- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (8 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1840234229
- ISBN-13: 978-1840234220
- Product Dimensions: 14.9 x 2 x 23 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,199,758 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Essex Chronicles, Thursday 29 July, 2004: " Fans of the comic book Spidey will definitely want to pick up Comics Creators, a fascinating study of the creative process involved in telling the web-slinger's adventures over the last 40 years." The List 8-22 July 2004, review by Dave Martin: " Full of insights which will delight..."
The List Magazine, 8-22 July 2004, review by Dave Martin
"Full of insights which will delight obsessives...this is a timely and entertaining release."
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Fantastic survey of classic comics, 17 Aug 2004
By J. Nicholas Dirga "Nik" - Published on Amazon U.S.
This review is from: Comics Creators on Spider-Man (Paperback)
I'm a big web-spinning Spider-Man fanboy, no doubt about it. And to that geek, this book rocks hard. It's a 200-page series of interviews with some of the biggest creators of Spider-Man comic books over the past 40 years, from Stan Lee to Todd McFarlane to Brian Bendis. And it's just packed full of trivia, insight and critiques. I really get into these "behind the scenes" comic tomes, and this one's a winner. There's great comments by Lee on the creation of Spidey, as well as really thorough interviews with the writers I grew up on -- Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, and the underrated Roger Stern, who for my money wrote the best Spider-Man stories of all in the mid-1980s. We learn what went on behind the scenes with some classic stories and get each writer and artist's thoughts on what makes Spidey tick.
I particularly enjoyed how "Comic Creators" isn't some glossy tribute that overlooked the bad. It's compiled and the interviews are conducted by longtime "Spidey" writer Tom DeFalco, who comes at the subject with an insider's eye. Creators are pretty free with thoughts here on stories that didn't work, and the late 1990s nadir for Spider-Man comics, the bloated, bleak "Clone saga" and "Maximum Carnage" eras, come in for a well-deserved beating. Everyone involved seems to blame the disaster on Marvel editorial dictates. For instance, David Micheline, writer of "Amazing Spider-Man" at the time when there was a rather lousy storyline involving the possible return of Peter Parker's long-dead parents, reveals that he was forced to bring them back by an editor who apparently didn't even know how to end the storyline himself. The book does a good job showing how Spidey's appeal has kept up through the years, and gives you an insight into the creative process.
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