Kathryn and Stuart Immonen have been making comics together for more
than 20 years. Stuart has worked for virtually every comics publisher
that has existed in the past two decades and is best known for such
diverse work as Nextwave, Superman: Secret Identity and Ultimate
Spider-man. Kathryn has written stories for both DC and Marvel,
including the sleeper hit miniseries Patsy Walker: Hellcat. Kathryn and Stuart published Moving Pictures with Top Shelf Productions in June,
recently completed the special edition of Never As Bad As You Think for
BOOM! Studios and are moving on to their next project, Russian Olive to
Red King. They live in London, Ont., with their very tall son and their
very bad dog.
On your nightstand now:
Kathryn: Gael Greene's Insatiable and Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park.
Stuart: Jaime Hernandez's Locas II and Anne Enright's Yesterday's Weather.
Favorite book when you were a child:
Kathryn: Noel Streatfield's Ballet Shoes.
Stuart: Walter R. Brooks's Freddy the Detective.
Your top five authors:
Today we mutually agree on Herge, Paul Theroux, Tove Jansson, Iain Banks and Cormac McCarthy.
Book you've faked reading:
Kathryn: Almost every single play in my fourth-year BFA theater seminar.
Stuart: Moby-Dick! For a grade seven book report.
Book you're an evangelist for:
Kathryn and Stuart: The Complete Carl Barks Library.
Book you've bought for the cover:
Kathryn: Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding.
Stuart: Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero.
Book that changed your life:
Kathryn: Hemingway's A Moveable Feast.
Stuart: Dan Koppel's To See Every Bird on Earth (most recently, anyway).
Favorite line from a book:
Stuart: "F*** the bloody creative life."--Eddie Campbell in Alec: The Years Have Pants (most recently, anyway).
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
Kathryn: Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson.
Stuart: The Crow Road by Iain Banks.