Charles, Marguerite Bennett, Ray Fawkes, Emi Lennox, Kurtis Weibe
Who do you write for? Charles - write for myself - challenge self, say something about who he is. MG - catharsis, discover feelings/opinions etc. Fawkes - driving force that he can't identify. Hope his writing will connect, writes stuff mostly for himself. Kurtis - is there's something that he wants to read that isn't out there, he wants to write it. Women aren't well represented in fantasy, so wanted to do something outside the paradigm. MB - never a time while working in comics that social media didn't effect who she spoke to etc. - found people on twitter (from mad max fanart) to work on bombshells with. Social media - both good and bad. MM - 2 dif writers in comics - just put it out there, or 'stand in front and shout about it'.
Charles - like twitter, easy to write something wrong in 140 characters - career could be completely over from it. Good as an outreach tool rather than for interaction. Twitter lets put self out there in a way that feels relatable, but also letting work speak for self. Kurtis - set up 15 issues of Rat Queen - change a lot after fans so invested a lot of cosplay - don't want to mess with those most popular characters. Marvel/DC fans - can be nasty or supportive but better with creator owned comics - less intimidating. Charles - in a way, M/DC 'handing out pellets' - doing what the fans want? Emi - dif sort of audience from rest of panel - writes about life so doesn't take influence from readers/audience. Writing for self, documenting life so being honest, worried about being judged from auto-bio comic, with social media but 'gotta do what you gotta do'. Take most popular chars from comics - how to plot a course from what they're expecting.
Charles - killed Wolverine - so many ways the story could have been wrong. Needed to tell a story based on what he felt was right. His biggest book by far. Hoping fans would say he did it right. Fawkes - many fans liked the book but treated it like a puzzle - how is he coming back? Kurtis - came into comics a lot later on. Warren Ellis was one of his biggest influences. Emi - influenced by Craig Thompson. Fawkes - Alan Moore's superhero books made him want to write comics. Was a writer before a comic writer. Mentorwise - learned loads by working with a mentor. Margueritte - Scott Snyder was her professor - wanted to be a writer/comics writer. They kept in touch and he reach out and asked about writing a comic together before writing on own. Brian Michael Bendis message board had a lot of writers talking including BMB popping in himself and talking. 'Pluona' series Jeff Lemire - been a friend for a while - wanted to help her write stuff, not just auto-bio which is what she wanted.
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