Occupation: Writer Birth: January 16, 1970
Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, alt….
I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I ca….
Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see ….
I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, ….
With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure..
What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart...and your father casts you out...and you fall..
I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out ….
It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I c….
I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anyth….
Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the….
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimenta….
You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him..
It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather th….
Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be..
As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start..
Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even i….
I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it mi….
Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like him, Alan Moore and Frank Mill….
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write..
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand..
I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been g….