Q: Be honest! How familiar were you with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein when you first pitched for Unfashioned Creatures?
A: Somewhat familiar in the “read it twenty years ago-remember some-forgot most-library assignment book-don’t like many of the films, but can’t help using them as reference points” sense.
Q: What’s your favorite take on the Frankentstein mythos?
A: Young Frankenstein, of course, and Buffy episode “Some Assembly Required.” Least favorite? Everything else.
Q: Hey! Awesome, love me some Joss Whedon, is he an inspiration? What are some of yours?
A: Yeah, Joss Whedon is an inspiration, along with Preston Sturges, Robert Altman, John Sayles, Paul Dini, Joe Hill, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, David Mamet, to name a few.
Unbelonging
Q: What led you down the comics road to ruin?
A: Picture books. Plain and simple. I love film so it seemed a natural transition. Plus, the heightened attention being paid to the writer in an art-heavy medium is encouraging, especially for those who can’t draw, like me. A happy marriage between art and prose makes for the glorious.
Q: What else are you working on now? Any long-term projects?
A: Stringer, a comic book mini-series now in art development about a lonely musician, scrappy religious girl and witches, and Travels, a vampire and bored lovers film project, for which the first part is complete, and to be shopped for further production and distribution.
Q: If you could be any monster, who/what would you be?
A: Lindsay Lohan.
Thanks Anthony! Let’s all be fair to LinLo too, because Parent Trap is a classic, regardless if she turned into a literal mess of a human.
Anthony Moretta is a Brooklyn-born and bred writer, filmmaker and attorney.
UNFASHIONED CREATURES is a collection of over twenty monstrous, moving and mirthful tributes to Mary Shelley and her legendary tale, Frankenstein. A monstrous body of comic shorts, short-series and original art, sure to inspire equal parts terror and lols.