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Creating IRON FIST: THE LIVING WEAPON With KAARE ANDREWS

Iron Fist: The Living Weapon courtesy Marvel
Iron Fist: The Living Weapon courtesy Marvel

Iron Fist is a comeback kid of 2014 and it’s only getting bigger with a Marvel Netflix television show on the horizon.

Iron Fist: The Living Weapon Volume One: Rage arrives this week collecting the first six issues.

Kaare Andrews is writing, penciling, inking and creating covers for Iron Fist: The Living Weapon.The celebrated artist is acts as an executive producer/director for Danny Rand’s solo series.

When the book just launched I Andrews what brought him back to comics after directing movies and why he took on nearly every role in producing this series.

 

“When you’re a kid there’s no difference between toys, animation, movies, comic books – it’s all the same thing. It’s things you love and as you get older the world tries to tell you ‘oh those are different things and you can only do one of them,” and I believed them for a little while. I chose comic books first. And then I found some success I thought why can’t I do the other thing. And I started going back and I wanted make movies and so I started writing and directing shorts.

Kaare Andrews and Mark Bagley at Fan Expo Vancouver

 

You know the world tries to box you in and sometimes those boxes are artificial constructs. They’re not real. So if you take that to comic books – the machine has become penciler, inker, colorist, writer – all separate pieces but really…why? There’s no real reason. Those were created to save time and create more product but if you wanted to do all those things you could but what’s happened is a lot of pencilers don’t think they can ink and a lot of inkers don’t think they can color and a lot of writers don’t think they can draw when really…why can’t you do everything. So I’m just bringing it back to like my heroes like Jim Steranko, Frank Miller, John Byrne and Jim Starlin and Will Eisner – all those guys that did everything you know.”

You can order Iron Fist: The Living Weapon Volume One: Rage and it arrives in comic shops this Wednesday.

By Editor

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