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Sunday, September 26, 2004
Who Wrote That Book Anyway?
There will be more Howard Chaykin talk in the coming week, but first I want to link to Abhay Khosla (formerly of Movie Poop Shoot's Title Bout column) excerpts from an interview Chaykin did in a 1989 issue of Comics Interivew.
This part made me laugh:
Chaykin on DC and a certain current star who goes unnamed because Chaykin can't remember his name: "I mean, bear in mind that DC is the company that was convinced DARK KNIGHT was a commercial dog, and was convinced that THE SHADOW [Chaykin's successful comic, not the shitty Baldwin movie] was going to go right down the toilet. DC continues to shoot itself in the foot by never knwoing when its output is any good. I mean, I had the first page of ARKHAM ASYLUM read to me on the phone yesterday[..], and it was one of the funniest things I've ever heard, but not intentionally. I'm not talking about the script. I'm talking about the plot, the artist's direction - this guy is the most pretentious asshole I have ever read." More on this MUCH later in the interview: "As I said, I had this page of ARKHAM ASYLUM read to me, and this guy in his art directions demonstrates that he's read Freud, Krafft-Ebing, Jung, tons of material on early religion, and this is all to service Killer Croc and the Mad Hatter. Do you see any irony here?"
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