Jamie Delano Interview

ABSTRACT

British writer Jamie Delano is synonymous with comics that reveal truths about both inner worlds of characters and the social, cultural and political optics that inform and contextualise their stories. In this interview, undertaken in January 2020, he discusses writing John Constantine, Hellblazer, Animal Man and Captain Britain, his approach to storytelling and writing, the current popularity of superheroes within the broader pop culture, and the relationship between creatives and the comics industry today.

KEYWORDS:

• Jamie Delano
• Comics Studies
• Constantine
• writing
• storytelling

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Jeffery Klaehn

Jeffery Klaehn holds a PhD in communication from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD in sociology from the University of Strathclyde. He has published interviews with the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Studies in Comics, ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, the International Journal of Comic Art, the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, Loading: the Journal of the Canadian Gaming Studies Association, First Person Scholar, Horror Studies, Media Theory, Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures and New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. More information about his research can be found at: http://uva.academia.edu/JefferyKlaehn