For Comic Book Artist Brian Apthorp, some dreams do come true. . For Art's Sake Episode "Brian Apthorp, comic book artist" Brian: Comic books, for me as a child, as a boy, of course they were almost entirely--well they were entirely a mainstream entertainment, aimed at kids. And for a boy or girl that age, that kind of spectacular fantasy is a natural. It wasn't just the bright colors and the pure fantasies of being strong and powerful and making things happen in the world, but rather a context of drama and exciting things--bigger than my life, but which carried within it, in the very bones of that ink and paper, a subconscious potency of the true emotions of the people who made them. And those people who I was attracted to were those who had the most dramatic sense; an overt sense of drama, and an overt sense of a grandeur--a grandeur to life. And that really is the essence of what I seek in art, is a resonance of that wonder. I first worked for Neal Adams' Continuity Comics,...