Bryan Lee O'Malley Quotes
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I lived in London for a long time, and that's a pretty white town. In Toronto, I just ended up in this circle of indie rock kids who happened to be white, too... Really, it was just when I started getting out there and meeting more people and seeing more fans that I went, 'Oh, actually, I'm not white.'
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I don't tend to cast roles in my head because I spend so much time with these characters and the drawings that they're complete in themselves, you know what I mean?
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'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.
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I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.
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I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.
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I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.
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I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.
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When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.
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The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.'
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'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.
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I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.
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I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.
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In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.
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There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.
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Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.
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I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.
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I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.
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I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute and drawn in a really cute, appealing, rounded, childish way, and it's like, I don't know if it makes sense - but it's just something I'm really strongly compelled to do.
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When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.
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I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.
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I don't think anyone ever sets out to make a crappy movie, but there are a lot of forces working against those people who are trying to make something decent. There are a lot of fine lines to walk and small battles to fight.
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Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.
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Culture is evolving, and I'm along for the ride.
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I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw.