Words matter. These are the best Kurt Busiek Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.
I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.
I wrote ‘Marvels,’ which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote ‘Astro City Volume 2 #1,’ which was about a guy who had two daughters. In both cases, about a year and a half or two years apart. And then after that, I had two daughters, about a year and a half or two years apart.
Between ‘Avengers,’ ‘JLA/Avengers,’ and ‘Trinity,’ I’ve gotten down and dirty in the big universes and had a hell of a time playing in those sandboxes.
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.
At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that’s just my definition.
The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and show people what’s in them when they read them, not tell them all about it ahead of time.
I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like ‘Fables,’ to books like ‘Saga,’ ‘Fatale,’ ‘Hellboy,’ and ‘Courtney Crumrin.’
That’s the way it happens – some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn’t really matter how you got them.
I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M’Elu, for a backup story in ‘Green Lantern #162,’ my first professional sale.
I don’t view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.
Marvel’s got a crowded universe, and there are already so many characters hogging the spotlight that it’s hard to break through that. First off, whatever character you’re creating, odds are, there’s already someone similar in one way or another.
I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.
Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it’s an organizing principle that helps us write a story that has some weight; it’s not something that all readers have to care about.
I’m a writer. I just love telling stories.
