Gavin snagged a brief interview with the man, the legend, the Chris Claremont. Claremont will actually be in Salt Lake City appearing at Night Flight Comics this Saturday, so mark your calendars!

You can check out Gavin’s full interview at his new home at City Weekly(.net)!

Gavin: What first got you interested in writing. And what were some early comics you read early on?

Chris: I just always wrote. Never thought about it, just always did it. The first comics I read were in Eagle. Eagle was a boy’s magazine published in England. My grandmother sent it to me so I would stay connected to home. I guess the thought probably was that when we came back, I’d have something in common with the other boys. Well, we didn’t go back to the UK, but Eagle opened the door to a type of story-telling I probably wouldn’t have ever seen without my grandmother’s subscription. Which led to a career, that in a family were everyone was a doctor or lawyer, not perhaps what Granny C. had in mind. Eagle featured continuing stories like Dan Dare, Heroes The Spartan, and the biographies of famous Brits like Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Montgomery and Jesus Christ. The publisher was an Anglican minister interested in providing England’s youth with role models, to combat other, more… tawdry… influences. (Did I mention that my grandmother was the daughter of a vicar, and also a very good graphic artist?)