There are some comments from people who maybe take things a little too seriously.
Why does Batman have a 'stache?
Speaking of Miller: Goody, do you happen to know of any video interviews with him before Sim City?
He appeared in a featurette about the 1989 Batman movie back in the day, but that’s all I can think of off the top of my head. I’m sure there’s stuff floating around.
Batman has a mustache because it strikes terror into the hearts of Gotham’s clean-shaven criminal elite.
On the subject of old Frank Miller interviews, I completely forgot about the documentary Comic Book Confidential, which rounds up a number of important creators and has them discuss their work. Many of them narrate passages from their stories.
This documentary is notable to me because it was the first time I got a good look at the work and creators of the underground “comix” movement of the 1960s. But it also included an appearance by long-haired, lanky Frank Miller.
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Now, onto the thing for which I bumped this thread in the first place:
Alan Moore steps out of his house for a bit and visits Occupy London.
Interview with Mark Waid on Daredevil-
http://www.blastoffcomics.com/2012/01/the-blastoff-video-interview-mark-waid/
I don’t want to turn this thread into crass self-promotion, but here’s my coverage of this year’s Michigan State University Comics Forum:
Nice. I like Jessica Abel. I’ve sat in on one of her panels before, when she was at APE here in San Francisco. I really like La Perdida. Great book. The other comic of hers that I’ve read is LifeSucks, which she wrote. (Warren Pleece drew it.) Life Sucks wasn’t as outstanding as La Perdida, but still an enjoyable read.
Your report also reminded me of Korgi… I got the first book years ago and loved it. Man, I need to get some more of that. And I just read Ellis’ Crecy a few months back. Ellis is definitely one of my three favorite comics writers. That’s good to hear that the panel talked about Crecy as an educational piece.
She was really interesting. One observation I don’t think I recorded in the blogs was that she seems to be the first guest of honor at these events without a Michigan connection. Obviously they chose her because he’s an accomplished artist with smart things to say, but I hope the well hasn’t already dried up for homegrown talent.
(Flash fact: the previous three years hosted David Petersen, Guy Davis, and Nate Powell.)
(Flash fact: holy god, has it really been four years since I started going to this thing?)
Growing up Kirby: The Marvel memories of Jack Kirby’s son-
Grant Morrison chats with Playboy about the various characters he’s either created or worked on.
Note: there are no NSFW images on this page. Nevertheless, it is Playboy.com, and Playboy’s excellent journalism is unfortunately overshadowed by its reputation for boobies. If you’re at work, use your best judgment.
It’s almost 3AM, Only Morrison (and Ponies) could keep me awake this late.
Thanks for the link goody~
Heh had to use Babelfish to access the site since Playboy is blocked by my ISP. Some very interesting stuff.
I found that there isn’t much new if you’re familiar with Morrison’s previous interviews, but it’s a good one-stop-shop allocation of his ideas re. superheroes and other characters he’s done. It is pretty much the Morrison A-list, though I wish he’d said a few words about good ol’ Buddy Baker.
I’m currently reading Tim Callahan’s career retrospective of Alan Moore.
Here’s one of my favorite observations so far:
Yeah, those are some good write-ups he’s got there. I enjoyed his latest one about Alan Moore’s Spawn. I just read Spawn #8 when I was going poo last week. It’s a good toilet read. Definitely not one of Moore’s finest works, but I like Callahan’s idea of just reading someone’s entire bibliography and examining even the lesser works in context of an entire career. I think that’s why I pursue particular creators regardless of the character or title they work on.
That observation about Moore and omnipotence is particularly cognizant. I think it’s not only writers who have a tendency to think that Superman (and other characters like him) have to be stripped of his power in order to become “relatable.” I think a lot of fanboys feel the same way, and that’s why they can’t enjoy even quality Superman comics. Wasn’t there just someone in the DC thread stating something to that effect recently?
It’s one of those commonsense things that everybody knows, even though it’s completely wrong.
Alan Moore wrote Star Wars comics? This I gotta look into.
Here’s an interesting bit of treasure: an interview with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, conducted around the time Watchmen #3 was hitting the stands, conducted by a pre-Sandman Neil Gaiman.
There isn’t a lot of “new” info here, but it’s nice to see it come from such an interesting source. And, of course, there is some stuff here that’s funny/depressing in hindsight. I don’t think I need to point to it.
Good find. I enjoyed that old interview.