Part two of our comics journalism day is an interview I did for Comic Book Resources with Rick Remender on him starting his run on The All-New Atom and joining Matt Fraction on Punisher: War Journal.
For fans of both of your books, the idea of you and Matt Fraction working together on “Punisher: War Journal” must sound like more fun than Frank Castle has ever had. What’s it like working with Fraction and Howard Chaykin and what do you guys have going on in the title?
It is a dream job. Matt and I are both fans of watching snuff films on the internet together late at night when our wives sleep in our cold, cold beds. We like the ones where horses kill men the best. So it was only a matter of time before we made comical books together. I was concerned that Howard wouldn’t fit into our particular interest group but Matt put us all on the phone where my fears were alleviated. Bless his heart, Chaykin is a freak as well. I’ve always been a huge fan of his art and I knew I loved him as a man when he let Matt and I listen to him watching “2 girls 1 cup.” Long live Howard Chaykin.
You can read the rest of the article here.
And yes, if you clicked on it you may have noticed that it says Staff Writer. As in this situation is one of the many wonderful things I wrote about before my hard drive went into rigor mortis.
Now for the Oscar speech: I want to first thank Andy Khouri for recommending me for the job, you have no idea how enthused I am to be writing for this exceptionally run comic book news website. And secondly thanks to the people who first gave me a shot writing about comics, Broken Frontier, because I wouldn’t have been able to do this if I didn’t start doing it there first. Not that I’m leaving anyway, but I can’t really say because I’m unsure of how the whole thing–”thing,” being writing for two websites–works. There are a lot of people who do it like Ian Brill and Laura Hudson.
