A Cavalier Disregard for Genre: Talking with Matt Kindt, Author of Boom! Studios’ New Series ‘Folklords’

Folklords is a genre defying series from Boom! Studios that focuses on Ansel, a boy who lives in a magical world but dreams of finding the one in his dreams, which suspiciously looks a lot like ours. We here at Black Nerd Problems had a chance to talk with the series writer, Matt Kindt who is a St. Louis based, Eisner-award winning comic book creator and picked his mind about his past and present work.

A little bit of this, and a little bit of that… Black Nerd Problems: A lot of your older work features a lot of noir elements between Pistolwhip, Super Spy, and MIND MGMT. What was the inspiration to pivot over a more fantasy driven world with these noir thematic elements in the background? Matt Kindt: I’m just attracted to all of these different genres. I grew up reading things like Ian Fleming’s books, and then Doc Savage, and tons of science fiction. Even like the Marvel Comics Conan stories got me interested in the original pulp novels. Fantasy was one of those genres that I never really felt like I wanted to take part in, and I couldn’t figure it out because I love barbarians and I loved the idea of traveling and running into all these adventurers, but the idea of writing something like that had never appealed to me before. The older I got I was like “I’ve done spies. I’ve done science fiction. I’ve done all of these other genres. Why haven’t I done fantasy?” You know, I enjoy it, and I think I just resisted it because… I’m not sure why. I think the rational part of m…