Creativity Quote by Bill Sienkiewicz

There is a quietly revealing pragmatism in Sienkiewicz singling out Elektra: not the character’s mythology, not “inspiration,” but the workload. “Especially” frames Elektra as the pressure point, the project where his authorship is most visible and most exposed. And he’s not talking about interior pages; he’s talking about covers, the comics equivalent of album art and movie posters, the part that has to sell the mood in a single image while also shouldering marketing expectations.

The phrase “a lot of the covers” does double duty. It’s a flex, but an anxious one: covers are prestige, yet they’re also repetition, deadlines, brand management. Sienkiewicz built his reputation by making mainstream comics look unstable in the best way - painterly, expressionist, confrontational. Saying he’s “doing” the covers positions him less as a lone genius and more as a working artist navigating an industrial pipeline. That’s the subtext: creativity as labor, signature style as deliverable.

“New version of Elektra” matters, too. Elektra is a character with a fixed visual identity in fans’ heads (noir eroticism, razor-edged elegance, tragic violence). A “new version” implies reboot logic, corporate refresh, the need to update without breaking the icon. Sienkiewicz is signaling intent: he’s participating in that negotiation, using the cover space to bridge legacy and reinvention, to assert that this Elektra can change yet still feel like Elektra.