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Comic book history – Comic book writer – Christopher Priest interview

Christopher Priest has been a comic book writer for over 40 years and has worked for both Marvel and DC. He’s written for Deathstroke, Justice League, Vampirella and many other titles. He also helped to redevelop Black Panther.

{Note: The sound gets better after a minute or so but I wanted to include some interesting pre-interview talk that unfortunately doesn’t have the same sound quality as the full interview.}

0:20 – Christopher talks about the creation of Black Panther.

1:35 – Christopher talks about how Black Panther developed.

2:36 – Christopher talked about how he got into the comic book business.

4:00 – Christopher talks about what got him his job at Marvel.

6:30 – Christopher talked about working on Cracked magazine and being mentored by Stan Lee.

8:05 – Christopher talked about what story lines inspired him most.

10:15 – Christopher talks about his various career milestones.

12:50 – Christopher talks about the comic book business.

14:45 – Christopher talks about how he got Power Man and Iron Fist.

16:30 – Christopher talks about where he gets his writing ideas from.

20:15 – Christopher talks about developing Man Ape.

22:15 – Christopher talks about his role with the Black Panther film.

23:00 – Christopher talks about how he redeveloped Black Panther.

26:50 – Christopher talks about his professional life following Black Panther.

stop at 29:00

35:00 – Christopher talks about Deathstroke on tv.

36:03 – Christopher talks about the storylines he created that he’s most proud of. He goes into his Justice League storyline.

43:54 – Christopher can be found on Christopherpriest.com

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Links of interest

http://christopherpriest.com/cpdc/

Guests: Christopher Priest

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: comic books, writer, green lantern, DC comics, Marvel, Stan Lee, Cracked, Spiderman, Batman, Power Man, Iron Fist, Conan, Deathstroke, Justice League, News Radio, Iron Man, Vampirella

Comic book writing – Jordan Clark interview – Far Point 2018

Jordan Clark is a comic book writer whom I interviewed at Far Point 2018 about his work.

1:35 – Jordan tells me about his writing on Bitch Planet comics. Then he discusses his comic book Duality which has a sci-fi feel to it. He also discusses another book about a Doc Savage type character.

4:48 – Jordan is inspired by things in his own life or things he notices around him. Music playlists help him get in the right state of mind to write.

7:16 – He started writing when he was young. But he didn’t get into comic book writing until after college, about 3 or 4 years ago.

8:27 – Kurt Vonnegut and James Baldwin are two of his inspirations because of their humanism.

10:27 – He’s a big fan of Grant Morrison and Alan Moore. He’s a fan of Silver Age comics. He likes comics that are really comic and have stories you can’t find in other media.

12:45 – He likes the Criterion Collection movies for inspiration. He likes punk music for inspiration, Devo, David Bowie and the Clash.

16:12 – He always wanted super speed so that he could get more stuff done.

18:57 – He’s on twitter at jrsosa18. His website is jclark.squarespace.com.

Links of interest

http://jclarkcomics.squarespace.com/

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Guests: Jordan Clark

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: writer, comic books, duality, doc savage, criterion

Sci-fi author Peter David interview – Far Point 2018 – youtube

Peter David has been a professional writer for over 30 years. He’s written novels, comic books, television, video games and so on. He wrote Incredible Hulk for 12 years and has written both DC and Marvel comics. He’s written numerous Star Trek novels and comic books. I was able to interview him at Far Point 2018. He has a website and is on twitter and facebook.

1:26 – Peter David has been working on the third book in the Hidden Earth trilogy and it’s taken a while so he hopes fans like it. He’s also writing the Scarlet Spider for Marvel Comics and a Battlestar Galactica 6 issue limited series where the original crew meets the crew from the new series.

2:36 – He liked the Fallen Angel comic book series. He likes his Atlantis chronicles and his Hulk work. However, he’ll look at his past work and still find things he doesn’t like. He finds things he doesn’t think he did correctly.

5:20 – People often ask what inspires him. He says what he makes from his work inspires him. But he also has too much in his brain to not be a writer. It’s an addiction and obsession. Ideas come to writers ferociously and with clarity.

7:16 – Fan interaction is his favorite part of writing. The act itself is a very lonely business. He likes being told what fans like and don’t like.

8:11 – He started writing as a kid and kept going. His father was a reporter and he thought he might be a newspaperman. But instead he became a fiction writer. He reads a lot to get better at writing. For example, he didn’t like present tense writing until he saw Stephen King had done it.

11:20 – The writer should show society the ways it can be better. Science fiction might be the best way to do this. He enjoys the Orville because it shows the way things might be. The shows has gotten better with each episode.

13:33 – He enjoys Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Stan Lee. He uses other writers to reflect on his own work. The older masters provide good lesson but the newer writers inspire too with the new things they try.

14:51 – He doesn’t use science as the basis for his works but he makes sure his Star Trek novels have consistent science. For example he wanted to make Odo from Deep Space 9 maintain his mass when he changes shape.

16:31 – Mr. David likes movies and tv but he will critize them. For example Superman IV made him think that the UN would not be happy with Superman’s decision to get rid of nuclear weapons. It would be Superman against the world. They would get Lex Luthor to fight him. If he ever wrote Superman, that’s the story he would write.

18:46 – Mr. David talked to Dale Keown, his artist on Incredible Hulk, about predicting how movies will go. Writers can figure out how a story will go. Mr. David figured out how Tango and Cash would go after watching for 30 minutes. The most recent Star Wars film fooled him though when Luke showed up for the final battle in the way he did. He also predicted Sixth Sense after the first two minutes.

22:16 – He would love to teleport. He’d like to be like Nightcrawler.

Links

https://www.peterdavid.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orville

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Guests: Peter David

Host: Cris Alvarez