Unleashing The Escapist: It's Michael Chabon Day! New York Newsday talks to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author about bringing The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist to Dark Horse Comics:

"Surprisingly, Chabon released his protagonist to a number of other writers, who contribute original story lines for five of the comics in the book. (The Escapist will come out quarterly; future stories are to be penned by Chabon pals Glen David Gold, Jonathan Lethem and Dave Eggers, acclaimed novelists all.) Didn't the author worry about relinquishing creative control? 'I don't feel proprietorial,' Chabon explains. 'What appear in the novel are not actual comic books. They're narrative summaries, retellings of these purported comic books in prose form. The actual comics themselves, panel for panel, drawing for drawing, were not mine. In some weird way, the Escapist is not my character, he's Sammy and Joe's.'"