Julie Ditrich- short interview
BIO- Julie Ditrich is a fiction writer and comics creator, and is the first official Australian female Phantom comic book writer. She is the writer of The Phantom title The Adventure of the Dragon ’ s Leg, featuring the art of Wendell Cavalcanti. INTERVIEW- (1) When did you start writing comic books? I started writing comics in the mid 1990s after I graduated from university. I had completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree of Professional Writing but comics were never mentioned as a viable profession. I stumbled on the comics medium by accident and found that my storytelling style really suited comics. In fact, at university I was writing these epic fantasy screenplays for my film-writing subjects, which would have cost about $500 million to make at the time because the special effects needed hadn’t even been invented yet. What I didn’t realise was that I was actually writing comics stories. I just needed to make the mental connection. My first comic book series was published in the
