I was original Hit-Girl... now I’ll Kick Ass in comic world
HER father is one of the biggest names in the world of superheroes.
Now Emily Brooks Millar is following in the footsteps of Scots graphic novel creator Mark by publishing her own comic book.
And the Glasgow-based artist, 22, who is also staging her first art exhibition, has revealed how she inspired one of her father’s most famous characters – crime-fighting vigilante Hit-Girl.
Mr Millar, from Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, is the writer of titles such as Kick-Ass, Wanted and Kingsman, which became blockbuster movies.
Netflix paid £24.8million in 2017 for his Edinburgh-based firm, Millarworld, and he now makes comics, films and TV series for the streaming giant.
Ms Brooks Millar says Hit-Girl, played in the film version of Kick Ass by Chloë Grace Moretz, was ‘b ‘based on me as a child’.
She said: ‘There are scenes in the comic book where HitGirl’s dad takes her out on a superhero training mission.
‘When he was working on it my dad would take me out to do laps of the park and the same training exercises.’
Her new comic book, The Couch Ate My Brother, written with boyfriend Kriss Cummins, has an equally strong female protagonist.
She said: ‘It follows a girl called Ingrid who has fallen out with her brother Jamie. Their sofa eats Jamie and Ingrid has to go to the underworld and bring him back home.’
Her art exhibition, Nuns On The Run, brings together her love of Hollywood, horror films and religion.
She admits some of the depictions of nuns could shock people, adding: ‘Some of the more glamorous ones have a Charlie’s Angels feel to them.
‘This kind of double life, secret agent type thing.’