If the character can do no wrong and is perfect in every way, he is not a terribly interesting character.
I’m probably the quintessential hack writer. I don’t get inspirations as such. And when I don’t have something to write, I’m not thinking about it at all. But, […]
I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I’d keep my job.
Comic book should be written as one word. So from now on, I want you to remember that. I never want to see the word comicbook written as […]
Once, I’d written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of […]
A superhero’s catchphrase should be like a really memorable advertising slogan. It sticks in your head and you can’t stop humming it. And let’s face it, superheroes are […]
If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could […]
I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began […]
Now the comic books themselves have gotten better and better. Because more and more top writers and top artists, who in the past might not have considered working […]
I would love us to do something with Will Smith, but I don’t know that he’s Captain America. That would be a long shot. It would be a […]
I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.