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Kurt Busiek
American
Writer
Born:
Sep 16
,
1960
Character
Get
Got
Love
People
You
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I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.
Kurt Busiek
Best
Humanity
Face
Think
Tend
Study
Learn
Explore
I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.
Kurt Busiek
Drama
Superheroes
Like
Stirring
Aspect
I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.
Kurt Busiek
Love
Telling
Writer
Just
Stories
Between 'Avengers,' 'JLA/Avengers,' and 'Trinity,' I've gotten down and dirty in the big universes and had a hell of a time playing in those sandboxes.
Kurt Busiek
Time
Big
Hell
Down
Those
Trinity
Dirty
Had
Between
Gotten
Avengers
Playing
Universes
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.
Kurt Busiek
Writing
Few
Intimidating
Seemed
More
Writer
Never
Idea
Got
Than
Wanted
Movies
Really
Pages
Novels
When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it.' In stumbling into comics that way, I discovered that I loved the form.
Kurt Busiek
Life
People
Job
Thought
My Life
Long
Before
Way
Spent
Those
Out
Find
Gee
Finish
Only
Could
Stumbling
Wrote
Comics
Years
Discovered
Five
Form
Loved
Whether
Realized
Pages
Suck
Actually
Things
The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and show people what's in them when they read them, not tell them all about it ahead of time.
Kurt Busiek
Time
Hate
People
Tell
About
Write
Over
Read
Because
Years
Sales
Manager
Quit
Pitches
Being
Want
Stories
Them
Show
Show People
Reason
Twenty
Now
Elevator
I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.
Kurt Busiek
Character
School
College
First
Backup
Characters
High
High School
High School And College
Comics
Sale
Lots
Green
Pro
Story
Created
Lantern
Professional
Mainly, what I like to do is keep things varied and not get in a rut, not tell the same stories over and over.
Kurt Busiek
Tell
Varied
Rut
Mainly
Over
Like
Get
Same
Stories
Keep
Things
Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldn't like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.
Kurt Busiek
Freedom
People
Care
Took
Saw
Corporations
See
Could
Had
He
Like
Protector
Least
His
Very
Modern
Little
Them
Much
Dracula
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