- To help celebrate Daredevil’s 40th Anniversary, the webmaster of manwithoutfear.com spent the last month getting in touch with as many past and present Daredevil creators as he could. Why? To get them to answer one question: “What did it mean to you personally and professionally to work on Daredevil?”
Professionally?
I had fun.
I gained respect from folks I wouldn’t have otherwise been respected by.
I earned legitimacy in a field I’ve always adored.
I got to work with good friends on something we all believed in, and helped restore an amazing character to its former greatness.
I fulfilled another life-long dream.
Personally? Well, that’s personal.
Jimmy Palmiotti – Inker, DAREDEVIL
For me, it was an exciting time to be working in comics and when Joe and I created Marvel Knights, the first character we asked for was Daredevil. At that time, the book was being cancelled and we thought we could bring the numbers and interest back up to where it should be. The run with Kevin Smith and Joe was a lot of fun and having been a fan since the book began, I took special pleasure in interpreting all the characters in this modern version and then seeing what we did make it to film. Probably the most fun was doing the Wizard 1/2 featuring Daredevil. I got to work on the cover and ink John Romita, as well as pencil a piece that was inked by my favorite, Kevin Nowlan. All around, working on the title was a great experience.
Joe Quesada – Penciller, editor, DAREDEVIL
I guess I could say it’s a dream project to be working on Daredevil but that wouldn’t be doing it justice. Working on DD, for me, has been almost therapeutic in nature and completely life altering. Matt Murdock and his life are so Shakespearean, that you to work out a lot of your own personal demons as you create stories for Matt and his world. But more importantly, I will eternally be indebted to Matt and DD, he is the character that has changed my life and I guess by virtue of that changed Marvel. If it wasn’t for DD flagshipping Marvel Knights with Kevin Smith, MK wouldn’t be the success that it turned out to be. It’s “the little imprint that could!” From there DD helped get me this very cool job I now have as EiC. So, although Spidey and X-Men are the big players here at Marvel, it took a little guy dressed in red to change the direction of the company and my life completely.
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