Broadway World Toronto Interviews Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Broadway World Toronto recently sat down to ask some questions of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Marvel Knights 4, Nightcrawler, Sensational Spider-man). Among the questions asked where several focusing on his time writing for Marvel and the difference between writing for comics and the stage.

"Nick Orlando: What do you find the most challenging, writing plays or witing comics and why?"

"Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa: They both have very different challenges. I will say that I feel like when I am working on a play, it’s such a personal expression of who I am. The characters are mine, the story is mine. I’m not writing for an artist, I am writing for myself. I am not writing for an editor. My truest, truest passion is for playwriting. When I’m working on a play, that’s when I feel most of my creative juices flowing. That’s not to, at all, downplay the comic book writing. I am very invested in those characters as well, but I definitely know that these are other people’s characters that I am working on. They are not my characters. If I want a character in one of my plays to die, they die. I could never decide that for Spiderman."