Because you’ve written about it. Because it’s getting a reaction one way or another. If you hate it and you’re reacting negative about it, that’s still a reaction. It’s not about liking something or admiring the ability behind it or anything else. I use pretentious in this context because it’s active consciousness. Non-pretentious art is natural. Nature creates the art. If you take something out of nature and put it in an environment for it to be observed and considered, then that’s pretentious, isn’t it? This was simply excellent. I listened to it over the course of a morning and was totally enthralled. The performances were outstanding including Colin Morgan as Sláine and Gerry O’Brien as Ukko, the dwarf, who is Sláine’s companion and the chronicler of his adventures. Ukko is very much comic relief with great banter between him and the druidess Nest, who ‘encourages’ Ukko to write down the saga. Nest, who was portrayed by Fiona Glascott, was my favourite character.

That doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing. Every single piece of art that anyone’s ever conscious of doing exists pretentiously, because you’re doing something to show people… I mean, how do you want to define pretentious?Duncan, Randy; Smith, Matthew J. (2013). Icons of the American Comic Book: From Captain America to Wonder Woman, Volume 1. p.332. ISBN 9780313399237. Pat Mills’ writing and editorial career started in Dundee, working for D.C. Thomson on the teenage romance magazine Romeo. Later he went freelance and started a long relationship with IPC Magazines, initially writing for girl’s titles like Tammy, Pink and Sandy. He then worked with Malcolm Shaw on devising Jinty before moving over to rejuvenate boy’s comics. He created Battle (with John Wagner), Action, Misty and 2000 AD. Other notable works include Marshal Law, ‘Third World War’ in Crisis, and Requiem Vampire Knight.

That’s kind of the argument that a lot of people are making right now, is that they’re taking all of these wonderful iconic artists, and just plug in all of that information, saying what they want to a computer, and it comes out in that style, or it’ll come out as a somewhat distorted version of your work. laughs] Well, I mean, pretentiousness is a consciousness of art as it’s being presented and regarded. Talking with Grant, we were talking about the purest form of art – so to do art and to do real art is to do something that would be so utterly unconscious, unpretentious and unconscious. Why paint anything at all? Why even bother? If you’re doing fine art and you want to paint something for yourself, why bother at all? Because when you paint you’re considering a lot of things. How are people going to react to it? Am I going to be a great artist or am I going to be a bad artist? Shall I do this or not do it? If somebody has doubts about it, you’re being pretentious because you’re not really actually doing what you really want to do. Nah, nah. But it makes me realize how much I threw away from my miserable life. I could’ve made more of an effort in a lot of ways. There’s just a lot of ways I could’ve done better. Way better. Take a different approach, I think. It's a mixed bag in many ways, both good and bad. Sometimes the sudden shift in tone are hilarious and work excellently for the story, and sometimes they are just that, abrupt jokes that make you cringe. At times you can almost feel the grandeur of the legend being told and at times you've no idea what is happening and why, where it's all leading to and what happened before.Eventually, even though he had no experience in comics strip drawing at the time, he was hired by the magazine 2000 AD after they saw his interpretations of their magazine characters. According to the Comic Book Database, "while still a student, Bisley did a painting of a robot holding a baby that he sent to the offices of 2000 AD. The image was seen by Pat Mills and inspired him to relaunch the ABC Warriors strip, with Bisley as artist, in 1987". [2] He started with work on ABC Warriors in 1987, later moving to Sláine and Judge Dredd. [3] Danu offers Sláine the opportunity to become her consort, the Horned God, by defeating the Lord Weird Slough Fegg, who had refused to die when his seven-year reign as Horned God ended and has unnaturally extended his life. If Sláine achieves this it would restore the worship of the Goddess and also improve the position of women in their society. I think they’re combined! I mean look at Bill Sienkiewicz – or even some of my stuff. You can see the use of abstract in it. Comic book artists, a lot of them, are real and true artists. The people who draw that line with fine art – they’re the ones that are pretentious. They’re defining themselves and defining me and people like me, and defining themselves against me and separate from me and us and them. You can’t get more pretentious than that. It’s a class system that’s entirely wrong because, again, look at Sienkiewicz’s stuff – you can take his frames and blow them up and it’s a whole other process, I think, because you’re not doing it solely to tell a story for a corporate company. On the other end of the spectrum for you… I found an interview from around – oh jeez – probably from ’93 or ’94 in Tripwire Magazine that was between you and Grant [Morrison] , talking about art – specifically fine art. And one of the first things that you say in this interview is that art is pretentious.

Today, amidst my usual Panopticon Feed, I saw that it was the birthday of artist extraodinaire, Simon ‘Biz’ Bisley. It having been over a year since my last ‘Painting Metal’ blog entry, the time seemed ripe to post another. Bisley has been creating covers for metal albums for nearly thirty-five years, on top of playing in various metal bands himself. The man is one of us, sword-brothers.Nominated for "Best Graphic Album: New/First US Publication" Eisner Award, for Judgement on Gotham (with Alan Grant and John Wagner) Priča na početku ovog prvog dela je dosta konfuzna, pa čak i zamorna. Milion nekih bogova, kraljeva, plemena... ne može čovek da pohvata sve odjednom. Imala sam osećaj da mi treba pomoćni papir da pribeležim gde je ko i šta je ko. Međutim, ispostavilo se da polako sve dođe na svoje kako radnja odmiče. Problem je verovatno i što nisam čitala ništa od priča koje ovoj prethode. Yeah. It’s a good process. Magnificent. But when it comes down to the real deal it can be such a shame. Well, I don’t know. It depends where the land lies legally. I mean, if they can make a living out of it, that’s kind of wrong. They’ve taken 35 years of my hard work to come up with something and they just press a button and just create these images. I think there’s something illegal there, without a doubt, because they’re using my process in a roundabout way. Even without me. Slaine is a book of contradictions: it's beautifully crafted, filled with precise artwork of horrors and carnage, and then there are rushed pictures with the character's faces contorted in amusement. It tells an epic tale of conquest and gods and goddesses and there's a horny dwarf that wants to bang the women. It's both a history and a tale already told in destiny, and there are meta-level joke about making the story.