Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Brian Azzarello on Crime and Superheroes
Pictures: Seth Kushner
“I don’t change my approach to anything, and I approach everything the same way;” Brian Azzarello says. “To come up with a story that, hopefully, is different than what you expect.”
Brian Azzarello is not just a crime writer, or a noir writer, or even a post-modernist superhero writer with deconstructionist tendencies: he doesn’t like to be labeled, and focuses on just telling a good story.
“What makes a good noir story?” Brian posits. “Let me answer that for you: it’s a great mistake.”
But, for a minute and keeping in the damnable crime/noir label, if Azzarello were in the interrogation chair with a light in his face, his short answers would frustrate the most patient cop. It becomes abundantly clear in a short amount of time—Brian Azzarello has thought his work, and the craft of writing, out so much that he’s boiled it down to points.
In short, he ain’t talking much, but what he has to say is brilliant.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Dan Didio: Comics and Controversy
Words: Christopher Irving
Pictures: Seth Kushner
“When you’re telling something controversial and everybody embraces it, then you must’ve taken some shortcuts or made some mistakes along the way,” Dan Didio says from the seventh floor lobby of DC Comics, surrounded by Superman-themed props, like a chunk of Kryptonite, a phone booth façade, and a Superman mannequin suspended from the ceiling. “But if you try to expand it out so that you have so much reaction and they can’t wait to see what happens next, then you’ve accomplished your job. The last thing we want in anything we do is apathy, and the last thing we want to see is that nobody cares. That’s the easiest way to lose an audience, and not something we want to do.”
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