6/28/2023 0 Comments Artifice by Alex Woolfson![]() ![]() So by deciding to tell visual stories in comics form, it let me tell exactly the kinds of stories I want to tell."Īs wonderful as Alex's earlier projects are, especially Artifice, the gay sci-fi collaboration with artist Winona Nelson, nothing could have prepared Woolfson for the run away success of The Young Protectors. And in comics, you essentially have an unlimited special effects budget. And it was even more unlikely that Hollywood would want to fund a big-budget actioner with a gay hero. But you can make a “feature-length” comic for the price of a short film. Originally, I thought I might create films like that and so I became a filmmaker (which is still my day job)-but I soon realized speculative fiction films are so incredibly expensive that it’d be extremely unlikely I’d ever be able to fund them myself. And it didn’t take long before I realised that if I wanted to see those stories in the world, that I’d have to make them myself. "As a gay kid growing up, I loved science-fiction and action films and comics, but I never got to see what I really wanted to see and that’s kick-ass genre fiction with heroes, real heroes, who just happened to like other guys. ![]()
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