In the following email interview about his comic book Skull Cat: Book 1: Skull Cat And The Curious Castle (paperback, Kindle), writer / artist Norman Shurtliff admits that he drew some inspiration from his own life. And no, that’s not my way of telling you that Norman is a kitty. At least I don’t think he’s a kitty…
If you grew up playing video games, then you grew up with the frustration of some well-meaning relative buying you a terrible game you didn’t want and not the one you did. But while that’s also the indignity that Dul suffers in the graphic novel Super Trash Clash (paperback, Kindle), Clash writer and artist Edgar Camacho says in the following email interview that you need not be a frustrated gamer to understand, and enjoy, this heart-wrenching story.
Writer / director Cameron Crowe recently set the Internet ablaze when he mentioned that he’d love to make a Marvel movie based about the musical mutant, Dazzler. But while comic book fans were excited by the idea, not everyone is as familiar with this member of the X-Men as, say, Wolverine or Professor X. No matter. Now you can learn more about her in Amanda Bridgeman’s new novel Sound Of Light: A Marvel: School Of X Novel (paperback, Kindle) — which, in turn, you can learn more about in the following email interview.
In Marvel’s comics, movies, TV shows, and video games, some heroes are serious, and some are not so serious. And then there’s Squirrel Girl. Who, of course, has the powers of a…well, you know. And while she doesn’t have her own Marvel movie, show, or game — yet! — the selfless superhero does have her first novel courtesy of writer Tristan Palmgren. In the following email interview about Squirrel Girl Universe (paperback, Kindle), Palmgren discusses what inspired and influenced this furry tale, as well as how it connects to the other Marvel novels published by Aconyte.
In the 125 years since Bram Stoker first published Dracula, a great many of his fellow writers have put their own unique spin on the character. But Rich Davis’ graphic novel Cult Of Dracula may be the first that, as he says in the following email interview, is, “…set within the friendly confines of a Manson Family inspired cult.” But this interview isn’t about Cult; it’s about the second installment of this comic book trilogy, Rise Of Dracula (paperback), in which Davis continues the story by veering even further from the Dracula we know and love.
Frank Herbert’s sci-fi space opera novel Dune has been wildly influential since it was first released in 1965. And not just on other novels. Its influence has been felt in movies, video games, and, of course, comic books. So it’s fitting that Dune would become the subject of its own comic book adaptation. In the following email interview, the artists working on this visual version — Patricia Martín and Raúl Allén— discuss the second book of three, Dune, The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad’Dib (hardcover, Kindle).
When we get older, we are often asked — and ask ourselves — what we would say to our younger selves if we could.
But writer / artist Gengoroh Tagame has taken this thought experiment one step further with Our Colors (hardcover, Kindle) a new manga that, as he explains in the following email interview (translated by Anne Ishii), he wrote for teenage Gengoroh.
For years, some comic book fans regarded Aquaman as a joke. Heck, there was a whole Robot Chicken DC Comics Special about it. But then they cast Game Of Thrones‘ Jason Mamoa to play the man from Atlantis, and now no one is laughing at Aquaman. Well, almost no one. As a companion to Mamoa’s Aquaman, that movie’s director, James Wan, executive produced a three-part animated miniseries for HBO Max called Aquaman: King Of Atlantis that presented a rather silly take on the fish king. But while fans of the sea man will enjoy this animated romp (which has since been reconfigured into a movie) on DVD, they’ll find the disc is rather lacking in the extras department.