When I was a kid, my father used to take my older sister and me to “the green striped store” once a week and give us each a dollar to buy comic books. I can remember getting to buy five each (which should date me!). Oddly enough I don’t remember the ones I used to buy, probably because I read them to shreds and they ended up, after a suitably long time under my bed, in the garbage. But I remember the ones my sister had. She was OCD about keeping them looking new, organizing them, and keeping them away from me. She had more success in the first two tasks than she had in the last.
Even battered and torn, her comic collection is worth a pretty penny — but if I hadn’t been her little sister, she’d probably be independently wealthy by now. So all those people she’s helped keep healthy (she’s a doctor) owe me one.
She had the X-Men before they were cool and all of the issues where the old X-Men were captured and Prof. X had to bring in the new ones — you know, like Wolverine and the Banshee. She had The Amazing Spiderman, Sheena Queen of the Jungle, The Claws of the Cat, and a dozen others. Most importantly for you and me, she collected a comic called Werewolf by Night.
And that’s where I came by my love of werewolves; that’s why I write about them.
"Send me a story," he said, "and I'll turn it into a comic."
And so I did -- and he kept his word. Writers are, all of us, control freaks. Why else do you think we write books where we get to make the rules? It doesn't matter whether we are writing books, short stories, or comics -- we are control freaks. David is a gifted writer, no doubt about that -- but he is also amazingly patient with my fussing and fiddling with his words. He also serves as a mediator between the artists and me (and my incredible team of fact-checking forum folks).
Patricia Briggs is a #1 New York Times bestselling author who has written more than a dozen novels, including the first three books in her hit series about Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson, a VW mechanic who also happens to be a shapeshifter in touch with the strange, unseen world of vampires, werewolves, ancient fae, and other mystical creatures. Briggs lives in Washington.
Dunno if you guys have anything to do with this, but "Homecoming" is currently in the Top 100 over at BN.com, making it the bestselling graphic novel (if you ignore Wimpy Kid).
Werewolf By Night is pretty cool.
Well, yeah, we'd like to *think* we have something to do with it. That's great news! Seriously, the book is gorgeous, so anybody catching a glimpse of the interior pages would want to buy it. IMHO.
I had a friend over the other day who picked up a copy of Homecoming and just started flipping through it, mesmerized.
I laughed at him.
He said, "Damn, comic books have come a long ways since I was a kid."
I said, "Yup," with a grin.
Hi Torsten Adair my friend, how are you? Ernst here, the oldest of the Dabel Brothers, my brothers and I produced a great quality work with "Homecoming" as we always do with all of the other graphic novels we put together. I, personally work with Patricia Briggs to make sure that she is always happy :) I thank God for blessing this book to the top of BN.com!
This just in: HOMECOMING hit #1 on the New York Times graphic novel bestseller list! Congratulations, Patricia!