Bonus
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The superiority of comic books
It often happens that a director will get an idea for a movie storyboard from a comic. Spielberg said it about Hergé’s Tintin and Rodriguez said it about Frank Miller’s Sin City. Comics undeniably have an advantage over other popular culture media forms because it can introduce a wide range of characters and places, at less cost.
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Back to James Ellroy
We found a quote written by James Ellroy in the introduction to the first volume of the American Tabloid trilogy: “It’s time to embrace bad men and the price they paid to secretly define their time.” The sentence is a tribute to Ellroy’s talent. It’s also consistent with the spirit of our stories, and it’s an apt way to end the discussion on our obsession with bad guys.
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Why Costumes?
Tony “G-Man” Guerrero asked an excellent question on the ComicVine blog in November 2010: “Why do villains wear costumes?” For their first crime, it might be understandable that they’d want to be anonymous, but once they’ve been captured, the character’s costume loses its anonymity. We steer clear of giving our bad guys a too-fanciful or over-sophisticated look. We want them to wear clothes that are appropriate for the mission or that set them apart socially. For those reasons, we enjoyed the simplicity of the costumes in the movie X-Men First Class.
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What Inspired the Accident Caused by Steve Legris?
In the story “No One Is Innocent,” Steve Legris is on the run because he killed a police officer while driving through a roadblock. A similar event with a similar outcome actually happened on Montreal’s South Shore in the summer of 2000. These sad events inspired the the beginning of “No One Is Innocent”.
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One of Our Collaborators Is a Star
We were thrilled to hear that our very own Maxime Bigras won the 2011 Applied Arts award in the “poster illustration” category.
