What is the collaborative process of creating a comic book story like?
TD: Ron and I have worked together for over twenty years and we got into the habit while we were working on Spider-Man to talk about Peter Parker and figure out what he’s feeling–what is his mental state, what is he trying to achieve, what’s getting in his way? There are times when we spend hours and hours discussing the characters and then we get off the phone and realize, “Man! We never even talked about what the story is!” But the stories flow out of those talks. And we carried over that process to Spider-Girl. RF: I would assume we collaborate more than most writer-artist teams. Most of the ideas I pitch to Tom during the course of any given day will be about character interactions. TD: Ron, our inker Sal Buscema, and I get along and we love the craft of making comics. And when the team was made of our original artist Pat Oliffe, inker Al Williamson, and me, the three of us got along great too. I’ve always maintained that if the creative team is having a great time it shows on the
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