MAKING MAGIC: JH WILLIAMS ON PROMETHEA
posted November 20, 2002 03:40 PM
written by Matt Brady

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NRAMA: Speaking to your approach with the art, and your background – the looks and styles that you’re pulling off on both the interiors and covers of Promethea…this isn’t a case where you were growing up thinking you wanted to be the next John Byrne or George Perez, was it?

JHW: Not really – my influences are pretty far spread out. When I first got into comics, as a fan, I was really into Byrne’s X-Men and Michael Golden. As a kid, I would totally emulate drawing like them on my scratch pads. But even when I was a kid, I wasn’t drawn to any one particular art style in comics. I didn’t appreciate Byrne more than Golden – it was all really fascinating to me.

So as I grew older, any new forms of art or anything that I ad not seen before would just compel me. So working on the Kaballah Quest was a rare opportunity in comics where you can really flex your muscles and do an entire issue in a woodblock or Van Gogh style. It’s really cool that I’m able to bring in some outside influences that aren’t necessarily related to comics. As far as my current influences, they’re all over the place – film, European comics, and lots of stuff from American creators. I’m very much an enthusiast and advocate of exploring new art styles. I’ll read anything, from Moebius to Joe Matt.

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