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We picked up all the back issues of Danny Fingeroth's Write Now at Wondercon. The first issue has interviews with Bendis, Stan Lee, Mark Bagley, Joe Quesada, Tom DeFalco and J.M. DeMatteis.

The first issue very much showed off Fingeroth's belief that comics "these days" (in 2002) are aimed too much toward adults, and are written too much as if they were movies. His questions often revolve around "why don't we write for kids" in this issue. You also see his love for the pamphlet form of comic book, which I have been converted away from at this point. As Littlestar points out, trades just shelve better, are easier to walk around with -- and, notably, are much more amenable for book store sales, which is critical.

Notes in the extended.

It's been a while since I read the second issue of Danny Fingeroth's Write Now!, but I hadn't yet put up a review. I'm in the middle of reading issue #3, which I like a lot so far.

This issue has some great interviews with creators from those odd, overlapping fields of comics, animation and genre work.

Notes in the extended.