Cavan Scott talks with Marvel about the early issues of his smash hit The High Republic comic series, his influences and much more.
Marvel: There’s been some incredible, unexpected horror and monster work in The High Republic so far. Did you look at any classic Star Wars comics, which had so much delightful weirdness within them, before kicking off this series?
CS: Star Wars started for me with the comics, specifically the Marvel run of the ’70s and ’80s (which explains my love for a certain long-eared, green-furred smuggler). But before diving into writing this series, I went back and re-read some classics from the 1990s (now all available on the Marvel Unlimited app which saved me from pulling out my heavy omnibuses). These were primarily Star Wars Republic, Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
As for the horror aspects, at my heart I’m always a horror fan, as is our artist Ario. For this first arc, we took inspiration from Stephen King’s Children of the Corn among others, while also trying to invoke the claustrophobia of films like Alien and Outland. Hopefully, above all, we’re bringing something new to it. One of the ideas was to start the series with all the pomp and circumstance of this shiny new era and then throw our heroes into the complete opposite of the Jedi’s gleaming Starlight Beacon.
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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Cavan Scott talks with Marvel about the early issues of his smash hit The High Republic comic series, his influences and much more.
Marvel: There’s been some incredible, unexpected horror and monster work in The High Republic so far. Did you look at any classic Star Wars comics, which had so much delightful weirdness within them, before kicking off this series?
CS: Star Wars started for me with the comics, specifically the Marvel run of the ’70s and ’80s (which explains my love for a certain long-eared, green-furred smuggler). But before diving into writing this series, I went back and re-read some classics from the 1990s (now all available on the Marvel Unlimited app which saved me from pulling out my heavy omnibuses). These were primarily Star Wars Republic, Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
As for the horror aspects, at my heart I’m always a horror fan, as is our artist Ario. For this first arc, we took inspiration from Stephen King’s Children of the Corn among others, while also trying to invoke the claustrophobia of films like Alien and Outland. Hopefully, above all, we’re bringing something new to it. One of the ideas was to start the series with all the pomp and circumstance of this shiny new era and then throw our heroes into the complete opposite of the Jedi’s gleaming Starlight Beacon.
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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