James O' Barr
James O' Barr Trivia
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Trivia
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James is the second American to be awarded the Storyteller Award by the International Comic Festival.
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The Crow graphic novel as sold more than a 1/4 million copies world-wide.
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The Crow is the best selling independent black and white graphic novel to date.
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James makes regular appearances at comic book conventions.
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The first issue of The Crow was published by Caliber Press in February, 1989.
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Eric's makeup is based on the Irony theater mask.
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Eric Draven, the main character in The Crow, is based on Peter Murphy, from the musical group Bauhaus.
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The Crow was published in graphic novel form published by Kitchen Sink Press.
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James had provided illustrations for other Crow comics which he did not write.
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James worked for a Detroit car body shop while working on The Crow comic book series.
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Italian Renaissance sculpture is a source of inspiration for James' drawings.
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James has had no formal art training.
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James was an orphan and was raised in the foster care system.
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James donated the money he made from The Crow film to various charities.
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James wished he'd never written The Crow when he learned of Brandon Lee's death.
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James admits that writing The Crow did not provide the catharsis he expected it would.
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James was living in Berlin, Germany in 1981 when he began writing The Crow.
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James joined the Marines after the death of his fiancée.
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James was born on January 1, 1960.
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James made a cameo appearance as a looter in the film adaptation of his comic book series.
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James wrote the comic book series entitled The Crow as therapy to deal with the death of his fiancée.
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James O'Barr (on how writing The Crow never brought the catharsis he was hoping for): As I drew each page, it made me more self-destructive, if anything. There is pure anger on each page.
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