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Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:39:17 CST
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From www.comicbookresources.com
MCFARLANE AND KHOURY ON 15 YEARS OF IMAGE COMICS
By George Khoury
Posted: June 13, 2007
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KHOURY: When they gave you your own title, the self-titled Spider-Man, was it because you wanted to tell your own stories? Were you starting to get frustrated already at Marvel?
McFARLANE: Not really. Well, I was always frustrated, but I wanted to draw... remember I said earlier that I'd come up with a style that would entertain me? Again, this is maybe all part of my ego: that the easiest way to entertain you, is to actually draw the stuff you like. ... It takes four days to draw that damn picture. Three minutes to think it up, four days to draw the double-page spread. It's just painful. God bless — I mean, some guys are just better at it, George Pérez, God bless him, but I didn't have it in me. I didn't have it in me. And so even after I'd left Infinity Inc. with Roy Thomas, I'd just go, "I will never ever do a team book again." It's probably why I didn't ever want to do X-Men. I had been burnt out on a team book which is a bunch of talking heads, and each guy maybe gets nine panels, and you don't ever get to fall in love with any of the characters.
