Mark Poulton Interview At Project Fanboy!
July 2nd, 2008
Mark Poulton has been making waves (pun most certainly intended) recently with his Hawaiian supernatural PI book Koni Waves with Arcana Comics. But the big news is that he’s recently become Vice President of Operations for Arcana. Being a man with a lot to talk about, we caught up with him to check out what he had to say about the future of Arcana, their plans for San Diego Comic Con, and his seemingly endless list of upcoming projects!
Matt Grant: First off, Mark, thanks for taking the time to talk with us here, we really appreciate it!
Mark Poulton: No, problem. It’s my pleasure.
MG: So, there’s a lot to talk about, but let’s start off with the basics: How did you get into comics, and at what point did you realize that you wanted to create them?
MP: I started collecting comics when I was 12. GI Joe #34 was my first comic. I’ve been hooked ever since. Some of my favorite comic books are Amazing Spider-Man, Booster Gold, Cable/Deadpool, GI Joe, Justice League, Witchblade, Youngblood, and Rob Liefeld’s New Mutants/X-Force run.
Working in comics was something I thought about ever since I started collecting. I always thought I would be an artist though. It wasn’t until college when I started taking some writing classes that my focus shifted. I really started enjoying writing and I ended up optioning a screenplay a few years after college. The script bounced around in development for a couple of years and never got past that point. During that time, I was developing Koni Waves with my friends. It was moving along slowly I think mostly because I was more concerned with my screenwriting, but once I moved my focus back to comics things really took off. We pitched Koni to a few companies and received a lot of interest, but ultimately decided to go with Arcana because we thought they seemed like a company headed in the right direction. I’ve been making comics ever since.
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