Kirkbride, Si Spurrier, Michel Fiffe, Christopher Sebela, Curt Pires, Alison Sampson, Marissa Louise, Tula Lotay, John Lees, Ryan K. Who do you consider to be inspirational creators in your field (classic and modern)?įor so many reasons Francois Schuiten, Benoit Peeters, Grant Morrison, Kelly Sue Deconnick, Steve Gerber, Alan Moore, Joe Keatinge, Leila Del Duca, Adam P.

In my experience? The golden hour when neither you nor the baby is screaming. I really envy writers who approach their scripts like engineers. I think I have pretty good ideas by and large, but the spine’s a little crooked sometimes. What’s the one thing you wish you could improve about your work? I always make it clear upfront that my scripts are napkin notes rather than architectural plans, you know?Ī page from Turncoat, Alex’s Boom series with Artyom Trakhanov If I insisted on slavish fidelity to the script then my books would be 22 pages of head shots. I finish work and I have to switch gears pretty much immediately, so it’s just a case of running the faucet until the stream of conceptual gunk turns clear.įull script with room for interpretation. I was outlining one of my clever-clever poststructuralist pillow fart ideas to Andy Diggle a few years back and he hushed me, put his hand on my shoulder and said “Alex, just tell me a fucking story.” What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? Anything else and John Williams suits me fine. If I’m writing drama then it’ll be James Horner’s score for House Of Sand And Fog or Howard Shore’s score for Dead Ringers. It’s pretty monastic, albeit with a few more empty pizza boxes. I wake up in there, do my day job and then write comics in the evening. My workspace is also my bedroom, so I have zero sleep hygiene. The Assassin’s Creed comic for Titan and a bunch of inchoate projects that will hopefully see the light of day. What current projects are you working on? Up first is Alex Paknadel, a dear friend of Loser City who broke out last year with his Boom series Arcadia and its follow-up Turncoat and will soon be seen on Titan’s Assassin’s Creed adaptation. This week Dan spoke to two people who are very close to us at Loser City (one of whom co-publishes our site, even). Questionable Comics is a series where Dan Hill surveys professionals from every corner of the comics industry about their methods and experience.

Assassin's Creed by Alex Paknadel