-white paint wanted
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
want littles stuff
So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different
want what-you-want avenues
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say
world states felt
For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States
blood
Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects
media driven produce
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something
looks film gray
Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident
artist technique irrelevant
To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
art school illustrators
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
mean style stories
Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story