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Geek Syndicate
GS: You’re at a period in your career it seems like, where you’re really comfortable with what you’re doing. Is that a fair assumption? DB: I wasn’t for a while but now? I think I just got older and just grew up at some point. It’s a really clichéd thing, but I think I just needed to grow up. I hit my thirties and I like it. I think I like it more than when I was in my twenties. Pain and suffering? I’ve had some pain and suffering and it kind of tempers stuff. I feel more relaxed in life. I used to be very stressed about everything so now, even from the point of starting It Came, I’m not saying I changed it because of the reviews; it was just a natural progression. It evolves as it goes on because I’m not the same person that I was when I started writing it. It’s so different now that it’s going to change. I still think it’s funny that thing of writing it where I don’t write a script; it’s like a vague outline and then I’d write the dialogue and letter it so that way it’s changed slightly. At the beginning I was trying to write the jokes and I’d sit there writing jokes and nothing was ever funny anymore because I’d written them a thousand times. It’s like the bit where he goes “I want to be as feminine as you”. That lost all meaning in my head. It’s like when you say sausages too many times; it’s like what is this? What does this even mean any more?
Image © Titan Comics, 2013 Issue Two will be out in September

written and drawn myself. So it’s been like, what? Twelve years. It’s been a long time, so it will be nice

GS: So on a final note then, what is your pitch to people who haven’t seen this before and you want them to pick up this book? How are you going to sell it to them? DB: I always describe it as a 1950s comedy B-movie pastiche, because that’s what it is. When it was described as a satire and sat there and thought “it’s not a satire, it’s a pastiche or a parody.” It’s not satirical. It’s sort of an Elstree Studios B-movie if they’d done one. That’s the best way to put it, with a little hint of Carry On, but good Carry On GS: So a B-movie with plenty of good British humour thrown in DB: Exactly, you should pitch for me. That’s much better! But, yeah, that’s how I’d describe it GS: Feel free to use that!

Christophe Montoya
IT CAME! Issue one is published by Titan Comics and is available in all good comic retailers and digitally from Comixology. Issue Two will be published mid-September.
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