Mr. Skin talks to Peter Bagge:
Did you go to any Screw parties?
I went to one, held in the bowling alley in Madison Square Garden, which I didn’t even know existed until I went to that party! [Publisher] Al Goldstein paid for all the food, games, and beer, and he wore a denim jumpsuit with a giant embroidered eagle on it. He was great! Some of my friends were assholes that night, though; one of them hit me on the head with his beer mug, and later another picked me up and dropped me on my head. My poor head!
PW talks to Dwayne McDuffie:
Comics stories are large ongoing things, and the people who read them are extremely aware of almost everything that’s going on inside and outside the individual comic. A TV show is something that even your biggest fans have a much more casual relationship with. So you really have to think of a single episode as a one-off. So, even in Justice League, where we did long, involved continuing stories, individual units had to work for someone who hadn’t necessarily watched all of the other episodes. As a writer, you’re coming at it a very different way.
Silver Bullet talks to First Second’s Mark Seigel:
I don’t think First Second is a repeat story. It’s not trying to be something that exists already, nor is it another jump on some bandwagon. I think a few things set it apart. Having the whole gamut of age categories is fairly uncommon. And I’m working to make First Second a home for creators, the best home possible—and that means giving authors the best editorial care, quality art direction, but also after the book is done, championing it in the world. Lots of houses publish and release, and after that point the titles sink or swim.
And John Jakala reprints an old interview with manga-ka Usamaru Furuya:
Garo really focused on the personality of the artist. In other words, they emphasized letting artists create whatever they wanted to create. On the down side, you didn’t get paid. Those were the merits and demerits of Garo. With a major Japanese manga magazine, where magazines are a business, the artist doesn’t create by himself. You work together with your editor. At first, this put me at something of a loss.
