Mighty Wizard editor Sean T. Collins dropped a note to let me know of two new interviews up on the Wizard site. The first, is with My Chemical Romance’s lead singer Gerard Way and Dark Horse editor Scott Allie about Way’s upcoming Dark Horse series The Umbrella Academy. Actually the interview is mostly with Allie, but I’ll share a snippet of what Way had to say:
Was it difficult to make time for Academy in your touring schedule?
WAY: Writing the book while on the road was a challenge at first, and at times still a struggle. It really boils down to discipline, though, as you can have all the time in the world, but if you aren’t disciplined you’ll spend your downtime drinking too much coffee in cafes and walking around looking at statues all day, which is all very helpful, but sucks up your time. The biggest battle was becoming exhausted, physically and mentally, from being on the road. It’s tough to pull yourself out of bed on an off-day when you have been run ragged, but I get as much sleep as I can these days, go to bed early and wake up early, in order to get as much done as I can on the comic. I’ve turned into a responsible adult because of the comic. Ha!
Then, Mike Mignola talks about the upcoming film Hellboy 2: The Golden Army and his new prose novel, Baltimore:
Okay, let’s switch gears and talk about the book: How did Baltimore come about?
MIGNOLA: This one came about very different than most things I’ve done. This is gonna sound weird. I was actually watching a really boring movie, my mind wandered and I made up probably two-thirds of this story in five minutes. Between the time I got bored with the movie and the time my wife and I walked out of the movie, I had made up most of the story. The movie took place in this Italian village, so it had these beautiful villas with amazing architecture with great old stone crumbling walls. And I thought I wanted to do something cool in that setting. And it just…thwppp…came out.
