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Matt Platis
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Couple Questions...

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-You read any current comics?

-Any particular writer you would like to do a story with?

-Do you plan on attending any American comic conventions in the future?

-How's FF: The End coming along? Looking forward to it!
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--You read any current comics?

Sadly not, Matt. Reading comics began to feel a bit like work after I became professional—(analysing them rather than losing myself in the story) and as I was also getting Comps from Marvel, DC and others—over a hundred comics a month-- I began to skim the issues just to stay current. A few years ago the Comps became intermittent and eventually stopped but I was so far behind I didn’t really notice for about a year.
I recently read the entire Legion of Superheroes, Thunder Agents and Doom Patrol Archives— nostalgic curiosity perhaps—but my most recent reading has been the Bourne Trilogy-- Robert Ludlum, The Middle Mind (why consumer culture is turning us into the living dead) by Curtis White, The Lost History of the Aztec and Maya, and a compendium of H G Wells stories. I also listen to audio books while I’m working (most recently a bunch of Agatha Christie). I will always have a tape, music or the TV on while I’m working (except for writing which I do in silence).


--Any particular writer you would like to do a story with?

I never think that far ahead. This time last year I had thought I was in for a long run on Uncanny and when I quit I had no idea what I’d do next. It was Tom Brevoort who suggested ‘FF-The End’.
I have just been watching the third series of the Greatest American Hero (that my son gave me for Christmas) and I thought that might be fun to draw.

--Do you plan on attending any American comic conventions in the future?

No Plans. I was at San Diego this year but not as a guest—I just coordinated my holiday so that I could socialise with a few Pros’. I attended the Bristol Con in the UK at the start of this year, for the first time in two years, because the organiser assured me that a certain gossip monger wouldn’t be in attendance but I was saddened to discover there are other equally unscrupulous ‘journalists’ who will make up a story if you don’t give them what they want. I’m not very good at the spin and hype thing so, at the moment, I feel it makes more sense to just stay away from conventions.

--How's FF: The End coming along? Looking forward to it!

Progress has been slower than I hoped. I had planned to work shorter days to rest a wrist injury but it has proved difficult to break twenty plus years of work-day conditioning so instead I have been taking about a week off per month— over two weeks in December with all of the festivities and such-- having said that, I’m thoroughly enjoying myself.

Alan
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Post by Darren Taylor »

Alan Davis wrote:having said that, I’m thoroughly enjoying myself.

Alan
Good on you. How did you hurt your wrist, I must have missed that one.

Here wishing everyone a very happy and prosperous New Year.

-Darren
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Post by Alan Davis »

You haven't missed any 'news', Darren. I broke my right wrist when I was thirteen and as I've grown older the damaged bones warped to create a ‘lax joint’. Anyone who has seen me at a Convention might have noticed that I wear a wrist support because an enthusiastic or awkward handshake can put me out of action for days. There isn’t any immediate problem but the disability is certain to become more severe as I get older so I’m attempting to delay the inevitable by changing my routine.

A Happy New Year to one an all

Alan
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Post by Darren Taylor »

Alan Davis wrote:You haven't missed any 'news', Darren. I broke my right wrist when I was thirteen and as I've grown older the damaged bones warped to create a ‘lax joint’. Anyone who has seen me at a Convention might have noticed that I wear a wrist support because an enthusiastic or awkward handshake can put me out of action for days. There isn’t any immediate problem but the disability is certain to become more severe as I get older so I’m attempting to delay the inevitable by changing my routine.

A Happy New Year to one an all

Alan
As all things American began to take over my childhood I found myself playing American Football for a team, as a teenager. At the start of the game there's a punt where the ball is kicked to the opposition and they attempt to return this against the "current" so to speak. Not too dissimilar to Rugby in this much. Anyway, on this one occassion as the ball spiralled down through the air I missjudged my timing raising my hands to catch and cradle the ball. The effect was the point of the football struck the point of my thumb. A little bone under my wrist fractured. It wasn't untill a month afterwards that I had felt the pain and really there was little or nothing corrective that could be done. That was my drawing hand. It's fine, except in bad weather and the odd ache, Sheesh, Alan you've brought out the "old-man" in me :wink:

Well more power to your elbow my friend with the holding back of the inevitable.

Much respect,
Darren.
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