Daniel Robert Epstein: Charles Vess

His illustrations in Stardust are beautiful.

I remember seeing his stuff in the 70s, then he disappeared for a while, then seemed to return with the Sandman stuff. I've always had kind of a love/hate with his work. I love his pen and ink work, his use of line... but sometimes I find his stuff too static. His style hasn't really evolved, I guess.

I do love reading the comic book interviews, though, so keep 'em coming!

PS - Bill Willingham gave me my first, best, constructive criticism at a Seattle Comic Convention, back when I wanted to draw comics (I think he might have just started "Elementals"... might have even been earlier). Aside from being a (rumored) notorious deadline slacker, he seems like a great guy the one time I talked to him

very cool interview. i met him when he was in italy promoting the stardust books, he was very kind to chat to, and he even drew a fairy for me! here is a pic of it, hanging on my wall... and funny that he shoudl mention jeff smith in the interview too, since right beneath tha fairy sketch, there's a bone sketch by smith too!

oh... used to love attending comicons here in italy, where there were less ocean-sized fans than in san diego, and in general the atmosphere was so mellow!



ciao!

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Neil just posted about this interview on his blog.

"There's a lovely interview with Charles Vess over at Suicide Girls: http://suicidegirls.com/words/Charles+Vess/ (and having gone over there to read that, I wound up reading the Woody Allen interview and the Darren Aronofsky). Sucide Girls really has the best assemblage of cool interviews with people that's out there."

Which is preeeeeeeeecisely why I pay for the membership fee here. It's really cute to see these guys referencing each other across the net.

Charles Vess is one of my illustration heroes He really is a master of his craft, and it's nice that he can acknowledge his limitations and how his work can be best used.