The Kansas City Star talks to comic creator Matt Fraction, as well as some of his local peers, about a variety of topics, including Fraction’s new Iron Man book:

“They said, ‘OK, the (Iron Man) movie’s coming, and we’re going to do this book. What do we do?’ ” Fraction recalled. “I just started to throw ideas out, and about two years’ worth of stories came very quickly. Eventually, the editor in chief came up and tapped me on the shoulder and said, ‘OK, you got it.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, great, sweet.’ ”

Fraction’s just one of a group of rising Kansas City area comic creators who are writing or illustrating some of the industry’s most iconic characters — the Flash, Wolverine, Superman and Batman among them — and some of the most innovative new series. Fraction figures that more than a dozen working comic creators in their 20s and 30s live in the Kansas City area.

“It’s a point of trivia almost, like, ‘Well, what’s in the water out there?’ ” Fraction said. “If we were bands and making albums and this was Seattle in 1990 — sure, it makes sense. But comics? What? It’s just a weird kind of coincidence.”

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