Were some people surprised that a comic book got nominated for Best Short Fiction?
Well, they changed the rules the following day to make sure it never happened again! I was at party and Charlie Vess was at a different party out in the Arizona desert, and I got to watch a meteorite come down. In England, if you see a falling star, it’s just a white streak of light and it goes ‘Zooom!’ and you go ‘Oh, that was a falling star’. Blink and you miss it, really. Absolutely. Arizona desert, meteorite coming down probably about five miles away and it was like a diamond burning through the sky. And I thought that was amazing, I could get into a car and drive across the desert and go and find a falling star. And then I thought, in the way you do, what if it was a diamond, not a lump of pitted rock, and then I thought what if it’s girl and she has a broken leg and is really pissed off! Then it was a story. I went back to the convention, asked around and found the party Charlie Vess was in, very drunk, very happy, holding onto his award in one hand and a bottle of champagne in t
