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Todd McFarlane on the problem with still being relevant

"You don’t let people stay on the stage until they’re sixty or seventy!"

Features by Chloe Maveal, Contributing writer

Published on Thu Aug 17 2023

You don’t so much have an interview with Todd McFarlane as you end up having a Todd McFarlane experience. One of comics greatest rebels, co-founder of Image Comics, and creator of countless comic book favorites, McFarlane is never at a loss for words when it comes to talking about the industry — and Popverse found ourselves in the perfect position to talk to him about all of that rolled up into one conversation.

Is that rebellious kid still in there? Are the other rebellious kids still around? What does literally any of that mean? Well let me tell you, the Todd was more than happy to tell me during our brief chat at San Diego Comic-Con.

Popverse: Let me tell you — you are a hard man to get in a room alone.

McFarlane: Yeah. Well

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Chloe Maveal: Chloe Maveal is the Editor-In-Chief of the guerilla website The Gutter Review, and is a freelance essayist who specializes in British comics, pop culture history, and the subversive qualities of “trashy” media. Their work has been featured all over the internet with bylines in 2000 AD, The Treasury of British Comics, Publishers Weekly, Polygon, Comics Beat, and many others.