Over at GutterGeek, Chris Reilly interviews “Smell of Steve” creator/artist Brian Sendelbach, who has irons in numerous fires these days. Topics include the inspirational power of boredom, the potivational power of paid work, and the debilitating power of acne. Chris also runs down, up, and all over recent comic book releases.
The Gahan Wilson interview concludes, with discussions about scary movies, the Great Depression and Mel Brooks.
Brendan Leach is the creator of one of the year’s most enjoyable comics – The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City. As I noted in an earlier Comics Journal post, Pterodactyl Hunters is a clever mock newspaper…
I met Gahan Wilson at the Horror Writers Association (HWA) Stoker Awards Banquet in New York City in 1998. We talked over a drink at one of the cocktail parties at the weekend event. In addition to feeling somewhat awestruck to be in the presence of one of the greatest contemporary cartoonists, whose work has appeared in Playboy,
The fourth installment of an extensive four-part interview with the author of The King Canute Crowd, The Fate of the Artist and co-creator of From Hell, originally published in The Comics Journal #273.
In the conclusion of this three-part interview, Wilson talks about the cancellation of Air, the Standard Attrition website, the challenges inherent in writing memoir and being interrogated by little blonde stewardesses.
The third installment of an extensive four-part interview with the author of The King Canute Crowd, The Fate of the Artist and co-creator of From Hell, originally published in The Comics Journal #273.
In Part Two of a three-part interview, Wilson talks about how it’s harder to break into comics than The New York Times, writing superhero books in continuity, and how she scripts.
“I’m a comic-book writer who wears a headscarf,” says G. Willow Wilson.”That should be a contradiction.” Indeed, in a time when the news is riddled with stories about violence over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, and the ties between the West and the Middle East are increasingly strained, those characteristics could easily be dismissed as conflicting. But Wilson chooses to write not only about how the West and the Middle East conflict, but how they complement each other.
Wilson made her debut in the comics medium with her book Cairo, which she collaborated on with artist M.K. Perker (and with whom she is currently collaborating on their ongoing Vertigo series, Air). Originally from Colorado, Wilson now splits her time between Seattle, Wash., and Cairo, Egypt. In her new memoir, The Butterfly Mosque, she shares her love of Islam; how she became immersed in Egyptian life; and the difficulties she had reconciling her love for both Western and Middle Eastern culture.
During their recent interview in Seattle, which took place on June 11, 2010, Wilson spoke to Ian Burns about her career thus far, her experiences in the comics industry and a concept she calls “hyperpraxis.”
The second installment of an extensive four-part interview with the author of The King Canute Crowd, The Fate of the Artist and co-creator of From Hell, originally published in The Comics Journal #273.
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