Direct Creativity: The Creators who Inspired the Creators
By Paul Kupperberg (www.PaulKupperberg.net)
Published by Crazy 8 Press (www.crazy8press.com)
Kickstarter Live Date: February 6, 2024, at 12:01 am (ET)
Duration of Kickstarter: 21 days
Publication Date: April 2024
Kickstarter Campaign Link: https://kck.st/3ugsnCr
Veteran DC Comics and Archie Comics writer and editor Paul Kupperberg (Superman, Supergirl, The Doom Patrol, Peacemaker, Vigilante, Life with Archie) announces the launch of the Kickstarter Campaign for his new Crazy 8 Press book release, Direct Creativity: The Creators who Inspired the Creators.
Direct Creativity is a collection of new one-on-one talks with 18 comic book creators about the people, comics, books, movies, and television that sparked and inspired them and drove them to create. The line-up of talent represented in Direct Creativity includes writers and artists whose work spans the 1960s to the current day, including D.G. Chichester, Mike Collins, Gerry Conway, Mike DeCarlo, J.M. DeMatteis, Dan DiDio, Marc Guggenheim, Joe Illidge, Barbara Kaalberg, Tom King, Mark Millar, Mindy Newell, Mike Avon Oeming, Chuck Patton, Christopher J. Priest, Rick Stasi, Roy Thomas, and Mark Waid.
In his introduction to Direct Creativity, 13th Dimension.com publisher Dan Greenfield notes, “Of the dozens of conversations Paul has recorded for posterity in these books, one thing stands out: They are almost all exactly the same, but also wildly different — and it’s those diverging details that make this trilogy of interviews impossible to put down.”
“Almost every one of the creators tell of discovering comics early and having their passions ignited for the medium,” said Kupperberg, “but some took longer than others to achieve, or even recognize, their goal. Christopher Priest was interning at Marvel Comics at 17. Mindy Newell was a 30-year old working nurse with a young child when she decided, on a whim, to try out for DC Comics’ New Talent Showcase program. Artist Denys Cowan was interning for Rich Buckler at 14 years old. Writer Tom King spent seven years as a CIA counterintelligence agent before pursuing a career in comics. But they all shared a single minded determination to break into their chosen profession, come hell or high water.”
The Kickstarter campaigns offers signed copies of Direct Creativity: The Creators who Inspired the Creators paperback, either by itself or with a PDF e-copy, or in combination with signed copies of one, two, or all three of my previously published books about comics and PDF e-copies: Direct Comments: Comic Book Creators in their Own Words, Direct Conversations: Talks With Fellow DC Comics Bronze Age Creators, and Paul Kupperberg’s Illustrated Guide to Writing Comics.
“I know backers have come to expect stretch goals and elaborate rewards in their Kickstarter campaigns,” Kupperberg said, “but as I learned from the Direct Conversations Kickstarter, readers don’t need a lot of frills to want to read a book of conversations with creators about their lives and careers in comics.”
The 21-day Kickstarter campaign launches February 6, 2024 at 12:01 AM (ET).
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