The Daily Cross Hatch has part one of an interview up with Alex Robinson, creator of Box Office Poison, Lower Regions and the upcoming Too Cool to Be Forgotten:
The fascination with superhero comics seems to be something of a reoccurring theme with independent cartoonists. Everyone grew up reading Kirby, Ditko, et. al. Does the idea of doing a superhero book, at this point in the game appeal to you?
It does in the sense that some people from Marvel and DC have been saying, “hey, you should pitch us some stories.” When Box Office Poison first came out and there was some buzz around, they asked me to pitch them so stories, but I just couldn’t think of any that interested me. I like them in theory, but all of the stories that I came up with were just me regurgitating stories that John Byrne and Chris Claremont came up with, 25 years ago. I guess with fantasy comics, because I don’t know too many of them, it’s kind of a wider field. It’s kind of a cliché, but there’s more fresh material for more in this well-covered ground.
Although Robinson doesn’t talk about Too Cool to Be Forgotten in this part of the interview (I assume that’ll come up in part two), it did give me the opportunity to use the really cool Matt Kindt-designed cover that Robinson shared on his LiveJournal last month.
December 19th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Kool cover! brings back memories of my dad sending me to the corner store to get his daily pack of Kools for him. ah, the ’70s.