Zitat des Tages von Bryan Lee O'Malley:
Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known.
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.'
I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.
I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.
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.
There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.
Tumblr culture and the whole reappropriation-without-context thing are a double-edged sword in that they both raise awareness of my work and also kind of devalue it at the same time.
I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.
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.
I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.
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.
When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.
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.
I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.
After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
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.
I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as long as it's true to the spirit.
I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.
I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.
I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw.
Seeing people cosplaying my characters is always a blast.