For 20 years, author Alex Segura has dreamed up writing a novel that would also feature comic book art.
“When I started thinking about this comic book novel, I was like, ‘Can we just do comic book sequences inside the novel and have those things be in conversation with each other?'” says Segura, who in addition to writing books and comics, is an executive at Oni Press, the Portland-based comic book publisher.centers on Carmen Valdez, an assistant at a struggling comic book company.
Segura enlisted artist Sandy Jarrell and letterer Taylor Esposito to bring the fictional comic to life with panels published within the book. “We had a nice shorthand. I could say, ‘This scene, should evoke Frank Miller but not be you copying Frank Miller,'” recalls Segura of working with Jarrell. “Let’s give a sense that this could have happened in the ’70s, without trying to copy somebody’s style.”
Segura, who has worked at DC and Archie, has made a career in comics at a time when those characters dominate pop culture. But the pop culture landscape depicted in“I wanted to do it in the ’70s, to really contrast the comic book world we’re in today. We have amovies. Fans know who the Guardians of the Galaxy are,” says Segura. “In the ’70s, comics were kind of a dying industry. People thought it was just a fading thing.
Segura steeped himself in comics history, but notes the characters are not based on specific comic book figures of the era, though some are amalgamations. He worked with editor Zachary Wagman, who encouraged the writer to pull back just slightly on the comic culture references.interview, or something from the, that I thought was a blast, but he very wisely said, ‘Look, this is something you want for a general audience. It’s not just for the diehards,'” recalls Segura.
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