I think Marvel is taking whatever steps it feels appropriate to respond. I think that DC’s revamping of their entire line conceptually has brought them a measure of strong success this year.
It’s a totally different experience, and I’m getting used to being on the outside looking in and on the inside looking out.Īs far as the industry is concerned, it’s clearly in a period of evolution. That is part of what’s enabled me to do a lot more prose. Given that you have a little distance from the day-to-day of working in comics, what are your thoughts about the comics industry and medium as a whole?Ĭhris Claremont: This is the first time in 40 years that I haven’t written a line of comics work in a year. The novel making the rounds now is a young-adult adventure, and the novel on my desk right now that I’m stitching together for my agent is much more of a mystery/suspense.Ĭhris Arrant: Even if you’re working outside of comics currently, you’ll always be associated with the medium. They’re all in different genres with different emphasis. And these aren’t connected to First Flight either.
This year’s the first time I’ve been able to do things that are all totally mine and all totally different.Ĭhris Arrant: Are these sequels to your Willow novels or perhaps the First Flight novels you did a few years back?Ĭhris Claremont: No, the Willow books are George Lucas’ the fate of that is up to him. I’m working on another novel that’ll hopefully be in a position to start sharing with publishers soon as well. What are you planning for 2012?Ĭhris Claremont: Well, I’ve got a prose novel making the rounds to potential publishers, and a short story in Simon & Schuster’s Under The Moons of Mars: New Adventures of Barsoom anthology. In a far-ranging discussion with the London-born writer, we talked about the modern comics movie blockbuster, digital comics, the seduction of work-for-hire and news about his own creator-owned comics.Ĭhris Arrant: 2011 was a different kind of year for you and for fans of your work, Chris. Although he's turned his focus to prose novels for the time being, Claremont remains in tune with developments in the comic industry that he worked in for so many years.
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