STEVE NILES
The creator of 30 DAYS OF NIGHT and CRIMINAL MACABRE is currently working on IDW’s FRANKENSTEIN: ALIVE, ALIVE!, his fourth project with the legendary Bernie Wrightson, as well as several new tales in Cal McDonald’s CRIMINAL MACABRE universe. In this first part of our three-part interview, Niles shares his thoughts on working with Wrightson, DC Comics’ New 52, and his reputation as an indie horror writer in the comics industry.
Famous Monsters. So please, gush about Bernie Wrightson, because I’m going to, if you don’t. [laughs]
Steve Niles. The amazing part about this whole Frankenstein project is that his FRANKENSTEIN is literally something I read as a kid. I still have the Marvel edition of the book that came out years ago, and now I’m all grown up and I’m working on the sequel with him. Obviously every shot in that first book is beautiful, but I get amazed by the shots of the bookshelves. Really simple things like that. And I had a really funny thing with his 30 DAYS OF NIGHT cover, because he
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brought it over, and it’s this really cool image of three vampires charging at you, going past a fence…
FM. I remember seeing that.
SN. Yeah, and the first thing out of my mouth was, “Oh my god, the fence is beautiful!” I didn’t even acknowledge the vampires—the fence was so nice! It looked like wood. He is so good with textures. It’s unbelievable. And with this, the way we’re doing it is very different. I’m not writing a full script for him, because I don’t want to restrain him at all. So we sit down and talk, and we plan and we sketch and figure out the order of things, and then he roughts it
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