“I love kids’ fantasy…everything from L. Frank Baum to A. A. Milne … Narnia to Wonderland to Neverland.”

A Conversation With The Legendary J.M. DeMatteis! (2004)
Context: I love kids’ fantasy... everything from L. Frank Baum to A. A. Milne … Narnia to Wonderland to Neverland. These are magical stories that nurtured me as a child and then nurtured my own children, as well. What better legacy could a writer have than to continue that wonderful tradition of imagination and insight and adventure? Comics, of course, pretty much ignore the children’s market. I’ve been obsessed, for years now, with doing some projects that could bring that level of imagination and literary and artistic quality to the comic book form.

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