Search Results

Chadwick traces his path from a Seattle suburb childhood and Marvel fandom through the influential Portland APA-5, art school at the Art Center College of Design, a career storyboarding Hollywood films (*Pee-Wee's Big Adventure*, The Big Easy, Strange Brew), and science-fiction paperback cover painting before finally committing to Concrete. He discusses the psychological origins of the Concrete concept — a fantasy of passive, rock-like invulnerability — and emphasizes that it is the execution and character detail, not the high-concept idea, that give the book its value. He also reveals that Frank Miller was an early APA-5 member alongside himself and several future Dark Horse principals.

Part one of a three-part interview with the principals of Star*Reach Productions, the comics industry's only dedicated talent agency. Friedrich traces the agency's founding in 1982, its growth to over 50 clients (including P. Craig Russell, Paul Chadwick, Roy Thomas, Steve Englehart, and Mark Wheatley), and its philosophy of building cooperative creator–publisher relationships rather than adversarial ones.