The Creative Mind

When I first started reading comic books one of my favorite pages in the whole book was the letters page. Now I miss the letters pages in the comics but what I really miss is what they filled up that page with on the first issue or two of a new book. After all the book had not been released yet so no one could write in about the book. Writers usually gave you an insight into their creative mind and the process of how the book came into being. Now there is no set process on how to create anything. It may just pop into your head. It may come from having a good time with friends. Still it may come from someone just sitting down at a keyboard or drawing pad trying to create something on purpose. Inspration can strike anywhere. Reading how anything is created has always fasinated me. Many creators wrote on those pages how the series idea came to mind. Sometimes they had it easy. The characters were already created for them. Either the company wanted a new book or reader demand for a favorite character, well demaned it. In that case the writer would fill in any new readers on the background of the character. In this case our example is from Freedom Fighters #1. These were the Quality Comics heroes that DC had bought out years ago but had rarely used. He fills us in on the 2 times they used them as a group but until that time they worked alone. The reason for the new book, at least from a writers point of view, is to show how they would work as a group. To have them change and grow into their characters. After, all the Justice League, Justice Society and Legion of Super-heroes were well established in these areas already. If you want to read more you should be able to click on the photo above and enlarge it to read. I plan on another posting on letters pages later.