Kurt Busiek
Kurt Busiek
Kurt Busiek is an American comic book writer known. His work include the Marvels limited series, his own title Astro City, and a four-year run on Avengers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComic Book Author
Date of Birth16 September 1960
CountryUnited States of America
metaphor
The metaphors exist for the stories.
simple years wind
It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.
real reflection thinking
Maybe I had a 'secret identity,' but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as 'me.' The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.
character different metaphor
The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.
party views tools
I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.
drama superhero larger-than-life
I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.
stories telling-stories
I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.
character done metaphor
If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it.
character names superhero
At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.
people care littles
Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldnt like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.
attitude character play
Youve got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what theyre like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.
writing intimidating novel
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.
should novel stills
When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
thinking humanity faces
I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.