PAUL CORNISH
Paul Cornish
Last year I was invited by Rich Handley and Lou Tambone to contribute to a book they were editing. This month that book has been published! The Man Who Laughs: Exploring the Clown Prince of Crime is a book of essays about DC Comics' super-villain, The Joker. As well as being edited by Lou Tambone and Rich Handley, it has a foreword by Bob Rozakis and an afterword by Steve Englehart, and features essays by Tom K. Mason, Michael Jan Friedman, Bobby Nash, Jim Beard, Brian Cronin, Duy Tano, Alan J. Porter, Valentina Rossi, Jo Duffy, Lou Tambone, Robert Greenberger, Rich Handley, Joseph F. Berenato, Kaz B. Towner, LaMarrison Forte, Keith R.A. DeCandido, John Trumbull, Glenn Hauman, Paul Kupperberg, and me! It's published by Crazy 8 Press. It's a real thrill to have my work published alongside such talented and accomplished people. Seeing my name among that of legendary comic book professionals like Kupperberg, Greenberger, Rozakis, Duffy, and Englehart is surreal! It's also an honour to be published alongside my good friends Duy Tano and LaMar Forte. Even if I wasn't in it I would be recommending this book. All the essays are excellent. Pretty much every interpretation of the Joker in every medium gets scrutinised from some very unexpected angles. I'm immensely grateful to Rich and Lou for asking me to contribute. I hope I did their fantastic project justice. I'm hoping to do more of this kind of work in the future. In the meantime though, you can buy The Man Who Laughs in print and on Kindle at the following link. Buy it on Amazon here. Also, check out the video below. It features some of the contributors to this book discussing the Joker in depth. The video is part of Duy Tano's The Comics Cube. Duy is well worth a follow on Youtube and/or Spotify. He regularly interviews some of the biggest and best names in comics and discusses and reviews all kinds of amazing comic books. Some of these discussions feature me, but don't let that put you off. I am after all, a published writer now.
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