I’m guilty of this myself. If me and my girlfriend are in company of her mates or new people and one of them says…
"So Michael, what do you want to do with your career?"
…I’ll happily tell them I plan on being a respected writer. But oh the shame of me, I leave out the fact its comic books I’d love to write. I mean why hide this fact? What am I ashamed of?
Comics are one of the best mediums in the written world industry; I mean come on what other format can straddle the depth of a novel with the visual flair of a movie? I think the problem I have is that I don’t commit myself properly to explaining what comics are to these new people. Everyone thinks it’s just about kids stories about a latex hero bounding around America saving lives and saying cheesy lines of dialogue. Comics are so much more than that, read any Sandman, Preacher, Hell Blazer, The Originals, Black Hole, DMZ, Commando and many more comics like them and you’ll see that comics DON’T have to be about cliché superheroes.
Don’t get me wrong I love Superhero stuff but a lot of them just go through the motions but hey comics are so good that if you want to read about Superheroes there is plenty of them with real depth and talk to you as an adult and not a child like such work as Kingdom Come, Watchmen, and The Dark Knight Returns.
So why do I feel embarrassed about admitting that I write small press comics? I think really it’s to do with actually not yet achieving to get something published in that medium. I’m sure when “The legend known as” finally comes out I’ll be screaming from the rooftops that I write comics!
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