Aaron Durán brings monsters, magic, and a Latina heroine to ‘Season of the Bruja’

Writer Aaron Durán is no stranger to the world of comics, “I mean if we go back far enough, I very likely learned to read by starting with comics.”

A storyteller at heart, Durán started blogging in the early-2000s exploring the intersections of “nerd” culture, entertainment and Pacific Northwest life on his site Geek in the City. Shortly after, a weekly podcast of the same name was born. But the draw of writing comics was never far from his mind.

“It’s the format of storytelling I always come back to,” he says. “I just love the storytelling opportunities that only comics can provide.”

Durán explained that with comics, there’s no budget to constrain the storytelling, providing nearly limitless possibilities.

“If you want to tell a sci-fi or fantasy epic on film, you’re not gonna get to unless you’re a Spielberg and even then he has to fight for it because it’s so expensive,” he says, “But comics don’t have that limitation — you can tell the most extravagant, outlandish, epic tale that you could possibly imagine, and you can dial it all the way down to incredibly personal one-on-one stories.”