Australia’s ABC News arts blog talks with artist-writer Ben Templesmith about the 30 Days of Night film, his influences, Fell, and the comics industry:

The mainstream media generally ignores comics though I have to admit. It’s only when you get publisher contrived publicity stories like “the death of Captain America” which make for good headlines… but of course they never actually killed him off really… that the mainstream takes much notice. I can’t blame them too much, since Anglo-American comics is a rather small market and are for the most part viewed as only one genre: superhero-adolescent-power-fantasy. Only about a quarter to half a million readers in all. Despite this there’s a hell of a lot of movies coming out of comics these days. And I’m not talking the generic corporate stuff like Spiderman or Batman either. There’s been The Crow, Road to Perdition, V for Vendetta, Sin City, and most recently the huge 300. The active imaginations of the comic book world have much more to offer than just guys in tights for the mainstream public I think.

Related: A preview of Templesmith’s Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse #7

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