The Globe’s Barry Hertz talks with Toronto writer Chip Zdarsky’s uncanny resemblance between the current state of Canadian-American relations and the political backdrop of his new comics series White House Robot Romance.
From the article:
Canadian comic-book writer and artist Chip Zdarsky has crafted stories for Earth’s mightiest heroes: Batman, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and of course the multiverse’s most supreme being, Howard the Duck. But now the Toronto-based author (real name: Steve Murray) is fixing his vision on an all-too-real conflict between global superpowers, albeit in a completely accidental fashion.
In his new comic White House Robot Romance, Zdarsky and illustrator Rachael Stott follow the genre-mashing tale of two kitchen-bound droids whose protocol-breaking love affair is set against the backdrop of a war between the United States and Canada. While the story’s geopolitical context might be all-too topical, it was also completely unintentional – Zdarsky wrote the first script for the series about eight months ago, long before any “51st state” talk spilled out into the world.
Read the whole interview here.
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