Halloween may be done and gone, but that’s no reason you can’t still enjoy this new interview with Richard Sala, courtesy of The Groovy Age of Horror folks:
3. You’ve said superheroes don’t interest you much, and yet your comics are chock full of bizarre masked characters (In Peculia, for example, Justine and Obscurus and that whole mob of cat-girls). What are the crucial differences that make the former so uninteresting to you, but the latter so fascinating?
I don’t think of every character with a mask as a superhero. Is that what people think these days? I love the ideas of masks — not so much all the other stuff that goes with superheroes. I don’t hate superheroes or anything — not at all — but I’m kind of old-fashioned, I guess. I personally prefer the whole nightworld-type of heroes like The Shadow (the pulps – not the movie or comics) or The Spider. Less sci-fi, more mystery and magic.
