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
character metaphor
The metaphor is the story, not the character.
metaphor
The metaphors exist for the stories.
character different metaphor
The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.
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.
gotten playing time universes
Between 'Avengers,' 'JLA/Avengers,' and 'Trinity,' I've gotten down and dirty in the big universes and had a hell of a time playing in those sandboxes.
days dc love stuff
I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like 'Saga,' 'Fatale,' 'Hellboy,' and 'Courtney Crumrin.'
stories varied
Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.
approach great helps people principle readers stories theme
Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it's an organizing principle that helps us write a story that has some weight; it's not something that all readers have to care about.
break characters crowded hard similar spotlight whatever
Marvel's got a crowded universe, and there are already so many characters hogging the spotlight that it's hard to break through that. First off, whatever character you're creating, odds are, there's already someone similar in one way or another.
both guy half volume wrote
I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City Volume 2 #1,' which was about a guy who had two daughters. In both cases, about a year and a half or two years apart. And then after that, I had two daughters, about a year and a half or two years apart.
comics discovered five job life pages people realized spent stumbling suck whether wrote
When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it.' In stumbling into comics that way, I discovered that I loved the form.
characters matter
That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.
attitude costume name reader role sort
You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what they're like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.
cosmic generic hurt mean motivated poorly powers work
The most fascinating powers don't mean a thing if the guy's poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won't hurt a well-motivated character. Personality and motivation are what make Magneto, Magneto and not Cosmic Boy. The powers work for him, but it's his motivation that makes him the character he is.