So while I can’t answer too many questions — confidentiality issues, general decency, and limits on the number of hours in the day I can spend here — I’ll try to answer questions that seem of general interest as often as I can.
General caution: please don’t ask me to review portfolios, scripts, or help you get work (time just doesn’t permit).
Nope.
I think I’d defer to my co-authors. Randy and Matt came up with the Narrow Focus moniker, and it’s more academic than my tendency.
I may get a chance to a bit of Marvel history…we shall see…
The year is young, and so far I’;ve mostly been working on projects with NYC’s Department of Education. And my teaching.
No quick tips. There are lots of great books on the subject, from the series we did at DC with Watson-Gupthill to individual creator books like Scott McCloud’s, or Drawing With Words, Writing With Pictures. Good luck!
Not by me, but it’s certainly possible Steve drew inspiration from his previous work.
Not that I recall, but my memory’s not great on points like that.
Definitely by Moorcock. I think it might have been one of the other avatars–maybe Hawkmoon? But I was a fierce reader of his work.
It’s possible. But I’ve loved dragons from Anne McCaffrey’s books too. (And Naomi Novick’s, but those came much later).
