Bill Sienkiewicz

How I miss* Bill Sienkiewicz, and how sad I am that Big Numbers was never finished. Both from the writer (Alan Moore) and the artist, it was a work so original that it goes beyond "seminal" because I don't think anybody could ever have emulated it.

Like most powerful artists, it seems that both Moore and Sienkiewicz have strong egos, and like often happens, they came in conflict somehow, and the series ended after two issues out of twelve planned.


* He's not dead, but for many years it seems he has produced very little, and what I've seen looks like he's coasting on skills learned earlier.
Here's an audio interview.