As is his wont, Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon featured another top-notch interview yesterday, this time with Kane and Jack Staff creator Paul Grist:
SPURGEON: How do you think your career might have gone differently if the attempts to create a more widely diverse comics market in your home country had been more successful? I know you were a part of at least Trident Comics.
GRIST: I probably wouldn’t be writing. I always wanted to “tell stories” but was never too confident about the writing. I always regarded my art as stronger and found it easier to get work as an artist — my professional career began with drawing for a girls comic called Nikki. After the collapse of Trident and Tundra UK, which were both attempts to set up a UK-based comic company and both were set up to publish Burglar Bill, that pushed me into self publishing (which was one of those things I’d wanted to do since I’d started reading Cerebus, but had never had the confidence to do) with Kane and then Jack Staff. And the weird thing is it tends to be the writing that impresses people…
