Promotional: Newsarama interview.
Shaun Manning from Newsarama and I talk about comics and, in particular, BOOM! Studios.
NRAMA: You also mentioned having a story in Cthulhu Tales: The Rising. Now, Cthulhu doesn't seem like one given to comedy. What can you tell us about your story in that book?Go read it here. There's also some art by Abraham that, indeed, shows he drew the hell out of it.
KC: My Cthulhu Tales story isn't comedic, actually. I wanted to branch out a bit and ended up contributing a straight horror monologue to the book. My pal Josh Krach helped me out a bit when I was first trying to put it together by equating comedy and horror. They both involve a punchline, just one involves laughter and the other involves screams and agony.
My story's called "The Art of Noises" and it's about the secret history of 20th century music and how everyone's favorite Lovecraft creation fits into the whole thing. I got the title from a famous essay by Luigi Russolo, who designed these beautiful noise generators in the first part of the last century, and the germ of the story came from Mahler's Third Symphony, which has a key structure that was radically different from anyone else's work at the time.
Wow, could that sound more pretentious?
