Work : Comics :
Early in 1988 and halfway through 4th grade, I enrolled in an afterschool
video class at my elementary school. For the next two and a half years,
I spent one or two
hours each week running around making movies with the Drama teacher, ten
other kids, and a video camera. The very first one was a long project called
“My Brother’s An Alien,” sort of a kid version of “Star Wars.” Inspired
by Denny O’Neil and Jerry Ordway’s beautiful 1989 comic book adaptation
of “Batman,” I decided to do my own movie adaptation. It’s fun to see how
I clarified certain aspects of the movie with the unlimited budget of a
comic: Tinny has a PC for a head, Ed’s spaceship is a spaceship and not
a piano, etc.
