Yay for Steve Englehart!
Oct. 11th, 2005 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jkcarrier
Speaking of superheroes then vs. superheroes now, here's an interesting chat transcript featuring Steve Englehart, the great writer who got his start in the '70s and was a big influence on young JKC:
I got no resistance to anything from Marvel in the '70s. The editorial theory was "we're giving you these books. If you can make them sell and meet your deadlines, you can keep doing them." That was it. This is why it was so great then. We were encouraged to be as creative as possible, so long as people kept buying-- and really, why should it be any other way?
Read the whole thing here:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=6024
I got no resistance to anything from Marvel in the '70s. The editorial theory was "we're giving you these books. If you can make them sell and meet your deadlines, you can keep doing them." That was it. This is why it was so great then. We were encouraged to be as creative as possible, so long as people kept buying-- and really, why should it be any other way?
Read the whole thing here:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=6024
