Search Results

O'Neil reflects on over 20 years in comics, describing how royalties, creator ownership, and the direct market have transformed the industry beyond what he could have imagined. He speaks candidly about the personal fallout from the sudden fame brought by his Green Lantern/Green Arrow run with Neal Adams, including a deteriorating marriage and a period of diminished work quality, and credits his recovery and subsequent sobriety as his greatest personal success. Now editing Batman, Detective, Firestorm, and Warlord at DC, he discusses his views on deadlines, fan criticism, and the craft of writing the Tony Stark alcoholism arc in Iron Man from personal experience.

The Batman group editor discusses the KnightQuest storyline in depth, explaining how Bruce Wayne's crippling and Jean-Paul Valley's assumption of the Batman identity were planned two years in advance as a deliberate reinvigoration of the titles. O'Neil reflects on Batman as modern mythology, the challenges of stewarding a 54-year-old legend through its fifth major reinvention, and his plans for a future Question story once his Batman writing commitments are complete.

Brabner edited Real War Stories for the CCCO and recruited top talent including Alan Moore, Brian Bolland, Denny O'Neil, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Steve Bissette. She describes the book as strictly non-fiction — no composite characters, no fictionalization — and recounts how two publishers got cold feet before Eclipse agreed to publish it. She reveals that Harvey Pekar wrote a story for the book that she rejected, and that her next project will be a comic about the Christic Institute's investigation into a CIA-linked secret team.

Wolfman discusses taking over the Batman title in its 50th anniversary year, including his plans for Batman: Year Three and the challenge of balancing present and past storylines at editor Denny O'Neil's direction. He reflects on his history with the character through Dick Grayson's transition to Nightwing and his fondness for Tomb of Dracula as the book where he learned his craft. He also addresses the Batman movie's influence, upcoming villains like Two-Face and Crimesmith, and returning supporting characters like Lucius Fox and Alfred.

Hannigan discusses drawing the premiere arc of Legends of the Dark Knight, DC's landmark new Batman series set just after Batman: Year One, which sold close to a million copies on its first issue. He reflects on the full-script method vs. the Marvel style, the commercial controversy of the four-cover variant collectible gimmick, his philosophical disagreements with scripter Denny O'Neil, and his admiration for Batman: Year One as the gold standard of superhero storytelling. He also addresses the dangers of shared-universe crossover bloat and the collector-market bubble, and discusses plans for a future personal creator-owned project.

Stelfreeze discusses his origins in commercial and fashion illustration in Atlanta, his early work for Comics Interview Group, and how a rejected Batman sketch he drew for Comics Revue #50 — deliberately violating DC's style guidelines — ended up winning Denny O'Neil's attention and led to his contract painting the first twelve covers of DC's new Shadow of the Bat series. He talks about his graphic approach to anatomy, his mixed-media painting technique combining airbrush, acrylics, and colored inks, his enthusiasm for Gaijin Studios (a creative collective with Adam Hughes, Tony Harris, Joe Phillips, Cully Hamner, and Jason Pearson), and his reaction to the Image Comics breakaway.