David Aja

@davidaja.com

Peculiar comic creator, designer and illustrator. A humble genius. Many prestigious and unremunerated awards including five Eisner. THE SEEDS, HAWKEYE, IRON FIST, SCARLET WITCH... https://linktr.ee/dav.aja

Nearly ten years ago, @annienocenti.bsky.social and I started thinking on a cyberpunk Eco-Dystopia story about global warming, fake news, resources consumption of tech, animal intelligence, human impact on the environment.... We did The Seeds. Dystopia we called it, hahaha.

Decades ago, I designed, wrote, penciled this for DC Comics; inks by John Totleben, letters by John Costanza, colors by Tatjana Wood. It was assigned & completed on super-short notice; "can you summarize all you guys have done & are planning?" was the job.

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My uncle, Mick, whose mother had a Music Shop in London, gave me one Christmas when I was a kid two CDs and told me those where "Classical Music": The Pogues' "Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash" and Alice Cooper's "Killer". He was right.

I’ve finished the last page of Absolute Martian Manhunter, and it broke my heart to say goodbye to these characters and their world. When the issue comes out, there will be time for greetings, but right now I feel a mix of pride and sadness. 19m, 27d, and 260p after this first sketch, here we are!

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