Steve Martin has decided to tell his story in a new way: collaborating on his illustrated memoir with New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss.
, which means there's cartoons, there's anecdotes and there's cartoons. But this phrase always stuck in my mind,"Number one is walking". It's used on a movie set when the call sheet comes in, the sort of lead actor, the ones with the most lines, is called number one. And then there's number two. And number three, the people that really buy lines.
And when the assistant director is on his walkie talkie, they don't want to say,"Steve Martin is walking to the set" because it can create a hubbub or something. So they changed it to,"Number one is walking, number two is walking." And it was always kind of embarrassing, you know.
And I love the kind of incongruity of Steve in the woods. So he's talking to them. It's kind of a vignette of the image. From there, it's called"breakdown" in comics. So I'll break these panels down. I'll break down Steve's words, which come to me in an email.
He will write them out and I'll start breaking it down into the way a storyboard artist might do a film. Maybe like the third panel is a pull back shot and you just see the word balloon coming from the mountain top there. And it's fun for me because I get to draw these things and it's always fun to draw Steve, his face. I can draw Steve in my sleep at this point.I guess there's an assumption that at a certain point you're just supremely confident.
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