A Pulp Writer At Heart

I was recently interviewed by the crew at Turbo Pit Fighter.

The topic was nominally BadAxe -- a comic that I wrote in 1989, and that for reasons as wonderful as they are mysterious, has recently been rediscovered by a couple different corners of the Internet. This Hourglass Blog focuses primarily on crime fiction and my attempts to write it, but I'm promoting this comics interview for a couple reasons.

First, it's a flattering interview, and it's always nice to have my work recognized, be it comics or prose. I still have some Longbox Graveyard readers here, and this is right in their wheelhouse.

Second, the interview was an opportunity for me to articulate something I've long held true -- that I'm a pulp writer at heart. Much of the interview circles around how I conceived and created BadAxe, giving me a chance to talk about my pulp fiction roots, and my love of fiction formulas. BadAxe was a Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs pastiche, but it was also a celebration of Joseph Campbell's Hero With A Thousand Faces, which I melded with Lester Dent's Doc Savage formula to drive not only that project but much of my comics work.

I hope you enjoy the interview, and thanks to Kurt and Jake for having me on. Please check out the Turbo Pit Fighter channel when you are over there, throw them a like, and tell them I sent you in the comments.

And if you wish to run down a copy of BadAxe, you can find it at MyComicShop.com, or you can pick up the recent reprint in issues 6-8 of Cirsova magazine. You can also find the book on certain pirate sites, but I'll leave it to you if you want to search that up or not ...