(James O'Barr)

The Crow all began with James O'Barr's dark saga of love and justice. An allegory about love, loss and retribution, THE CROW is a modern urban fable with Eric Draven coming back from the dead to help the living and avenge the dead, beacuse Eric and his fiancèe were killed by street thugs and the crow brought back Eric's soul. Eric now has to find the people that killed him and his fiancèe and kill them too.

Some of O'Barr's Work.

O'Barr on his comic book:

"Writing The Crow didn't help at all," he says. "I thought it would be cathartic, but as I drew each page, it made me more self-destructive, if anything. There is pure anger on each page, little murders. I was more messed up by the time I was done with the book. There was a rumor going around when there was a delay between the third and fourth issue that I had committed suicide. I was annoyed by that, because God's had his elbow on my neck for this long, I feel I can stick it out. I'm not ready to put a period on that sentence yet."

("Reliving the Pain" by Lisa Susser, May 13, 1994)