Academically in the United States comics only now are beginning to get some respect as literature and as an art. So I I could develop my skills but…I don’t know, it was a long time ago, maybe they have a Comic Book Writing Course now, I doubt it. It was a little…The best thing I can say about going to a school like that is that they created an environment where I had nothing to do but write and was expected nothing to do but write. So when I was there, you know, I worked on screenplays, short stories, stage plays, novels, technical writing, etc. The differences being that they claimed that you will able to write in any form. The program in the USC is MPW (Master of Proffesional Writing). Greg Rucka: In the US there’s a degree that’s called MFA (Master of Fine Arts) and that degree is offered in writing. In university settings, did they encourage you to try different media and formats, or did they started from a more traditional approach of writing? ZN: During your stay at the University of Southern California you did a master in writing. I wrote several novels before I had the opportunity to come back in the comics.
And finding people who have the ability and the inclination to do that work for free it’s very difficult so I ended up writing novels.
And under no circumstances should be allowed to.
Greg Rucka.- I started reading comics in college, I had a friend and we wanted to do a comic together and I wrote four issues of this comic and he drew one issue and said “I am not doing this anymore” And then, you know, I…there’s no point in writing comics if you can’t draw them or if you don’t have somebody else you can. But, do you remember the first time you thought about doing it as a comic? In several interviews you point your true calling is to tell stories, regardless of the medium in which they are published. Zona Negativa (ZN).- On your website you comment how your first recognition as a writer came at 10 years old, when you won a contest for short stories.
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