10 Questions with Darwyn Cooke

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Darwyn Cooke is an Eisner Award-winning comic book writer, artist, cartoonist and animator, best known for his work on the comic books Catwoman, DC: The New Frontier and the one-shot crossover Batman/The Spirit

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10 for the Pros

Darwyn Cooke – Artist/Writer/Cartoonist/Animator

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1. What comic (character) would you love to have total creativity control over?  And why?

(DC) Charlie Brown. I want him to kick that football.

2. If you could have 1 superpower, what would it be?

(DC) Invisibility.

3. Do you have a routine that you follow before or during work?

(DC) I cry constantly.

4. Who is your favorite creator to work with?

(DC) J. Bone.

5. In your opinion, do you feel that the movie industry is doing a good job with the Comic Book movies?

(DC) Yes.

6. What comic book hero/villain do you want to see on screen?

(DC) Deadman.

7. “If I wasn’t in the comic book industry, I would be working….”?

(DC) At Walmart in the stationery dept.

8. What advice could you give a creator trying to break into the industry?

(DC) Use the web! Print is dead.

9. “My Best investment in life was……”

(DC) My 1960 Cadillac.

10. Have anything you’d like to plug?

(DC) Jimmy Palmiotti.

Bonus Questions!

Who were your influences breaking into the Industry?

(DC) Miller, Mignola, Neal Adams, Al Toth.

Digital or Paper?

(DC) Dig.