Dan Parent’s Archie Adventures and Kevin Kelly’s 15th Anniversary
Dan Parent is interviewed by Josh Stafford and Howard Wong. Among the things they discuss are a recent Ringo Award for Dan, a new Archie movie coming soon written by Tom King and Dan’s involvement with getting Tom King involved with Archie, what the movie will be like, how he pitched Kevin Keller, the characters debut and the reaction to him both inside Archie and outside in terms of readership and the media, what they chose to do and not do in part based on other gay characters in comics, the reaction to the story about Kevin getting married, the G.L.A.A.D. award and George Takei getting involved in a story, other minority characters that was introduced, his 40 year history with the company and that various changes over those years, working with Dan DeCarlo and other major Archie artists, the stories that got large media attention, the “controversial” stories Archie avoided in the 1990s, advise for writers wanting to do short funny stories.
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