Len Wein
Len Wein
Len Weinis an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men. Additionally, he was the editor for writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons' influential DC miniseries Watchmen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComic Book Artist
Date of Birth12 June 1948
CountryUnited States of America
lenses stories way
Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
writing wanted audience
I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.
best-effort lenses judgment
I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.
lenses textbooks stories
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
art school college
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
writing views way
I'm still a fanboy geek. I always will be. In many ways, if my work still resonates with the audience, it's because I'm still writing from the point of view of the fan, so I'm geeked out constantly.
giving-up writing done
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
teacher art dad
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
character gay thinking
I think every time you take a female character, a black character, a Hispanic character, a gay character, and make that the point of the character, you are minimalizing the character,
artist people age
There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.
dad book kids
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
nature new-york character
I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
editors years clue
I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.
book worry directors
The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."