Meet Charles Sobietti, anti-jihad comic book hero
Published by Avi Green on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 at 4:24 AM.
Jamie Glazov at Front Page Magazine interviews Darius LaMonica about how he and Sleet thought to write Matamoros. LaMonica mentions something Sleet alluded to that I agree with:
As of this writing, I tried looking through some of the major comic sites, such as Newsarama, to see if they had anything to say about Matamoros, and guess what? Nada. It's been almost 3 months since the book first came out, and none have said anything. That shows just how badly biased they are. If one of the leading messages of comic books is to show courage and fortitude, today's mainstream news sources dedicated to comic books are really blowing it badly.
I'm very glad that LaMonica and Sleet, as well as John Cox, thought of doing this project, and I hope that in the future, it will lead to more stories like it in comic books.
FP: What made you produce Matamoros? Tell us exactly what it is about.I think what Sleet was bothered about, and rightfully so, is how the death of hero who could fight what Charles Sobietti, the hero of Matamoros, is now, was considered a story worth writing about by the MSM. Just what makes the death of Capt. America more important than the real problems that could be focused upon, yet which Marvel, with its current management, are unwilling to work on?
LaMonica: My co-writer, Sleet, actually made the decision with an off-hand remark. Last year we were having a discussion about how popular culture has ignored the war with radical Islam and our talk turned to the death of Steve Rogers, Marvel Comics' original Captain America. Sleet was particularly annoyed at this event and said to me "You're a comic book fan. Why don't we write our own comic?" So we wrote a script and I decided to contact the popular political cartoon team of Cox & Forkum for an artist referral since neither Sleet nor I can draw. John Cox read the script and really enjoyed it so he decided to come on board with the project instead of referring us to another artist.
As of this writing, I tried looking through some of the major comic sites, such as Newsarama, to see if they had anything to say about Matamoros, and guess what? Nada. It's been almost 3 months since the book first came out, and none have said anything. That shows just how badly biased they are. If one of the leading messages of comic books is to show courage and fortitude, today's mainstream news sources dedicated to comic books are really blowing it badly.
I'm very glad that LaMonica and Sleet, as well as John Cox, thought of doing this project, and I hope that in the future, it will lead to more stories like it in comic books.
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