Jim Starlin Quotes

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Jim Starlin

Profession : Artist

Birth : October 9, 1949

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

Jim Starlin

It's nice to see my work recognized as being worth something beyond the printed page, and it was very cool seeing Thanos up on the big screen.

Jim Starlin

My only surprise when I saw Thanos up on the screen was how violet he was. I always saw his exposed hide as being more grayish violet.

Jim Starlin

I found that the artist market was expanding in comics. Marvel was going from something like eight books a month to somewhere in the 20s. As a result of this expansion, Marvel, in particular, was hiring anyone who could hold a pencil. That's how I got my first job there.

Jim Starlin

We all - if we are honest with ourselves, we all have these dark spaces within our souls that we don't always want to talk about or acknowledge.

Jim Starlin

It's hard to say, but I think Warlock is the closest thing Thanos has to a friend.

Jim Starlin

Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery.

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Most of the time, I don't like planning out too far ahead. I like to be spontaneous, make decisions, and go, 'Hey! That inspired me! I want to do more with that!'

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Whenever I come back to Marvel, it's to do a Thanos story for one reason or another.

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I never imagined people like Thanos and Warlock would be drawn into films. They're weird characters in weird stories. Luckily, the twisted kids who read those weird stories are now the twisted adults who are making movies.

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I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

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I got rid of Warlock's lightning bolt because... it was a real pain to draw.

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Back in my high school years, the Hulk was my favorite Marvel character, and I always enjoy drawing him.

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If you look back on my career with Marvel, you will see that I don't really return to the House of Ideas to do Captain Marvel, Adam Warlock, and Silver Surfer stories. I always come back to the fold to tell further adventures of everyone's favorite Mad Titan.

Jim Starlin

If you look closely, you'll see that Marvel basically has three Thanoses. There is the 1970s Thanos appearing in the movies. This is before he got the Infinity Gauntlet. Then there are the Thanos stories I'm telling. And finally, there is the Thanos that appears in the mainstream Marvel stories.

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Yes, Marvel Entertainment has treated me very well and generously. Them, I like.

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I've been influenced by so many different writers along the way - from Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, John D. McDonald, and so many others - that it would take a page or two to list them all.

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Life itself is inspiration.

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I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

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It's a real honor to have my stories up on the big silver screen, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. It's great fun flying out to L.A. for premieres and meeting all the actors and directors.

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