chadpratch
06-21-2006, 08:43 PM
Hello Tony
My name is Chad I am 23 and from Kelowna BC Canada. I got back to reading comics again five years ago which is funny I say that because I wouldn’t give my earlier years a real respect as too whether I was really reading comics or just looking at the great art work of Jim Lee and Todd Mcfarlane. A friend of my fathers had a old comic book colletion from when he was a teenager. Some way or another I saw it and asked him if I could look at some of them. He didn’t want them anymore so he just gave his collection to me. Once I was jacked back in, I began my comic book reading with the likes of Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin’s Silver Surfer run and on word with a lot more of Jim’s stuff (Dreadstar, Infinity Gauntlet, ect). Then Ron Marz, then Peter David, then Mark Waid, Then Frank Miller, Then Neil ect, ect … Yeah comics really hit a cord in my creative imagination. I always had a problem with reading while I was growing up do to my Dyslexia so comics really fit when it came to helping my problems reading. Creativity has come naturally to me so the writing with the artwork fit like a glove.
I just finished my second year at the University of British Columbia Fine Arts program and am moving on to Emily Carr. I have to say if it wasn’t for comics I don’t think I would be in University right now. I took a creative writing course last semester, definitely not stopping that. Creative writing is such a great way to express your self. Going to try to push that envelope as for as I can (Fingers crossed).
Alright I maybe getting a little overboard with the whole history of me, comics and what I’m doing now with my life bit but I do have to say for the last 5 years my imaginational boundaries have been pushed far past what I thought possible with comics.
I don’t exactly know why I am saying all this on your internet comic book forum. Maybe it’s because of my passion for the way comics are used to tell stories. I haven’t seen a better way of story telling. Don’t get me wrong I still read novels, short stories and poetry but comics just pushes it to the next level (when done right). So yeah I thought this would be a great place to spill a fat letter.
Now I don’t want to sound like I’m kissing ass or inflating your head more then it needs to be but your writing was and still is the best I have yet to see. Now I have to confess I still haven’t picked up Alan Moore’s stuff yet and I have been told he’s like the Michael Jordan of comic book writing. I just want you to know that this may sound messed up but I always save the best comics of the month for last to read and every since Negation yours surprisingly never failed to be on the bottom of the stack.
This is my story of how I started reading your stuff.
One day as I was hoping the internet looking at the new DC/Marvel comics coming out that month I thought I would give this Crossgen thing a try. I saw A cover done by Paul Pelletier I think it was issue 20 or something around there I don’t remember but man wow I was hooked. I started hunting for all the Negation I could get after that and yeah I got it all. The shocks, the universe, the Character development and personalities, man it was just to much. I didn’t know comics could be that good. I thought Jim Starlins Dreadstar was the limit. Now I could go on and on about Nagation and Exiles and my favorite issues but I don’t have all the time in the world. So I’ll end this quick and conclusive.
I really enjoy reading your comics I want to read more and learn more about your technique as a writer. I have only read Negation and Exiles what else have you written that I can hunt for? Could you write like a checklist of your work? Also what inspires you to start writing? What I mean to say is what technique or if any, do you use to get started with an idea?
Thanks for your time.
My name is Chad I am 23 and from Kelowna BC Canada. I got back to reading comics again five years ago which is funny I say that because I wouldn’t give my earlier years a real respect as too whether I was really reading comics or just looking at the great art work of Jim Lee and Todd Mcfarlane. A friend of my fathers had a old comic book colletion from when he was a teenager. Some way or another I saw it and asked him if I could look at some of them. He didn’t want them anymore so he just gave his collection to me. Once I was jacked back in, I began my comic book reading with the likes of Steve Englehart and Jim Starlin’s Silver Surfer run and on word with a lot more of Jim’s stuff (Dreadstar, Infinity Gauntlet, ect). Then Ron Marz, then Peter David, then Mark Waid, Then Frank Miller, Then Neil ect, ect … Yeah comics really hit a cord in my creative imagination. I always had a problem with reading while I was growing up do to my Dyslexia so comics really fit when it came to helping my problems reading. Creativity has come naturally to me so the writing with the artwork fit like a glove.
I just finished my second year at the University of British Columbia Fine Arts program and am moving on to Emily Carr. I have to say if it wasn’t for comics I don’t think I would be in University right now. I took a creative writing course last semester, definitely not stopping that. Creative writing is such a great way to express your self. Going to try to push that envelope as for as I can (Fingers crossed).
Alright I maybe getting a little overboard with the whole history of me, comics and what I’m doing now with my life bit but I do have to say for the last 5 years my imaginational boundaries have been pushed far past what I thought possible with comics.
I don’t exactly know why I am saying all this on your internet comic book forum. Maybe it’s because of my passion for the way comics are used to tell stories. I haven’t seen a better way of story telling. Don’t get me wrong I still read novels, short stories and poetry but comics just pushes it to the next level (when done right). So yeah I thought this would be a great place to spill a fat letter.
Now I don’t want to sound like I’m kissing ass or inflating your head more then it needs to be but your writing was and still is the best I have yet to see. Now I have to confess I still haven’t picked up Alan Moore’s stuff yet and I have been told he’s like the Michael Jordan of comic book writing. I just want you to know that this may sound messed up but I always save the best comics of the month for last to read and every since Negation yours surprisingly never failed to be on the bottom of the stack.
This is my story of how I started reading your stuff.
One day as I was hoping the internet looking at the new DC/Marvel comics coming out that month I thought I would give this Crossgen thing a try. I saw A cover done by Paul Pelletier I think it was issue 20 or something around there I don’t remember but man wow I was hooked. I started hunting for all the Negation I could get after that and yeah I got it all. The shocks, the universe, the Character development and personalities, man it was just to much. I didn’t know comics could be that good. I thought Jim Starlins Dreadstar was the limit. Now I could go on and on about Nagation and Exiles and my favorite issues but I don’t have all the time in the world. So I’ll end this quick and conclusive.
I really enjoy reading your comics I want to read more and learn more about your technique as a writer. I have only read Negation and Exiles what else have you written that I can hunt for? Could you write like a checklist of your work? Also what inspires you to start writing? What I mean to say is what technique or if any, do you use to get started with an idea?
Thanks for your time.