Daniel Robert Epstein: Matt Wagner

I thought the Matt Wagner interview was great. I have been a big fan of his since reading Grendel. He certainly is an incredible writer as well as artist.
When I joined this site I thought it was all about beautiful women. When I saw the Neil Gaiman interview and now the Matt Wagner interview, I was impressed. Please keep bringing more great things like these to the site. Thanks.

i'm in complete agreement - the gaiman interview got me digging thro0ugh my old sandman comics - now this is going to send me digging for those grendels... and i had no clue what he was doing these days. thanks!

Nice interview, man. My frst introduction to Matt's work was Sandman Mystery Theater in which he helped bring the immense talents of Steven T. Seagle, Michael Lark, and my friend, and unwitting mentor, Guy Davis to my attention. After reading SMT and learning about Grendel, reading it, and other things Matt's done (interestingly, while I'm more a fan of indy books these days, my favorite works of Matt's, outside of Grendel, have been his more mainstream-y stuff. Weird.) I've become a huge fan of his. Haven't had the pleasure of meeting him yet, but I hope it happens soon. He's one of a relatively short list of writers that I desperately want to work with at some point in my career. I'd love to do a Grendel story. Damn!

Anyway, thanks for the interview. Good stuff and a worthy target for interogation.

that interview was way cool

in him i was born
in him shall i die
in him i shall lose
name, station, and face

I came to this site for the pretty naked girls but I'm consistently impressed by the quality of these interviews. Thankyou SG for bringing some of the most interesting artists out there to the site for these interviews.

Grendel/Hunter Rose story has got to be one of the most captivating comic book characters I have ever had the pleasure to read.

Wow. Great article. Since I joined SG, I've seen interviews with Mignola, Gaiman, and now Wager, who are three of my absolute favorites. I swear, sometimes I feel like someone designed this site for me.

I haven't read a lot of interviews with Wagner, so I really appreciated this opportunity to find out what two of my favorite stories mean to their author. Thanks, Daniel.

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Wagner's a genius, and I'm very happy that SG.com ran the interview with him. Portland (and the entire state of Oregon) is such a mecca for comics creators. I grew up in Vermont, home to just about everyone who drew Swamp Thing (Steve Bissette, Rick Veitch, Scot Eaton, etc.), as well as a fellow by the name of Frank Miller. I was very happy to find that, after relocating 3000 miles, I managed to once again stumble into the midst of comics brilliance.

Time for a new MW interview - Madame Xanadu is fantastic!