Interview with Andrez Bergen @ Chicago News - November, 2015

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"Writer Andrez Bergen does a bang up job—like always." 
 GEEKS OF DOOM

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Latest titles:
BULLET GAL
trade paperback 
TRISTA & HOLT
comic book series
TOBACCO-STAINED MOUNTAIN GOAT
comic book series

Words/pictures by 
ANDREZ BERGEN 

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OUT NOW.

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Andrez is reading:
Velvet. Hawkeye. The Fade Out. Black Science. The Spirit. Nausicaa. Avengers. Red Sonja. Day Men. That Bulletproof Kid. Enemy Ace. Iron Man. The Autumnlands. Bitch Planet. Descender. Old '60s Marvel comics


Andrez's all-time faves:

Artists: 
JACK KIRBY, WILL EISNER, JIM STERANKO, DAVID AJA, TARPE MILLS, BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH, KATSUHIRO OTOMO, MATT KYME, STEVE EPTING, WALTER GEOVANI, FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA, YUKITO KISHIRO, MATTEO SCALERA, SEAN PHILLIPS, TERRY GILLIAM, DADA & FRANK MILLER

Writers:
RAYMOND CHANDLER, RICHARD MATHESON, RYU MURAKAMI, ROD SERLING, DASHIELL HAMMETT, ED BRUBAKER, MATT FRACTION, STAN LEE, MICHAEL CHABON, ALAN MOORE, JOSS WHEDON, ROY THOMAS & SHUICHI YOSHIDA

Comic: 
DAREDEVIL #181

Comic cover: 
CAPTAIN AMERICA #109

Superhero: 
1960s THING (FANTASTIC FOUR)

Villain: 
MAKAKU (BATTLE ANGEL ALITA)

Aussie comic character: 
GINGER MEGGS

BIOGRAPHY

ANDREZ BERGEN is an expat Australian author, journalist, DJ, comic book artist, and ad hoc saké connoisseur who’s been entrenched in Tokyo, Japan, for the past 14 years. 

He makes music as Little Nobody and previously ran groundbreaking Melbourne record label IF? for over a decade, before setting up IF? Commix in 2013 in collusion with Matt Kyme.

The duo do a comic book together titled Tales to Admonish.

Bergen has also written for newspapers such as The Age and the Yomiuri Shinbun, as well as magazines like Mixmag, Anime Insider, Australian Style, Remix, Impact, 3D World and Geek Magazine.

He's published four novels: The noir/sci-fi novel Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat (2011), surreal slipstream/fantasy One Hundred Years of Vicissitude (2012), comic book, noir and pulp homage Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? (2013) and the gothic-noir mystery Depth Charging Ice Planet Goth (2014).

Bergen is current working on novel #5 (The Mercury Drinkers) and new comic book series Trista & Holt—based up the Tristan and Iseult legend.

In 2014 he unveiled his first graphic novel, a 144-page adaptation of Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat that Bergen both wrote and illustrated, along with the monthly comic book series Bullet Gal.

In 2015, all 12 issues of Bullet Gal have been collected together as a 348-page trade paperback. 

He's further published short stories and sequential yarns through Crime Factory, Shotgun Honey, Snubnose Press, Solarcide, Weird Noir, Big Pulp, 8th Wonder Press and All Due Respect, and worked on translating and adapting the scripts for feature films by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), Kazuchika Kise and Naoyoshi Shiotani, for Production I.G.

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Andrez's ongoing Top 5 comics in 2015:

• VELVET
• THE AUTUMNLANDS
• THE FADE OUT
• BITCH PLANET
• DESCENDER

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