Bill Willingham Joins Amtrak’s Residency Program
Amtrak has announced the 24 members of the literary community that will make up the first group for their Amtrak Residency program. The group will be working on their writing projects while enjoing a trip on Amtrak trains. Not shockingly the group is high profile enough to give the struggling Amtrak a boost in their profile.
Part of the group is a member of the comic community Bill Willingham, the writer and illustrator. You might know Willingham from his long running comic series from Vertigo, Fables, the novels Peter & Max, Down the Mysterly River and the forthcoming Lady of the Lake.
Very cool on his selection, and it’ll be interesting to see what he does during his trip!
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Did this on my own–26,000 miles over one year–and wrote the book “Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail.” I still do two or three long trips a year for work and pleasure. The train is a wonderful place to write and meet people. I hope some of these writers go beyond the romance of it and crtically examine the important role that passenger rail will play in America’s transportation future.
This should be interesting to see what they produce. When I looked at the program initially, it looked like it could be anything, and not necessarily Amtrak related, basically a moving office.