Quotes by John Allison - Page 1

Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw.
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Fairly
Unpleasant
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As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.
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Draw
Storyboard
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I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters.
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Female Characters
Man Never Who
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My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.
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Art Business Money
Balancing
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To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all.
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Teen
Admit
Hardly
To Be Honest
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I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.
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Female Characters
Male
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I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.
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Start People New
Friendships
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Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes.
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Careers
Good Work
Grapes
Sour
Work Good Opportunity
Finds
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Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work.
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Communicators
Complicated
Work Men Women
Women Are
Work Women Men
Pronounce
Tendency
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I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.
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Changed
Feet
Horizon
Strategy
Pulled
Rug
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I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next.
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Enthusiasm
Hung
Scary
Round
Setup
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My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.
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Trust Me
Trust Art Me
Cultivated
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I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!
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Copies
Printed
Website
Internet Free People
Comics
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Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch.
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Drawing
Work Me Back
Followed
Guest
Mentioned
Strip
Submitted
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As a kid, I went from reading kids' books to reading science fiction to reading, you know, adult fiction. There was never any gap. YA was a thing when I was a teenager, but it was a library category, not a marketing category, and you never really felt like it was a huge section.
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Marketing
Science Fiction
Teenager
Category
Gap
Section
Ya
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