{"id":2020,"date":"2012-11-16T21:38:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2012-11-16T21:39:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T21:39:22","slug":"he-aint-no-judas-a-conversation-with-walter-simonson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/11\/16\/he-aint-no-judas-a-conversation-with-walter-simonson\/","title":{"rendered":"He Ain’t No Judas: My Conversation with Walter Simonson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For my latest Nexus Graphica column<\/a> over at SF Site, I was lucky enough to interview the legendary Walter Simonson about his new graphic novel\u00a0The Judas Coin<\/em><\/a> as well as other things\u00a0artistic.<\/p>\n

What was the impetus for\u00a0The Judas Coin<\/strong>?<\/span><\/p>\n

Back when I was working on Michael Moorcock’s\u00a0Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer<\/em><\/strong>, Mark Chiarello at DC approached me and asked me about contributing to a new comic he was going to be editing for DC. It was called\u00a0SOLO<\/em><\/strong>. Each issue was going to be written and drawn by a single writer\/artist. The book was to be a 44 page comic of short stories, at least one of which was to be about a DC character. Otherwise, it was wide open. I was delighted to be asked. I started thinking about what I might do, and eventually had the idea for an anthology of short stories, threaded together by one of the coins Judas was paid to betray Christ. I worked out the plots for each of the stories, but in the end, the Elric book took me longer to do than I’d thought — no surprise there — and by the time I’d completed it,\u00a0SOLO<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0had run 12 issues and was done. I still liked my idea for the comic, so I spoke to Dan Didio at DC about the anthology. He liked the idea, and suggested I find an editor and write up a proposal for a 96-page hardcover. That worked out, but Mark was the guy whose initial approach sparked the book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out\u00a0the entire interview<\/a> over at SF Site.<\/p>\n

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For my latest Nexus Graphica column over at SF Site, I was lucky enough to interview the legendary Walter Simonson about his new graphic novel\u00a0The Judas Coin as well as other things\u00a0artistic. What was the impetus for\u00a0The Judas Coin? Back … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n