Wizard Magazine talks to critic (and fellow Savage Critic) Douglas Wolk about his book, Reading Comics, and also, reading comics:
I never wanted to do a straight academic book, and the first draft I did was much more seriously academic, and I thought, “This is no fun at all. I want this to be entertaining and pleasurable to read. I really have to rethink the tone if I want to do that.” So I had to rework a ton of stuff that I’d written in a more formal way first to be more lively and personal and based around my voice—but at the same time trying not to go overboard. There’s a little bit of stuff in there that’s kind of about me, but I have a big problem with people writing about themselves when they are not that interesting themselves. If there’s something that I can’t make interesting to someone else about myself, I don’t want to talk about it in print.
