BARBIERE HABLA DE FIVE GHOSTS

"Five Ghosts is about an adventurer who is an Indiana Jones type, but he's possessed by five ghosts that are literary characters. It was an idea that just popped into my head. I wanted to do a period-focused piece that really fit with Chris Mooneyham's art, and I thought what if…?"

"Because it's a pulp story we can keep it more streamlined," he said. "It tends to wear the literary aspects on it's sleeve with easter eggs and stuff. It's our love letter to genre. Right now we're doing horror, and it's been really fun."

"For Five Ghosts we have stumbled upon a world that has so many stories to tell.We have an issue coming out called Five Ghosts Special, and S.M. Vidaurri painted a whole issue for us It's very different - almost like a fairytale in our world, and it's very storied and mysterious. I'm very passionate about bringing people I like into comics. So that's the first spin-offy thing we've done."

"We're wrapping up on the third arc right now. Hopefully coming right back in the fall for #18. The fourth arc is really what I consider to be the end of book one, and we will keep doing the book lovingly and gladly as long as people want to read it. In June we're putting out a hardcover of #1-12, which has always been an aspiration of ours."

"It's all about the end product. Trusting your collaborators, and working with people you like. It's always a victory with getting across what you wanted to."

"I think the readership of comics has really grown past that. It's phenomenal there are readers out there that are just into the material and not big names. It's so nice that it works and that they actually read it. I think Image is really a company that takes a lot of risks, and there are a bunch of people out there that want different things. If people see passion in creators, people know it's going to be interesting because they care and it's the story they want to tell."