The Carcosa Interview: Jeremy Whitley is in Love

You may remember seeing Jeremy Whitley in our first batch of  Carcosa Interviews back in 2014. Since then he’s had a comic successfully funded on Kickstarter and produced more comic content including more Princeless, adding to its dedicated fanbase. This month he’s promoting a very special anthology issue from Marvel titled Secret Wars: Secret Love which is being released later this month. We had a conversation to find out more about the project and his thoughts. Black Nerd Problems: The whole Secret Love issue screams “OTPAlert,” like crack ships all abound, get your ships sailing into the sunset and I. LOVE. IT. How did you get involved with such a project with Marvel? Jeremy Whitley: Well, I’ve been lucky enough to know some folks who’ve been working on projects on Marvel over the last few years (shout out to Kelly Sue and Matt). From what I understand they had been passing my book (Princeless) around the office. With Pirate Princless coming out I was making the rounds and mentioning to some editors that I’d love to do some work with Marvel. Tom Brevoort said he thought some of the other editors would definitely be interested, so he shared some of my stuff with them. A little while later Emily Shaw contacted me about this book and I was sold from the word go.

  BNP: What initially drew you to work on this project? What did you hope to bring to the table with your skills as a comic book writer? Whitley: It was a combination of things. I loved the idea of being able to…