The Carcosa Interview: Jeremy Whitley

If there’s anything we love here at BNP, it’s good writing and representation in our comic books. As you can imagine, we’re big fans of Jeremy Whitley. The Eisner Award nominee has had his writing featured on many publications, but most of us here were introduced to his work through his own creation, Princeless, the story of an African-American Princess whose independence is on full display. Jeremy was gracious enough to sit down with us for an interview on the impact of Princeless and other projects he has in the works. Black Nerd Problems: A year ago, Princeless was reissued by Action Comics making it more affordable and more readily available to a bigger audience, since it was out of print and only so many issues were printed in the initial run. How has the interaction been with this new crop of readers and fans? Do you have any particular stories of emails, tweets or meetings with fans that let you know this was the right thing to do with Princeless? Jeremy: Absolutely. I’ve spoken to a lot of people that picked up our $1 first issue which we released when we came back. I wanted for people to be able to give it a shot or give their kids something to try without investing too heavily. As a father now myself, I know how disappointing it is to spend a lot of time or money on something your kid ends up not caring about. Being a comic aimed at a younger audience I know that’s a hill we have to climb. As for interactions with fans, I’ve had a trend recently of women crying on m…