Matt Fraction's Blog, page 170
August 24, 2016
Thoughts about the racial discrimination in Portland? Good news on the horizon? The Atlantic ran a really interesting/sad article about the city and state. I'm from Oregon but now live in TX. Have been thinking of moving back. Just wondering.
we live in a place that had sundown laws on the books until the thirties. 80% of the state’s black population lives *in portland* and portland is so white it’s see-through. we’re super-gay (second in the nation!) but super-white (tenth in the nation!) and i wish things were different. i wish i was raising my children in a place that looks like the world we live in. kel and i are starting to work with the urban league in hopes of contributing positively towards that outcome. for now the town a...
I really, really loved your run on "The Defenders", as well as the concept. With it having to wrap up early, how close to the original ending. Will we ever see a pitch document for it?
well, it was close and it was far. the gist was the same only instead of getting there in four years or whatever we got there in twelve issues. the punchline was always the same but the joke was way shorter. no, there’ll never be a pitch document presented for it but, sooner or later, i’ll cover it in THE ME DECADE stuff.
Just finished your Hawkeye comics. Absolutely incredible. I'm starting college in a few weeks and intend on going into a film program there. Hopefully for screenwriting. But reading Hawkeye (especially #19) made me realize that comics are an incredible med
Well, let’s see. Reading a lot. Writing a lot. Thinking about comics way too much. They are, like a garage for a garage band, an incredibly efficient and relatively inexpensive workshop to explore. i tried making them, read them, thought about them, tore‘em up, made more, repeat. i drew my own, i found talented artists who, like me, wanted to make these things but hadn’t before, I talked a lot of shit, I made friends, I read and thought and wrote like a Victorian shut-in.
just finished blackhawk book one blood and iron by chaykin and I have no idea what's going on and I don't like anybody in the book and I don't know how chaykin's art can be both charismatic and cold somehow and now I'm going to add a question mark at the e
i can hear your uptalk. also“i have no idea what’s going on and i don’t like anybody in the book” is Peak Chaykin, i think.
August 23, 2016
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