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SFX is a monthly published SF magazine, and this month it carries an interview with Frank Miller on DK2, carried out by Joel Meadows. I urge you all to but this magazine, since it is generally pretty good, and I don't intend to reproduce the entire interview since that isn't fair on Mr Meadows or on the editorila staff of SFX.
However, the following appears in the body of the interview, on being asked about the three 80-page squarebound format for DK2
" The work dictated the format. It was my idea. DC has been very agreeable. Gee whiz, do you think they just called me up and told me the page count ? "
On the first DK being published as a 48 page graphic novel
" It was the first of what has become several attempts by me to get past the format of the 32 page pamphlet, which I'm certain is one of the major dumb things we do that keeps us from developing as swiftly as we should, as a story form and as a business. The pamphlet made sense when it cost 10 or 12 cents. But two or three bucks ? "
So there you go, next time you feel you're being ripped off paying for a " prestige format " book that turns out to be a major waste of time or money just remember, you're helping the medium grow and adapt both as an art form, and as a business. Frank says so.
Now, I paid somewhere in the region of six or seven quid for my copy of DK2 ( It was part of a bulk pre-Xmas buy, so forgive me if I'm slightly in error ) and I was none too impressed by that price. When I read it, I was even less happy. Nevertheless, I presumed that it was DCs attempt to squeeze the pennies out of me . Now, I find that it's Mr Millar himself whose responsible. That rather annoys me.
Ther are more eye openers in the interview, but I can safely make those the subject of your own investigation.  |
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