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Darwyn Cooke, The Man Behind DC comics' The New Frontier

Saturday, March 29th, 2008 – running time 35:14
The opportunity of the lifetime, Conor and Josh sit down and talk with creator Darwyn Cooke about The New Frontier, The Spirit, and making comics on an early Sunday morning in SF. Even on very little sleep the man minces no words.

Very late on a Saturday night, we say to Darwyn, "Hey, when do you want to do that interview?" Darwyn asks if we are man enough to meet him at 9 AM the next morning, only a few short hours away. But this Darwyn Cooke, the man behind so many great comics and truly a master of the comics form. So, of course we're man enough. We're groggy, but we're men.

The recent release of the Justice League: New Frontier DVD, and continued focus on Cooke's New Frontier comics, especially the gorgeous Absolute Edition, have shown comic readers that there is another way to make comics. It's clean, elegant, intelligent, and not gimmicky. Cooke followed up on that success with a brilliant 12 issue run on The Spirit. Cooke talks to us about where he came from, how he thinks about comics, what they should be, and even gives us a taste of what we'll see in the future.

It's candid, it's a little salty, and it's mostly coherent. It's Darwyn Cooke on iFanboy!