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Gary Spencer Millidge is the creator of the cult series Strangehaven, a comics book which combines ordinary life with a disturbing touch of surreal and magic.
More info about the author at www.millidge.com.
This interview has been realized via email during the time period from June to the first days of September 2002.
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Could you introduce yourself to the Italian audience?
Of course.
My name is Gary Spencer Millidge and I am a self-publishing comic book writer/artist from the UK.
I have been producing an ongoing adult fiction series called Strangehaven for the past seven years and have published fourteen issues and two book collections so far. My core audience is through the US direct market, but I sell copies all over the world. It has achieved recognition with a number of award nominations and a string of positive reviews in the trade press. I've been a fan of comics all my life and produced several fanzines in my youth. I have also managed my own comic retail business.
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What kind of comics and comics artists did influence you in order to try a career in the field?
I grew up with traditional British comics - a strange mixture of American superhero reprints and locally produced adventure and humour strips - and this I think gave me a wider appreciation of comic art in general. It was wild to read Leo Baxendale and Ken Reid alongside Lee/Kirby and Lee/Ditko. Later I discovered colour American comics and was drawn to the soap opera elements of Marvel comics.
At college, I discovered Heavy Metal, which was at that time reprinting the best of European comics; Moebius, Bilal, Zha/Claveaux, Caza and mixing
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