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" I'm not someone who complains in any way about how things move forward, unless somebody actually does a really crappy job. "
Neal Adams
Things
Someone
Move
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" The great opportunity with Deadman was that you had a character that nobody had really done anything with - Arnold Drake and Carmine Infantino created the character, which is terrific, but Carmine only did one issue with him - and it gave me a chance to do things that I hadn't seen done in comics all of my life. "
Neal Adams
Opportunity
Character
Life
" I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true. "
Neal Adams
Attention
Think
You
" Not too many people draw black people as well as I do. "
Neal Adams
Draw
Black
Well
" People lie when they get upset. "
Neal Adams
Upset
People
Lie
" People are different from one another. That's what makes the world good. That's what makes the world great. "
Neal Adams
World
Good
Different
" I think that Curt Swan, when he did Superman for the longest time, became the definitive Superman artist, and everybody got it. That made him very, very special in the annals of comic books. "
Neal Adams
Special
Artist
Time
" It used to be that comic strips were the big thing, and comic books were toilet paper. "
Neal Adams
Used
Toilet Paper
Paper
" When I was asked by Pacific Comics for an original creator-owned series, my first choice of those several characters was Ms. Mystic. Since I always try to advance the work of other younger creators, I asked the young Mike Nasser if he'd like to join me in this project. He said yes. Mike created nothing! "
Neal Adams
Nothing
Said
Me
" I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home. "
Neal Adams
Island
Know
Brooklyn
" The 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali' book was printed in every free country in the world, OK? Now, it's so good in its way that we can go in and make fun of it and feel good about it. "
Neal Adams
Feel Good
Book
World
" I changed the layout of comic books in general. When I came in, layout design wasn't really part of what you did. It was all just panels, panels, panels. So when I came in, I thought, 'Nah, let's change that,' and I designed the page. "
Neal Adams
You
Change
Design
" I created the first black superhero who was not a gangbanger or an African chief but was rather a college graduate and a professional, which I think is a big accomplishment. "
Neal Adams
College
Accomplishment
Black
" I'm a fan of Superman as created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Remember that Jerry and Joe created a character that was the biggest superhero of all. "
Neal Adams
Superman
Remember
Character
" 'The Dark Knight Rises,' it turns out, is a classic Batman epic. "
Neal Adams
Dark
Epic
Batman
" Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous. "
Neal Adams
Being
Nothing
Kind
" Back in the olden days when we were rubbing sticks together, everybody wanted to have a comic strip, to live in Westport Connecticut, to have a Jaguar and to have a wife and two and a half kids and to have a girl in town in their studio in Manhattan that they'd romance, and then they'd have people ghost their strip. It was like this big dream. "
Neal Adams
Girl
Live
People
" One of the reasons that DC, Marvel, and other comic book companies have always asked me to do covers and variant covers is because they know that when they tell me 'icon,' I jump over their words, and I give them an iconic cover - but while I'm doing it, there is going to be an idea there. "
Neal Adams
Know
Words
Me
" My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels. "
Neal Adams
Meant To Be
View
Stories
" I used to work on a carousel on a boardwalk in Coney Island. "
Neal Adams
Work
Used
Carousel
" For me, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster's character was Superman. "
Neal Adams
Joe
Jerry
Character
" One of the things people think about me is that I don't do deadlines. But if you look at all the books I've ever done, they're all sequential every month. There might have been glitches along the way. But almost all of my books appeared sequentially. "
Neal Adams
Look
Done
People
" I think that we want to believe in Superman. "
Neal Adams
I Think
Superman
Think
" Motion comics are a medium all their own. It is certainly not animation, in which a large number of artists do tens and even hundreds of thousands of drawings. The animation, or 'the reality,' is created in a computer, and the work of the original artist is the work. Nor is it a comic book. You can't turn the pages. You can't read the dialogue. "
Neal Adams
You
Artist
Reality
" I live in New York and California, and I get to travel. "
Neal Adams
California
Live
New
" The thing about advertising is that you make more money. You can put kids through college so they don't come out with loans. My kids don't, and my grandkids don't, and advertising paid for that. "
Neal Adams
You
More
Money
" I did the X-Men, and I plotted the stories, and Roy Thomas dialogued them. And that first set of comic books that I did are the plot that the first X-Men movie was taken from, where Magneto invents a machine that turns regular humans into mutants. That's my idea. "
Neal Adams
Stories
Plot
Machine
" Nobody is looking for work who doesn't need work. That's why we look for work. "
Neal Adams
Why
Look
Work
" I love Captain Marvel. I'd love to see a Captain Marvel movie. "
Neal Adams
Marvel
Captain
See
" I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people. "
Neal Adams
Who
Good
People
" It may be that a majority of superheroes are white males. But that's because they used to all be white males, except for Wonder Woman and Black Canary and maybe one or two others. Now there are Spanish, Puerto Rican comic book superheroes, black superheroes, and women superheroes. "
Neal Adams
Women
Woman
White