“When
you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history
right.” – Kurt Busiek
Born on this date in 1960,
award-winning comics writer Busiek got started during his senior year in
college when he submitted some sample scripts to editor Dick Giordano at DC
Comics. None of them sold, but they did
get him invitations to pitch other material to DC editors, which led to his
first professional work, a back-up story in Green Lantern.
By 1993, Busiek and was teaming with
artist Alex Ross and together they produced the Marvels limited series
which, as comics historian Matthew K. Manning notes, "reinvigorated
painted comics as a genre, went on to become an acclaimed masterpiece, and
spawned more than its own fair share of imitators."
as “best writer” for the Marvel Series, The Avengers, which
also have been made into several movies, and a version of Conan the
Barbarian. Since 2006 he’s also done
extensive writing of stories about Spiderman, Superman, Batman and Wonder
Woman.
“I could name you a dozen
superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the
world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the
technical skill of the people who made it,” he said. “Because then I could have even more fun
writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.”
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