Bryan Lee O'Malley
Bryan Lee O'Malley
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth21 February 1979
CountryCanada
pulls releases
Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.
period
After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
life
I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.
information
When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.
compelled drawn serious stories strongly
I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute and drawn in a really cute, appealing, rounded, childish way, and it's like, I don't know if it makes sense - but it's just something I'm really strongly compelled to do.
fairy grounded plenty restaurant takes tale town version
'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.
grew moved
I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.
against anyone battles crappy fine forces lines people sets trying
I don't think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight.
feels kinda object
I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.
certainly games played
I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.
came food guess liked obsessed somewhere stories
I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.
almost based feeling learned life martial playing somehow
I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.
circle ended fans happened indie kids lived meeting people rock time white
I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.'
twenties whether
I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.