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Friday, March 18, 2005
Baker's dozens
The problem is smart children don't have as much money as grown idiots, so we make the books for grown idiots who want to read about crying Martians who talk a lot.
-Kyle Baker
Thanks to a link I found through Tom we can all now read another great interview from Kyle Baker. Baker is one of those folks who always sound right whenever they talk about the state of the comic book industry. I think it might be the fact that Baker doesn't have to do comics, he's certainly made a name for himself as an illustrator and someone working in animation. That gives him a sense of perspective which makes for great and truthful quotes like the one above.
Most of the interview isn't Baker spouting off about superheroes, though, it's about his latest book about Nat Turner. There are art samples you can see, too, which makes me excited about the book. In fact, I think I need to pick up Cowboy Wally and Why I Hate Saturn one of these days.
This week's Plastic Man was pretty good, too. I love it when he uses the "Sergio Argones-meets-animation" style. The beginning also proves my theory that everyone who writes comics desires to, at one point or another, write like Stan Lee.
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