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Nemone: Chat with creator of Kickass & comic writer Mark Millar

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17/02/2011

Chat with creator of Kickass & comic writer Mark Millar

BBC Radio 6 Music - Nemone, Chat with creator of Kickass & comic writer Mark Millar

Mark Millar, comic writer and creator of Kickass, chats about Glasgow film festival.

Mark Millar, comic writer and creator of Kickass, chats about Glasgow film festival, plus hear more from Gruff Rhys' Most Played tracks.

Mark Millar is a Scottish comic book writer. Millar was the highest selling British comic-book writer working in America in the 2000s. His best known works include The Authority, The Ultimates, Wanted, Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Civil War, and Kick-Ass. In August 2007, he won the Stan Lee award at Wizardworld in Chicago. Millar announced a new British comics magazine anthology in early May 2010 to be launched in September with the name CLiNT. It will feature a sequel to Kick-Ass, as well as work from Jonathan Ross and Frankie Boyle. He'll be talking to Nemone about the Glasgow Film Festival 

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