Kickstart Comics – The Joshua Williamson Interview

Now onto the comics: Growing up I was a fan of Jack Kirby, Peter David, Frank Miller, Garth Ennis, Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore and James Robinson. Really, James Robinson, Peter David and Grant Morrison were the top three. Those guys shaped a lot of what made me want to write comics. When I go back and read their work I find that it still holds up and I want to copy their techniques. When I got older I started to look at a lot of Geoff Johns and Brian Michael Bendis comics. I studied scripts and comics by both guys religiously and obsessively. I was fascinated by the decisions they made in their writing. In fact, while I was writing Mirror, Mirror, I was taking a comics writing class taught by Bendis.