![]() There was a story about a support group for superheroes with awful powers, like one of them never had to go to the bathroom and he was always like “well where does it all go?!” But I took it really seriously and I did this tragic story about a kid that was to close the Bikini Atoll tests on his ship in the 1950s and wound up irradiated and came back with these powers.Īnd I caught the attention of Mark Doyle and Jeanine Schaefer, who at that time were young editors at DC and Marvel respectively, and they came to the reading for the book. And Owen was like, “this is an anthology for writers who love comic books but are in the literary world and want to make up new superheroes or supervillains.” So, a lot of it was funny and humorous. My local comic store out here, Fourth World, was like my hideout, the place that I went to escape all the pressure. And amidst this, I got an offer from a friend of mine, Owen King, to be in an anthology of short stories about superheroes. This is just so that you can pay the bills.” And I was drinking too much, I mean, the whole thing-my marriage was straining, it was really awful. You can do a version of it or another story that's more yourself. Do this one for them and then you'll do one for you. I kept saying to myself, “just get this one done. I had the job that I thought I wanted, I was a writer, but I would go downstairs and work on this book and just hate it. And it was the most miserable period of my life. And I had totally misjudged everything where I realized that the only way I was gonna get the money that I thought I was promised was to write something that was going to be hugely successful.Īnd so, I started changing the story-adding a love interest, giving a villain, all of this stuff. And so even though my publisher was really nice, I felt this huge pressure because we had just moved and bought a house and we had had a baby (who is now 14), but back then was just barely anything. And it was about aviation in the early 1900s, and I really loved it, but it was a quieter book, and as the economy crashed and contracted in 2007/2008, the book market began to dry up and it became clear that this was a book that, to earn back its advance, would need to be a big bestseller. What happened was, I had signed this two-book deal with Random House where they had taken the stories, but really what they were after, even more, I think, was that the second book, the novel, and they had taken it on spec. I was working on a novel, essentially, for the same publisher, for Random House & Dial. So, I was working in books in 2006/2007, and I had done this collection of short stories that had done pretty well for me. ![]() I wrote a collection of short stories, and I was lucky enough to find an agent and sell them. I went to grad school for fiction, and I traveled around the country and worked some odd jobs. And then in college, I had even kept up with illustration, but I realized in my late teens/early 20s that I wasn't good enough, and so I fell more into fiction. I had always wanted to be a comic book writer/artist, like Frank Miller or Mike Mignola. So, for me, when I first pitched it, the way that it all happened was… I was working in books. It's the one that really made my dreams come true, not to sound too corny. American Vampire is the series that launched my whole comics career. I’ve written about as much of this series as anything, even Batman, and I have such big feelings about it. Our final issue comes out, American Vampire 1976 #10, and I think it constitutes probably about our 50th or 60th issue. ![]() Hey, it’s Scott, and today I was gonna talk a little bit about American Vampire.
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