The Carcosa Interview: Greg Pak’s Been Busy!

You may remember that Greg Pak was one of our first Carcosa Interviews, back in August 2014. Since then, he’s had a great run as the author for the Storm comic and has launched a new project: The Princess Who Saved Herself, based on the Jonathan Coulton song, drawn by Takeshi Miyazawa. This month, he’s promoting a great comics anthology full of diverse writers and artists, Broken Frontier. We had an email conversation to find out more about where he’s been and where he sees diverse publications going. Black Nerd Problems: Before we dive into all of the new stuff you’re doing, I have a question about your just completed run of Storm: The last issue was great, the opening pages grabbed me. (As a mom with a small one at home, I could recite Goodnight Moon by heart.) Where’d the inspiration for that come from? What made you think to use a child’s bedtime story for Kenji? Greg Pak: Thanks so much for the kind words! I had a blast working on the book — and artists Victor Ibañez and Neil Edwards really brought that last issue home. The creepy voiceover at the opening was a kind of tip of the hat to all the horror movies I’ve loved over the years that use children’s rhymes and songs to great, terrifying effect. There’s something about children’s stories and chants that lend themselves to horror, and it was fun to play in that tradition. BNP: On the new stuff, it hasn’t even been a year since your last talk with BNP and you’ve been a busy, busy guy. You closed a Kickstarter back in M…