This one is pretty cool in my mind, as I have been a huge Crow fan since my Dad told me I couldn't see the movie. (In his defense I was in 5th grade) Click either image to read the full interview.
Were
you a fan of The Crow franchise before your work on The Crow Curare? If so which incarnation or elements struck
you the most?
I think I was 16 when I saw The Crow. I loved the Alex Proyas movie
with Brandon Lee straight away. I went to see it twice at the theatre. The
comic was released in France after the huge success of the film.
Working as an artist on a Crow story written by James O’Barr is a
dream come true. Actually, the first comic I did, Armelle et l'Oiseau (Armelle and the Bird), which was inspired a
lot by The Crow. That’s not the same
kind of story. It’s more like a kind of fairytale; it’s about a little girl who
loses her mom, and ends up befriending a strange bird.
How
did you come to work on The Crow Curare?
What happened is I met the artist Miran Kim
in Anougleme a few years ago (during the biggest comic convention in France).
She used to do some Crow covers in
the late 90s (she also painted that amazing variant cover for the first issue
of Curare). I told her I was planning
to do some Crow fan art, and she
suggested that I send some to James O'Barr. I was crazy lucky because...
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