It’s Tuesday, which for the moment seems to mean Interviewing Leather! It’s Gay Talese, only not!
Interviewing Leather, Part Four
July 17th, 2007 — Justice Wing, Serial, Superhero
Interviewing Leather, Part Three
July 10th, 2007 — Justice Wing, Serial, Superhero
And here we are, a random Tuesday, and right now that means it’s time to Interview Leather. I’d say more, but I’m not feeling terribly good, so have a cut block and see you tomorrow for Storytelling.
Interviewing Leather, Part Two
July 3rd, 2007 — Justice Wing, Serial, Superhero
It’s another random day, and so here’s part two of the faux-Rolling Stone article “Interviewing Leather. You can also read part one if you like.
I make reference in this one to a “henching union.” There’s a degree to which that name checks Brad Guigar’s Evil, Inc. That’s okay with me because Guigar’s fantastic, and I’m not stealing anything by name.
One area where this is different, though, is that “Interviewing Leather” isn’t really satire. It’s light, mind. But it’s not sending up the superheroic conventions. That’s something I sometimes thing today’s comic book writers need to understand. You don’t have to be dark, or morbid, or ultra serious to write a comic book that’s not satire, and you don’t have to be denigrating the form, satirizing the form or parodying the form to write a “light” comic.
On Call
June 28th, 2007 — Humor, Justice Wing, Short Story, Superhero
Random day #2! Whoo hoo! Happy Thursday.
This is a story I actually submitted to… hrm. Many, many magazines, back in the late nineties. Most were simply uninterested. One, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, was interested — or so the rejection letter claimed — but they’d bought a story with almost the same premise less than three weeks before. (A story I now assume was written by Mike Resnick, as I’ve seen reference to a story of his from that era that sounds a lot like this one.)
I’ve thought about updating it (and correcting a few dumb medical errors) and resubmitting it places, but meh.
Technically, this would be a Justice Wing story, though it’s as much Superguy as anything else.
Enjoy “On Call.”
Interviewing Leather, Part One
June 26th, 2007 — Justice Wing, Serial, Superhero
Welcome to the first “Random” day on the schedule. Today we have part one of a cheerful short story entitled “Interviewing Leather.”
Some artists have blue periods. Some poets have sonnet sequences. I? Write stories about superheroes. It’s this thing I do. And this one is relatively high concept, though God knows where I could sell it. The basic idea is “what if Rolling Stone sent a reporter to interview a B-list supervillain.”
This is part one because the story isn’t finished, and maybe when I run out of parts I’ll finish it. We’ll see. I don’t promise a regular update schedule, though.
You’ll notice (if you care) that the categories include ‘Justice Wing.’ I’ve been building up a self-contained world I can write superheroesque stories in for some time. Apparently for my own amusement, because Kavalier and Clay aside there isn’t exactly a burgeoning market for these things. Damn Superguy for scarring me.
Some of the language isn’t all that kid-friendly. But then, I do have a mature readers warning on the site. Enjoy!
