Getting Interviewed About Fight-Man

Someone on Twitter asked me if they could send me some questions about Fight-Man. I said, "sure", and sent them my e-mail and now I have a few questions to answer about Fight-Man.

I was also asked about World's Funnest, which boiled down to "How the hell did someone like you get to work with people like Dave Gibbons, Frank Miller and Alex Ross, et al? Although it was put in far more polite terms than how I put it., and meant in good faith.

It's a super-valid question for people who don't really know who I am, or how the industry worked in the late 1980's-1990's, pre-digital times and before an influx of so much young talent in mainstream and indy/artsy comics. It was a smaller field and it was much easier to rub shoulders with the big shots at conventions and functions. And parties. And I lived in NYC, so I was floating around for a while as an amateur artist at local cons, doing cheap sketches. And I worked at a comic shop that people admired, and I met people through that. And things led to things, and work led to work. And now no one in marvel or DC editorial knows who I am and that's the way it goes. Which is okay, because neither company really offers the kind of work that I'd be interested in anymore. I'm light-years out of the loop regarding the current status of their respective universes, and they don't do a lot of comedy. Marvel's never been interested in Fight-Man, so I don't have a toe in the door as far as that goes. I do wish there were anthologies or oddball high-concept projects like Bizarro and Captain America: Red, White and Blue still in play. I like doing short scripts and stories, and there's not much going on at the paying companies towards that end. At least not the kind of stuff anyone would consider me for.

I posted the first two pages of Fight-Man pencils a while back, so while I have Fight-Man on the brain, here's the xeroxes for pages 3-6. Marvel's xerox machines could be hit or miss, as you can see.

More soon, later.