tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87240616328223102152024-03-13T19:04:27.889-07:00STAPLE! Community BlogWhere STAPLE! people come out to play!Mantonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11415549133628197743noreply@blogger.comBlogger259125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724061632822310215.post-71855305959753136992018-09-05T12:22:00.001-07:002018-09-05T13:38:34.152-07:00The Small Favor of Colleen Coover’s Small Press Comics<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Staplegator by Colleen Coover</td></tr>
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With lighthearted and playful art that portrays a wide range of emotions, <a href="http://www.colleencoover.net/">Colleen Coover</a> style can seem deceptively simple, but her Eisner Award-winning comics all came from the heart.<br />
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“I grew up reading comics,” Coover said. “I basically was reading comics straight out of the womb.”<br />
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When she and her older sister were young, they would collect and read the “returned” comics from their grandmother’s five-and-dime store. Before back issues became the norm, stores would remove covers and return them to publishers for refunds, throwing away the comic interiors, but Coover and her sister saved the junked comics from the trash.<br />
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“I was a voracious reader as a kid,” Coover said. “I just always naturally wanted to do comics, and I could draw a lot.”<br />
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While she initially struggled with the writing aspect of comic creation, she picked up skills when she met her future husband <a href="http://www.paultobin.net/">Paul Tobin</a>. While they worked at a comic shop, he would develop his scripting skills while Coover developed her storytelling abilities.<br />
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“Once we got together as a couple, we did some short pieces together on a book called ‘Attitude Lad’ that came out from Slave Labor Graphics,” she said. “I’d prefer that people forget it, because it’s really rough.”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Small Favors"</td></tr>
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She also noticed a need in the comic book industry. Women would order adult comics just as men would, from Roman Dirge's “Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl” and Jhonen Vasquez's "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" to more mature fair, but there was no existing “girly porno,” as she put it.<br />
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“This was adult entertainment for men to read,” Coover explained. “Women could enjoy it if they wanted, but it was with the understanding that they were peeking into the male gaze. I thought, ‘surely this could be done with women in mind.’”<br />
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This realization encouraged her to tell the story of curious Annie and magical Nibbil in “Small Favors,” recently collected and back in print. While she began with an inspiration from male-centric adult comics, the story morphed into a playful romance.<br />
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“Just having happy sex and having fun,” she laughed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"X-Men: First Class Special"</td></tr>
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From there, Tobin and Coover created the more family friendly “Banana Sunday,” which will soon be republished in color from Oni Press, and some work for Marvel, including the all-ages book “X-Men: First Class.”<br />
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Coover said it was important to her she not be pigeonholed as an “adult comics” artist, but she and Tobin didn’t want to leave the indie scene behind either.<br />
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“Together we did an ‘art film’ kind of graphic novel called ‘Gingerbread Girl,’” Coover said. “That was us keeping one foot in the alternate comics genre.”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Bandette"</td></tr>
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The couple’s current project is “Bandette,” a love letter of sorts to European comics they both admire.<br />
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“We wanted sort of a Nancy Drew with friends kind of character, but we didn’t want to make her a detective, we made her a thief,” Coover said.<br />
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While they were unaware of the French heroine Fantômette, they were honored when French readers said the good-natured thief Bandette reminded them of the classic heroine.<br />
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“We tried to make the most European comic that americans who don’t speak French could make,” Coover said. “She lives in kind of a not-Paris, and she fights international organizations while helping out the police while helping herself to priceless art and artifacts.”<br />
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Coover and Tobin’s “Bandette” stories can be found on ComiXology, but will be printed in hardcover through Dark Horse Comics.<br />
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“The great thing about digital publishing is that there’s no overhead,” Coover said. “When I started out way back in the ‘90s, you could sell comics but … you could expect to spend money and not make anything back.”<br />
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Coover added she’s excited to be headed to <a href="https://staple-austin.org/">Staple! Independent Media Expo</a>, her first Texas convention in years.kevingarcia.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11680334469508184920noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724061632822310215.post-36577351476239673822018-08-29T18:00:00.000-07:002018-08-29T18:00:07.099-07:00CAMINOS Teen ZINES<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://austintexas.gov/page/about-esb-macc-caminos"><em>CAMINOS</em> </a></b>is an immersive paid fellowship empowering Austin-area Teens to carve their own path in the creative arts. For a period of 12 months Students engage with various elements in a program which includes working with <a href="http://www.austintexas.gov/esbmacc"><em>ESB</em>-<em>MACC</em></a> professionals on-site, 1-on-1 artist mentorships, assignments with community organizations and participation at relevant workshops and cultural events. This process concludes with the execution of Student-led collaborative projects under the guidance of accomplished creative professionals.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcIgA07nrtkeyx-SBDqnGU3GJvbHAGn4ekgMrijQ9ElTLPsP2jnlScWAXq2DtnGyLy3oaF6U2Eq8XFyt3zQTHxOsqofuOy8fi723OFFf9yiG3N7LkSGvMaNi6sE127KA20Y65CZXqKA1Za/s1600/Caminos+Window+Trace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1272" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcIgA07nrtkeyx-SBDqnGU3GJvbHAGn4ekgMrijQ9ElTLPsP2jnlScWAXq2DtnGyLy3oaF6U2Eq8XFyt3zQTHxOsqofuOy8fi723OFFf9yiG3N7LkSGvMaNi6sE127KA20Y65CZXqKA1Za/s320/Caminos+Window+Trace.jpg" width="254" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our teens are passionate and curious about pursuing a career in the creative fields (fine arts, audiovisual arts, media, tech, etc) while also being ambassadors for <i>Latinx </i>social and cultural issues. They are motivated to explore their growing potential as a vibrant members of our city’s arts landscape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">The CAMINOS 2017 generation worked on a collective publication featuring powerful women in their own lives, and fictionalized narratives inspired in true events. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The CAMINOS teens of 2018 have been collaborating with <a href="https://jmuzacz.com/">J Muzacs</a> on a large scale mosaic that will be installed on the Hike and Bike trail in front of the ESB - MACC. They have also been working on a research-oriented digital magazine, writing articles pertaining to their individual passions. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My name is </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Brandon Muñiz </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and I’m 16 years old. I am a Latino who loves art and more specifically make up.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> In my community that is seen as a waste of time, yet I don’t listen to what people have to say. I am who I am. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Hello, my name is </span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ana Cristina Chavez Alvarado. </span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I am 15 years old. I am the first child of two Mexican parents,</span><br />
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> soon I will be the first to graduate from High School in my family and move on to my college career. I feel like I’m</span><br />
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> an opened minded person and I am interested in just learning new things in general. I take advantage of every</span><br />
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> opportunity that is given to me to learn new concepts and ideas. I decided to join the Caminos program because</span><br />
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> my dream career is to become an Architect which I feel has a lot to do with creativity within the arts. Caminos has</span><br />
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> helped me a lot to expand my idea/ definition I once had about art. I say the idea I once had because Caminos </span><br />
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">helped me see that art is a much more than just coloring or drawing, it is a complex and open content that can</span><br />
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> open further opportunities for myself in the future as a Architect. From Caminos I’ve learned many lessons, and </span><br />
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">most importantly, I’ve met professionals that I would not have been able to meet if I weren’t in the Caminos program.</span><br />
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Thanks to having met these professionals now I have their phone numbers in my contacts, I know that if I need a</span><br />
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> favor I can just give them a call and see if they can help me. With this I’ve kept in mind the quote; “It’s not what </span><br />
<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">you know, but who you know.” </span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My name is </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gabby Gonzalez</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, I’m 18 years old, and I’m a senior in high school. I’m very passionate about music, art, politics, and activism. With Caminos, I’ve enjoyed connecting more with my culture through what I’m most passionate about. I have also loved the experience of trying new creative things and learning something from everything we do in Caminos. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi my name is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Natalie Hernandez</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Im 17 and a senior in high school. I am passionate about social justice and education. I mentor at my school with at risk middle school girls. We work on leadership skills, anger management and character building. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NAVA</b> is a mexican-american artist, cartoonist, photographer, Augmented Reality pioneer and editor of the <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">international </span><a href="http://www.latinotoonscomix.com/" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Latino Toons Collective</b></a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Since 2017, he has been working with the CAMINOS program teens in </span>developing comics about their own experiences. <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">His works have been published internationally and he has participated in individual exhibits in Mexico, as well as group exhibits in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and the United States. In Austin, he has presented his collective</span>'<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">s work at <a href="https://vimeo.com/220327328">Nerd Nite</a> and other venues. The group</span>'s travelling exhibition, is slated to arrive in Austin to the ESB-MACC main gallery in fall of 2019. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5zV9bneoToouIcBhjU6xMxs8skDPVeNlP3rSVR-VgWs0s8fk6BylFL9pUL5anO8oRTf9eMGfy7OiHgvhXt12UiUiXfH5236et-N1StiyMqZakrj-azaDWjjWx_IdafhHwLDC9GHzC7Z4/s1600/BSP_006.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="675" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5zV9bneoToouIcBhjU6xMxs8skDPVeNlP3rSVR-VgWs0s8fk6BylFL9pUL5anO8oRTf9eMGfy7OiHgvhXt12UiUiXfH5236et-N1StiyMqZakrj-azaDWjjWx_IdafhHwLDC9GHzC7Z4/s400/BSP_006.png" width="262" /></a><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "" "arial" "" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><b><i>This is one of the
most overdue interviews I have. I found Andy’s work and Staple! back in Wizard
World Austin 2010 and he continues to impress year after year. As a storyteller,
Andy is a magician in the tradition that runs from Jack Cole to Jeff Smith. He ma<span style="background-color: white;">kes fast-paced motion and action (occasionally even p</span>hysics-defying action) seem <o:p></o:p></i></b></span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>seamless. He tells stories that have strong hooks and distinctive characters. Do yourself a favor and swing by his table at Staple tomorrow.</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="im" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">MH: </span></i><i><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">What are you bringing to Staple, and are you bringing your folio, debuting any new books, and/or prints?</span></b></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">AH:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My big debut for this year's show is a new entry in what I've started calling my Constructed Comics series. Previous ones have used side-scrolling frames, transparency effects, and fold-out 3D forms. </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">4-Way Stop</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> is a road trip story told in conflicting parallels, kind of a "Road Rashomon". I'll also have a bunch of dog stuff -- pennants! pins! -- in advance of </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Science Comics: Dogs,</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> my graphic novel out in October.</span><span class="im" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /><br /><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">MH: </i><i style="font-weight: bold;">One the things that stuck me about your work is how well you tackle a page a physical object. How do traditional page layouts influence your Constructed Comics and what things have you taken from Constructed Comics back to traditional page layouts?</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTNNAS742wLIYiTSdrvnjPLq6iWeh72KDp02pC76PPYYcv5TDQ1zzmZfmzdc2eGhEMScrT4uQFX1afK7u5Ds7fxLfazCQziIEsdWSQ_cYkMTOF1jNbXHRSmIXiWf22m7jeufR4cMkwpUw/s1600/AT-Lemongrab.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="675" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTNNAS742wLIYiTSdrvnjPLq6iWeh72KDp02pC76PPYYcv5TDQ1zzmZfmzdc2eGhEMScrT4uQFX1afK7u5Ds7fxLfazCQziIEsdWSQ_cYkMTOF1jNbXHRSmIXiWf22m7jeufR4cMkwpUw/s200/AT-Lemongrab.png" width="131" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">AH: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">None of the Constructed Comics so far have used the typical panel/page format. They're more about exploring ways to physically present a sequence. Like, if I reveal moments in </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">this</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> way, does that change the reader's role? Can it heighten a mood or make a joke land? Making them is my vacation from traditional comics, and I don't know that I've found anything that I </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">can</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> take back and forth between them. There are some things I can do with hand assembly that just aren't feasible at scale. We'll see what #5 brings!</span><br />
<i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></i><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">MH: </i><i style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;">What do you think are strengths of comics as an educational medium?</i></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1LDWadT9fhXnwt6mQVbLeUAgT9jY7RN2aNBPgJ0gTaIg6Ef0rpbGxxTRpdISsiaYgwR04wLCUzRzqgmVg7YCcg_GWCVrR520ww4e6amWrBJn4FJ7sjPTgfbKUhd4HcnS9LlLkyiwF5Kg/s1600/Garfield-LGB_007.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="675" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1LDWadT9fhXnwt6mQVbLeUAgT9jY7RN2aNBPgJ0gTaIg6Ef0rpbGxxTRpdISsiaYgwR04wLCUzRzqgmVg7YCcg_GWCVrR520ww4e6amWrBJn4FJ7sjPTgfbKUhd4HcnS9LlLkyiwF5Kg/s320/Garfield-LGB_007.png" width="210" /></a><b><i><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">AH: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Their biggest strength is that students want to read them. It sounds too basic to mention, but it's so much easier to teach something if students want to engage with it. Beyond that, they're more visually interesting than a textbook, you can control your own pace unlike a video, and they've got better jokes than your teacher. I think the Science Comics line in particular is great because they're contained, digestible amounts of material of which no two are the same. Have you read </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Science Comics: Volcanoes? </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It's a sci-fi dystopia, for crying out loud! </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dinosaurs</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> is as much a history of science itself. In </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dogs,</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> you come for the adorable host and stay for the surprisingly robust introduction to genetics. To my knowledge, the line is an utterly unique undertaking in educational literature.</span><span class="im" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /><br /><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">MH: </i><i style="font-weight: bold;">As a Dog owner, what was the most useful thing you learned working on the upcoming Science Comics: Dogs?</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">AH: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Body language! Communication is key to any good relationship, right? Learning the meanings behind how dogs hold each part of their body has really helped me understand what my dog is trying to say to me, and I'm a lot more conscious of what I might inadvertently be saying with my own posture and movements. We can communicate on the same level now! Making a play bow at a dog and having it be immediately, </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">enthusiastically</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> answered is just the best.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">MH: Baker Street Peculiars, The Royal Historian of Oz, and Varmints all have very large casts of visual distinct and expressive original characters. What are you secrets of character design?</span></i><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI5EmT_boM9kmuwKMVHMINQN5Zqym1XaXsk6Rt0Zu3Ohv-d66d_flAkzrt8uT456VGLkOp2m85V2_tCWrgUGGhPKYNkrIDjDpmA1if7RiPjpynmuPYJy3F_pJj0vsP56KeLqkmiaIqtuc/s1600/BSP-Cover1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="675" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI5EmT_boM9kmuwKMVHMINQN5Zqym1XaXsk6Rt0Zu3Ohv-d66d_flAkzrt8uT456VGLkOp2m85V2_tCWrgUGGhPKYNkrIDjDpmA1if7RiPjpynmuPYJy3F_pJj0vsP56KeLqkmiaIqtuc/s320/BSP-Cover1.png" width="210" /></a><b><i><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /></i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">AH: I was taught that the best way to differentiate characters is through silhouette. If their silhouettes are distinct, your characters will read no matter what size they are on a page. I also try to pay extra attention to characters' posture. For example, the Peculiars all hold themselves in different ways, and that tells you a lot about their personalities -- authoritative, shy, laid back, or whatever that may be. Personally, when I start a project I want to get right to drawing pages, but I'm continuing to learn that extra time and effort put in during the design phase really pays off.</span><span class="im" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /><br /><i><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">MH: What tips do you have for finding and maintaining an all ages audience? </span></b></i></span><br />
<span class="im" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">AH: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Get hired to draw Garfield? So much of my work has been on existing properties or, now, as part of a bigger series. It's much, much tougher with an original project. I hope by doing good work when I'm invited to those projects that already have an audience that some of them will follow me when I go off to do my original stuff. Building a relationship with publishers who know how to connect to these audiences helps, of course, but it's no sure thing.</span><span class="im" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /><i style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Are there any other Guests or Exhibitors you are looking forward to hanging out with at Staple?</span></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3aXA3dUXYaJQyKvjXchtqtv-UcH4OYRzif83ajhXegFRmCs9rVbR7rEqYaDQcs3uxQeNS3y9NXSkMPmJ6su7trmrNCKOANyGtPrCsIoXWdSaHCxSvXTOfP6zlCBqPgBcrtBVnRfHrbkg/s1600/Dogs_RGB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3aXA3dUXYaJQyKvjXchtqtv-UcH4OYRzif83ajhXegFRmCs9rVbR7rEqYaDQcs3uxQeNS3y9NXSkMPmJ6su7trmrNCKOANyGtPrCsIoXWdSaHCxSvXTOfP6zlCBqPgBcrtBVnRfHrbkg/s320/Dogs_RGB.jpg" width="225" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">AH: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I mean, everyone, right? Staple is home to so many of my favorite people. I'm particularly excited to be tabling back-to-back with the Skweegie Island guys - Austin Bedell, Chris Sweet, and Zach Taylor. Usual neighbor and super crafter Amanda Michael is going to have loads of cute new toys. Also, my good, good pal Kyle Starks is coming to Texas for the very first time, and he's gonna charm the socks off of everyone. He's a real special boy, Kyle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">https://twitter.com/ItsAndyHirsch</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12855869662504954236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724061632822310215.post-82713247957610038372017-09-04T07:05:00.000-07:002017-09-04T07:05:25.943-07:00Interview with Kyle Starks<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Eisner nominated writer/illustrator
Kyle Starks has written and drawn several hilarious graphic novels and a boat load of mini
comics in just the last few years. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">He has a strong presence
on the con scene and is still taking commission. You
can (and should) get a great crosses section of his creative output by clicking
over to <a href="http://kylestarks.com/">kylestarks.com</a>. As writer
and sometime artist, he is currently helming the ship that is Oni’s monthly </span><u style="font-family: inherit;">Rick
and Morty</u><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10.0pt;">MH: How do
you manage you process when you are writing and illustrating a book?</span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: inherit;">KS:</span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: Arial;"></span>When I'm writing for someone else I do a full script with
occasional layouts and reference stuff – normal comic writing stuff.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><br /></span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: Arial;">When I'm doing both the writing and the illustrating I don't do
any script. I spend a lot of time before one of my projects thinking about how
the story is going to go and what it is, so when it comes time to my story it's
just the way I want it. I will do a page by page outline per book but otherwise
everything is “written” on the page. This keeps it fresh and fun for me and
saves a step that for me as both writer and artist I don't think is really
necessary. Which isn't to say I never write anything – rarely, but sometimes I
have to work out dialogue exchanges – but I don't have a single scripts for <u>Rock
Candy Mountain</u>, <u>Kill Them All</u> or <u>Sexcastle</u>.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10.0pt;">MH: What is
the editorial process for <u>Rick and Morty</u>?</span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: Arial;">KS: I'm not super certain on the editorial side, per se, but I can
certainly share the gist of how a <u>Rick and Morty</u> book is made.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: Arial;">Basically, it goes like this: I have a story idea, I tell my
editor, she tells Cartoon Network and Justin Roiland, they always approve it,
then I write or draw it, then at the end it goes to Cartoon Network and Roiland.
Cartoon Network very rarely has any changes – mostly things to keep in line
with their all ages intent, Roiland I'm told only just laughs and laughs. Then
it goes through the steps of getting a comic made and back to Roiland and
Cartoon Network again. Mostly we just make the book within the Oni Team –
Cartoon Network and the creators almost never actually say anything, so it's
rarely a part of the process.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10.0pt;">MH: Do you
have any tips for people tabling at Artist Ally?</span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: Arial;">KS: This is a tough one. Make sure you have change (I probably
jinxed myself by saying that), have more than one item, get a table cloth, be
friendly. For me the most important thing not only tabling but day to day is
that I want as many people as possible to see me work and very few things sell
themselves. Also, try to have enough change.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10.0pt;">MH: How did
Chris Schweitzer get involved in <u>Rock Candy Mountain</u>?</span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: Arial;">Chris recently moved within an hour of me - maybe a year or two
ago - so as the only professional comic creators in the area we quickly became
fast friends. Chris, as you probably know, is an incredible, next level
cartoonist and not a colorist but while I was going through test pages with
prospective colorists it wasn't quite working like I wanted and I showed them
to Chris to get his advice. He decided he loved the book so much he would color
it and I'm forever thankful. He really brings life to the book that couldn't
exist without him.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10.0pt;">MH: What
advice would you give someone wanting to launch a comic on Kickstarter?</span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: Arial;">KS: Start small, be prepared, do you math, don't over do it. And,
personally, have the book done before you start. In my opinion, when someone
buys something they don't want to wait a year to get it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-size: 10.0pt;">MH: Are there
other exhibitors you are looking forward to hanging out with a Staple?</span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: Arial;">KS: I've been
wanting to do Staple for awhile specifically because of the number of creators
in the area who regularly attend the show that I absolutely adore. Andy Hirsch
I consider one of my best friends and in the discussion, in my opinion, for the
most underrated cartoonist in America. Robert Wilson IV is someone who's
friendship I legitimately prize who I've done a ton of shows with and am always
happy to see, Fabian Rangel Jr is the best dude and a real, impressive talent.
Alexis Ziritt is as nice as he is talented, Gavin Guidry is a solid dude who's
starting to make a name for himself. It's a great show and I'm looking forward
to meeting a bunch of new folks and hanging, for sure.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: inherit;">More stuff at ...</span></div>
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indie comic book fans, children, tweens, young adults, and lately Supper Hero
fans. To date she has earned two Eisner awards and an Ignatz award. She was
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direct-market (comic<br />
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<!--EndFragment--></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">HL: Traditional publishing and comics publishing are apples and oranges in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">almost every way. In my experience, I'm writing for two completely </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">different audiences; they hardly intersect at all. My graphic novels </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">are, for the most part, personal projects in a way that a book like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Batgirl can never be, so my editors and I are generally working </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">together to realize my vision in the best possible way, while also </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">making books that will connect with kids/tweens/teens. <u>Batgirl</u> is much </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">more commercial, and for better and worse comes with a built-in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">audience that has very specific expectations. I truly love writing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">both kinds of books. They stretch very different writing muscles.</span><br />
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MH: </span><!--EndFragment-->Who would you list as comic book influences?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">HL: I'm a long way into my career, so this is a weird question to get. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I've always hated the "influences" question. I love lots of comics, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">books, films, TV shows, but I wouldn't necessarily call them </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">influences. Being alive on planet Earth is my primary influence.</span><br />
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MH: </span><!--EndFragment-->How does your writing process differ when you write for an illustrator<br />compared to when you are illustrating the book yourself?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirkYKkdzkxT3cPQvmD2bY4IQ3E3xtlaQK_bsv2XUKpx1NxVqhkV3fABzDPLIe3SrGlWHEQx8qXmvdstI8DP6JLggVNCA0wf18cy0tqK25TFGDDTi65VuwSLM5uLCyXgGvQVjhTyNi3qC4/s1600/Knifes-Edge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirkYKkdzkxT3cPQvmD2bY4IQ3E3xtlaQK_bsv2XUKpx1NxVqhkV3fABzDPLIe3SrGlWHEQx8qXmvdstI8DP6JLggVNCA0wf18cy0tqK25TFGDDTi65VuwSLM5uLCyXgGvQVjhTyNi3qC4/s320/Knifes-Edge.jpg" width="215" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">HL: It doesn't, really, except that if I'm writing for myself I have to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">play to my weaknesses as a draftsman. Ideally I'd be writing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">characters floating in a void, haha. What I'm really saying is that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">it's easier to write in an unbridled way when you aren't the one who </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">has to execute it. Coming from cartooning, I'm very aware of when I'm </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">asking a lot of my artist (lots of crowd scenes, for example), and I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">try to balance things out on the page so they won't get too worn down.</span><br />
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MH: </span><!--EndFragment-->What did you see as the future of comics back when the <u>Flight</u><br />anthology came out, and how does it compare to the comics landscape of<br />today?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="im" style="color: #500050; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">HL: When <u>Flight</u> came out, the future I saw for myself was definitely indie </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">comics. Very, very arty stuff. I realized fairly quickly that I'd </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">rather be entertaining people, and the rest of my career has been an </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">attempt to marry my love of literary, lo-fi, emotional stories to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">commercial, action-packed, fast-paced stories. But I digress...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: #222222;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I don't think I understood the comics and publishing industry back </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">then, so I didn't have any expectations. I'm not even going to pretend </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">I know where it's going. I love doing monthly comics and graphic </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">novels, and I hope I continue to have both kinds of opportunities.</span><br />
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MH: </span><!--EndFragment-->Are there other exhibitors your looking forward to hanging out with a Staple?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">HL: Scanning over the exhibitor list, I don't personally know anyone! The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">only guest I know is Ngozi, and I don't think we've actually met in </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">person. I'm excited to meet some new folks and see what all the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">exciting up-and-coming comics are.</span><br />
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MH: </span><!--EndFragment--><span style="font-size: x-small;">Do you have any new projects you are willing to hint about?</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">HL: Sure! I'm still writing <u>Batgirl</u>, and I have a new middle grade graphic </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">novel, <u>All Summer Long</u>, coming out next year. Rebecca Mock and I are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">working on our third graphic novel together. And I have pitches in for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">a few different things in both traditional publishing and the direct </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">market, so I'm curious to see which projects "go".</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #500050; font-family: arial, serif; font-size: xx-small;">Here are links to were you can find some of her work, and some excellent interviews Hope.</span></span></span><br />
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We at STAPLE! are pleased to advocate for the Kickstarter for WE’RE STILL HERE. WE’RE STILL HERE is a comics anthology edited by longtime Friend of STAPLE! and former Rocksalt Magazine coeditor Jeanne Thornton, along with Tara Madison Avery, the publisher of Stacked Deck Press and coeditor of the Lambda-nominated ALPHABET anthology of comics by queer creators.</div>
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WE’RE STILL HERE features fifty-five stories, most of them appearing here for the first time, and all entirely by transgender writers and artists. Surprisingly, it’s the first anthology of its kind. Kickstarter funds will be used to print it and to pay the artists a reasonable page rate.<br />
Stacked Deck Press is offering good rewards with this project, including a set of gender “merit badges,” tote bags, and a Transgender Heroes coloring book. There are also early bird deals within the project’s first week. Jeanne and Tara are looking to raise $17,000 total, and the Kickstarter will run through August 18.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Danielle: </b>That's right, I was at that very first Staple show! Pittsburgh Comic Con in Monroeville was my very first convention, although I hadn't started <a href="http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/" target="_blank">GWS</a> yet when I began tabling there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sadly, I also have to pick shows that are financially worth my time, so I'm often beholden to the bigger shows. And admittedly, I'm partial to shows that my friends from far away are attending as well so that I have a chance to hang out with them. Good gluten-free food within walking distance is sometimes a make-or-break deal, too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The worst experiences have never been due to any malice or rudeness - it's just the inevitable loss of a box of books along the way, or arriving at your booth on day one to find that the chairs and tables weren't included in your very expensive booth order (I no longer attend that show!). Shipping problems are easily the worst, though! The first year of Webcomics Rampage at Dragon's Lair, I think every artist had some mix-up with their boxes. Someone along the shipping route stole David Willis' books and replaced them with half a blender. It wasn't even a whole blender! We couldn't even make daiquiris. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Friend and fan feedback is something you have to be careful with. I mean, so is peer feedback, for that matter; any advice you receive on your work, it's great to listen and get that outside perspective, but you have to let the final word be up to your editor-in-chief, which is you. You don't want your work to be written by everyone else. It's yours, so you have to follow your gut. If you have the time, it's really helpful to get feedback from people you trust and then leave the first draft out for a night, and approach it with a fresh brain in the morning. Or, y'know, whenever it is that you get out of bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Listening to fans is tricky, because they're living through your characters, so they want them to "win." If your characters win all the time, they'll become boring fleshpuppets that everyone wants to stick their hands in, but nobody wants to read about. And it makes them highly unbelievable, and thus unrelatable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, again, you have to give priority to your instincts. When I introduced Thea, people were pleading me to make her a more prominent character. I wanted that too, so I did it. When people cry out things like "get these two people to fall in love!" or "make this person do what the other person wants!" they're just voicing their desires (understandably! I do the same when I read or watch a movie). They may hope the story goes in that direction, but if the characters take the path without a genuine reason to do so, their story will feel empty, and your readers will become less invested in them. As a creator, your job is not to write a story and then drop some characters into it. Your job is to introduce some characters, and then let them tell their story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My main job, I guess, is to entertain people and to give them something pretty to look at. But ultimately, no matter what my job was, I'd be trying to get people to think about things like sex and sexuality, bodies, love, about how they view people who are different than them, about how they view themselves. (I'd probably be fired from a real job!) I've been pretty passive about it in GWS, but I think that's the best and most respectful way to offer your thoughts to people: by inviting them choose to think about these things on their own. I feel very lucky that so many readers have accepted that invitation, and shared their own thoughts with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I started GWS as a way to keep myself creating comic strips when I took a job at the local newspaper doing graphics and photography. At best, I hoped making the strip available online would help my future career as an illustrator or a web designer (I am decidedly <i>not</i> a web designer). At worst, it would give me a reason to continue courting my first love - comic strips - on a regular basis, by sticking to a publicly declared deadline. I'd had no expectation that it would become my full-time job, although I'm so glad that it did! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think a five-year plan is a dangerous idea for someone working in a field that relies on a platform as ever-changing as the Internet. Being flexible with my career goals is what allowed me to pursue webcomics more seriously. I might recommend a five-year <i>backup</i> plan, but even that would make me a hypocrite; I never had one myself. I was just making shit up along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Danielle: </b>I actually didn't know how it would end. I knew Hazel would visit her father, that needed to happen. But I figured I'd just go on writing it the same way I always had; the night before, and based on whatever had happened in the last strip. So I didn't have an end date or a perfect ending picked out. I think I knew it would end with Hazel and Zach. I believe I wrote the last several strips about a week before they were drawn, which is probably the earliest I'd ever written <a href="http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/" target="_blank"><b>GWS</b></a> strips before their publish dates!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Danielle: </b>I haven't even looked at the guest list yet!! Let me remedy that... wow, I barely recognize ANY of these names! That's actually really exciting! I see EK Weaver on there, and I'm looking forward to seeing Jamaica Dyer, whose face I haven't seen in eons. I always look forward to seeing Spike Trotman, but seeing as I'm bunking with her, that excitement was already cemented. And I was stoked to find out recently that my gal Monica Gallagher will be there! Monica is one of my only "local" friends (we're a little under two hours' drive from each other), so I get to see her every month or two, but there's really never "enough" Monica in one's life. And it looks like she's sitting just a few tables away from me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Danielle:</b> There was! Monica's strip is about roller derby, so it was a natural fit for her to borrow Mimi from my strip for a little while. She already had a Mimi in her strip, which I think created a brief riff between Mimis at first. I'll have to go back and re-read those strips so I can get the story straight!</span><br />
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Ontario-based cartoonist Emily Carroll draws upon myth, fairy tales, and fantasy to spin tales that range from bittersweet to downright terrifying. She's perhaps best known for her Eisner and Ignatz award-winning graphic novel, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Through-Woods-Emily-Carroll/dp/1442465964" target="_blank">Through the Woods</a>, an anthology of macabre fairy tales. The visual style within might resemble a lavish, children's picture book at first glance, but readers will find the bold colors offset by swaths of darkness, pitiless landscapes, and haunted characters. <a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/07/29/334077605/do-you-dare-to-venture-through-these-tangled-woods" target="_blank">Here's a lovely write-up from NPR</a>. </div>
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Emily also has plenty of content at her <a href="http://www.emcarroll.com/" target="_blank">own website</a>, where readers first took notice of her talent, including illustrations and full stories. She co-designed the choose-your-own-adventure video game, <a href="http://www.theyawhg.com/" target="_blank">The Yawhg</a>, and provided all its visuals. For younger readers, Emily illustrated Marika McCoola's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Baba-Yagas-Assistant-Marika-McCoola/dp/076366961X" target="_blank">Baba Yaga's Assistant</a>. Oh, and she also designed this year's awesome Staplegator - fear it!<br />
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<b>Horror can be a tricky thing in comics, which lacks the potent audio and motion of film and the enveloping nature of prose, but your horror comics have struck a deep chord with readers. What is it you’re doing that’s getting under people’s skin?</b><br />
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When I begin a new story, I usually focus on some stripped down, basic fear, something like <span style="background-color: transparent;">helplessness, isolation, personal worthlessness, etc, something basically everyone has had experience with, and the primary function of all the details that come after are to serve/heighten that core fear. I try to focus more on building dread, often using a lot of emotional cues along the way, rather than relying on things like gore and "shock" panels (though I like to use those too, they can be fun, and I've certainly enjoyed them in other works). I also don't tend to write a catharsis into my comics, and the characters almost invariably lose (or at least don't win), so ideally that might give readers a lingering sensation of the creeps.</span></div>
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<b>Your first graphic novel, Through the Woods, was a runaway success and earned multiple awards. How has that success affected your life and work?</b><br />
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It has definitely made me more confident, if only to combat the increase of anxiety and imposter dread that has been creeping more and more into my bones the past few years. In my experience success never feels as real as the imminent fear of failure does. </div>
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As far as how it's affected my work though, I think it's marked a period of time when I was really into using fairy tales and period settings in my comics, and while I still do a bit of that, since the book came out I've been using more modern settings and formal layouts, not to mention incorporating more dialogue (vs relying so much on narration) into my scripts.<br />
<b><br />What are the artistic influences that led to your singular style?</b><br />
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When I first started comics, I was really into Joann Sfar (I think I straight just leaned into copying him for awhile), but since then I've added bits and pieces of other artists to various stories, depending on the comic. There's one that is based explicitly on the work of H.J. Ford, and for another I used 1930s fashion catalogues as inspiration for character design. I'd say two constants are Junji Ito and Charles Keeping, though.<br />
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Oh, for sure. My first mini-comic was directly inspired by the roleplaying I'd done, designed as a series of seven random minicomics that could be read in any order, so that ideally the reader would feel ownership (or at least a strong connection) to one particular character over the other. Other comics, like Margot's Room, were set up in a similar game-inspired way, where the reader had to click on certain items onscreen in order to 'unlock' comics.<br />
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As for games I personally play, some of my favourites are Crusader Kings II, Fallout, and right now I'm replaying the Dragon Age series. I like games with enough story to keep me interested, but that I can also build on in my own head, so that my experience with them will be unique compared to anyone else's. I've also worked on a couple of games: I co-created The Yawhg with Damian Sommer, which is a short 4-person story game, and I did some artwork for Gone Home by the Fullbright Company.<br />
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<b>Online comics and illustrations built your initial readership and you continue to produce them alongside print comics - how do you strike a balance between those worlds?</b><br />
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I'm asked this question a lot, and I guess I don't give this distinction the amount of thought that people expect -- I don't worry about maintaining a balance, for instance. I began to make web comics just because it was easier than figuring out how to put something in print (I really don't have a head for sorting out print costs, print optimization, distribution, etc) and moved into print once I began to have publishers who would do that work for me, or at least help me along.<br />
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These days it actually breaks down pretty simply: Web comics are what I do on my own, to experiment and (more often than not) to relieve stress while I am working on larger print projects, and print projects are where I tend to collaborate with other people (and where I actually make any money). In a way I suppose that my web comics promote my work, so that hopefully people will want to support anything that comes out in print.<br />
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Right now I'm working on the graphic novel of "Speak", the book by Laurie Halse Anderson, and though that will be my major project for the foreseeable future, I'm still probably going to put out a few small personal things here and there too!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">C. Spike Trotman</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was born in DC, grew up in MD, and lives in IL. She runs <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://ironcircus.com/" target="_blank">Iron Circus Comics</a></span>,
Chicago’s largest comics publisher, and is responsible for <i>Poorcraft</i>, <i>The Sleep of
Reason</i>, <i>New World</i>, the <i>Smut Peddler</i> series, and the webcomic <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://templaraz.com/" target="_blank">Templar, Arizona</a></span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Kickstarter early adopter, her projects have raised nearly half a
million dollars in funding and earned multiple awards. Her achievements are
just of few of many like it in the independent publishing world, a world
reinvigorated by online comics, diversifying audiences, increased access and
crowdfunding. In case you couldn’t tell, she’s a big fan of where things are
going. She talks a lot, thinks a lot, means well, and shouldn’t be taken too
seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you've gone from starting your first webcomic, <i>Templar, Arizona</i>, to being able to call yourself "Chicago's
largest comics publisher." What drove you to expand from being a
cartoonist to also become a publisher of others' work?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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persuasive reasons were probably a combination of wanting to help other
cartoonists like myself, folks who were producing the kind of comics I wanted
to read but didn't necessarily have the time or inclination to deal with the
administrative side of self-publishing, and just plain not seeing on enough of
the kind of comics I wanted to read in the world. This isn't a slam against
other publishers, far from it. But all publishers, major league and small press
alike, have finite budgets and editorial preferences. And I decided to stop
wishing a publisher somewhere out there would publish books to my taste and
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Comics pioneered the practice of including bonuses for the creators involved in
your Kickstarter projects. The current </b><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/the-smut-peddler-double-header" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: blue;">Smut Peddler Double Header Kickstarter</span></a><b> (</b><i><b>note:
as you might imagine, this link may be NSFW</b></i><b>) upped the ante by putting the
bonus into an increased page rate instead of a flat rate per participant. What
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artists on the projects I organize being rewarded in accordance with how much
work they put in seems to be the fairest, most equitable way to go about
things. Frankly, the way I structured the previous bonuses simply didn't take
into account how much some a Smut Peddler Kickstarter could make, and while I
love paying my participants, paying folks more if they DID more is the superior
approach. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Kickstarter has been such a success, how does it feel to be able to pay the
creators what will be a very competitive page rate for indie comics? (At this
writing, $105 per page and rising!) Do you think other crowdfunded comics will
follow your example?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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set an example for others to follow, do things they maybe haven't thought of
doing and prove they're viable, that's just icing on the cake. It's ridiculous
that professional comic projects—high-budget, high profile, for-profit webcomic
and anthology projects—can get away with payment-optional models. It genuinely
disgusts me. Artists and writers are why comics get to exist at all, and too
often, they're exploited. "Aren't you lucky to work on this project? Isn't
it a privilege? Won't it be great exposure?" Ech. This is something I harp
on constantly because I know what it's like to be undervalued and ripped off
and told I should love it, this is just the way things are. I never want anyone
who works for me to feel that way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I've been a fan of Baker since college. I tell people I had a poster of her on
my dorm room wall, but that's not accurate; I had a poster of her <i>leaning
against</i> my dorm room wall, still shrink-wrapped to its cardboard backing,
because I didn't want to ruin it by removing it from its packaging and pinning
it up. THAT'S how I felt about her. I loved the idea of a woman who told an
entire nation to kiss her ass and sought her fortune thousands of miles abroad.
(I'll admit, I had the pop-culture, detail-light perception of her life back
then.) And then, twenty years later, First Second wrote me and asked me if I
might be interested in working on a biography about her! Luck and being in the
right place at the right time played a big part. I'd made it clear in the past
that I'd love to work with First Second, and they just happened to propose a
project I felt REALLY strongly about!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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erotica, do you hope it will be carried by more mainstream comic shops and
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh sure, obviously! That's the big
advantage of publishing with someone else, isn't it? The resources they can
bring to the table. Someone else to handle promotion, distribution, printing,
pre-press. It'll be an adventure, for me! And while non-pornographic work is
nothing new, non-pornographic work someone else will be handling the
nuts-and-bolts aspects for is. I'm kinda excited to see how a big-deal
publisher takes care of its creatives. I mean, do I get a book tour? I've never
had one of those. That would be nice!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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first time as a guest at STAPLE!, but not your first trip to Austin. Is there
anything you're particularly looking forward to while you're in town (other
than the con itself)?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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"friends and food?" I have a few pals in and around Austin, like
cartoonists E.K. Weaver, and since she's a local, she knows all the good places
to eat. Last time she took me to an amazing ramen place, I'm hoping for a
repeat performance!</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Annie Bulloch is co-owner of <a href="http://www.8thdimensioncomics.com/" target="_blank">8th Dimension Comics & Games</a> in Houston, Texas, and a contributor to <a href="http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/author/annie-bulloch/" target="_blank">Women Write About Comics</a>. "She's also totally awesome!", declares Uncle Staple.</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Houston based Mark Nasso is a comic maker and illustrator. He has been self-publishing and distributing his fantasy series <u>The Land of Rats</u> for 6 issues so far, and founded the Texas based horror anthology <u>Doom Ranch 5000</u>. Mark's amazing set up of comics and prints has been in </span><span style="font-size: large;">artist alley</span><span style="font-size: large;"> across Texas. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span><span style="font-size: large;">ou can see more of Mark's wor</span><span style="font-size: large;">k <a href="http://nassodesign.net/">http://nassodesign.net</a>, and <a href="http://www.theundergroundforest.com/">http://www.theundergroundforest.com</a>.</span></span><br />
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While not making comics, Dungeons & Dragons also had taken over my life which sparked the interest in the fantasy genre. Then during another phase I was reading a lot of world history and The Bible. I think all of this finally coalesced into <i>Land of the Rats </i>which is about a race of hybrid rat-humans in an otherworldly fantasy setting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A few years later I was introduced to Dave Sim’s <i>Cerebus</i> and Joseph Michael Linsner’s <i>Dawn </i>which I think anyone will tell you are only Swords & Sorcery on the surface. Those guys are using that genre to explore many topics that you wouldn’t find in typical Swords & Sorcery comics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I may not be the one to ask about what’s currently on the shelves. But once again, I was very inspired by <i>Cerebus </i>and<i> Dawn.</i> Anything <i>Heavy Metal</i>. I think <i>Conan</i>, <i>Slaine</i>, and <i>Elfquest</i> are no-brainers. I recently met Devin Kraft and am looking forward to seeing him at Staple. I need to either download or pick up a copy of his fantasy book, <i>Dragon Slayer</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It’s a little of both. <i>Land of the Rats</i> has five issues published with the sixth in the works. I have a history written that goes into detail about the cultures, wars, and other events that occurred before the main story arc. It’s by no means on a Tolkien level but I use it as reference to make sure what I’m writing works and doesn’t contradict a previous chapter. And, along the way, new stories emerge. The collected edition of <i>Land of the Rats </i>has four stories with the first chapter being the one that was created most recently. So as the story progresses you’re watching my art go backward in time. I’m always jumping around in the timeline fleshing out the world in prequels, sequels, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I don’t work from a Marvel Comics script format but I still arrange my panels and dialogue in the computer. On a sketchpad I do thumbnails and pin them up on the wall and then move them around to see what works. Obviously, you can’t lay out a page without thinking about how it fits into the greater composition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I try to give all of the covers for <i>Land of the Rats </i>a consistent look and the current five are painted traditionally with acrylic on canvas. The interior is done like most comics with ink on bristol board. I use a brush for most of my heavy lines and various markers and pens for the details.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcyDJvMALMQrZIOgbeyvqQ7fknFTEti6e71XztBN8zV3XSVz8kUCH1mNGKsT6dYsYuOyqsSvjB-hZmTgozKnm8QVsTq5BIdcJNWq-KCfqKP6G8XAXiFkOh1nYL8ZaGqitQ2y48J4EFsI/s1600/1374123_663121990379453_1551216302_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcyDJvMALMQrZIOgbeyvqQ7fknFTEti6e71XztBN8zV3XSVz8kUCH1mNGKsT6dYsYuOyqsSvjB-hZmTgozKnm8QVsTq5BIdcJNWq-KCfqKP6G8XAXiFkOh1nYL8ZaGqitQ2y48J4EFsI/s1600/1374123_663121990379453_1551216302_n.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There are always the usual suspects and friends that you see at every Staple. I don’t want to leave anyone out but some names that we’ve seen previously that have a unique quality to their art and table design are J. Michael Stovall, Chris Ruggia, and Chris Sweet. I’m interested in people that approach things differently from how I would do them. Guys like Robert Stikmanz and Bram Meehan are always positive and supportive of other artists. I hear Mark Nasso is pretty cool.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12855869662504954236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724061632822310215.post-89387973315443533952015-03-01T08:33:00.001-08:002015-03-01T09:37:59.579-08:00The Flight of the Valkyries<h2>
The Flight of the Valkyries<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peter Nicolai Arbo - Valkyrie, 1865 </td></tr>
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<em>or: How We Got Janelle Asselin to STAPLE!</em><br />
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by Uncle Staple<br />
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Synergies - they're awesome. We have some great synergies working this year on the <a href="http://staple-austin.org/2015-guests/" target="_blank">STAPLE! guest list</a>. Most of these talented ladies already know each and are friends, some have collaborated together as well. For example, Kate Leth did all the scout badge designs for <a href="http://staple-austin.blogspot.com/2015/02/an-interview-with-lumberjanes-writer.html" target="_blank">Lumberjanes</a>, the comic by our other guests Grace Ellis, Brooke Allen and Shannon Watters. <br />
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Kate also started <a href="http://bewarethevalkyries.com/" target="_blank">The Valkyries</a>, an affiliation of women who work in comic shops, and some of those Valkyries helped us get Janelle Asselin to STAPLE! I shall explain. <br />
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Around the time of Denver Comic Con I saw that Janelle was doing a panel there called Hire This Woman, based on her <a href="http://comicsalliance.com/tags/hire-this-woman/" target="_blank">Comics Alliance column</a> of the same name, which included, among others, my friend Jamie Kinosian (who has also been featured in the <a href="http://comicsalliance.com/hire-this-woman-artist-jamie-kinosian/" target="_blank">column</a>). I thought, especially since we are focusing on women in comics this year, that it would be awesome to get Janelle here to do the same panel with some Texas-based female creators. I asked Jamie to put me in touch with Janelle, which she kindly did. <br />
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Happily, Janelle was available that weekend and interested in the idea, we just had to find a way to cover her travel. STAPLE!'s usual sponsors (local comics shops Austin Books, Rogue's Gallery and Dragon's Lair) were already committed to bringing in our other guests, so I couldn't ask them for more help. I talked to a couple shops in Houston, and they weren't able to do it either, at least not in full. <br />
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So, I was chatting with my friend <a href="http://hardcorenudoty.com/" target="_blank">Meredith Nudo</a> about this conundrum and she came up with the brilliant idea of reaching out to the Valkyries to ask for assistance. Meredith, among her many other credits, is a Valk herself, and knew that they would be excited about having Janelle at the show, and likely willing to chip in to help make it happen. As it turned out, she was right. <br />
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I asked her to take the lead and she diligently went about securing enough donations to completely pay for the cost of Janelle's flight, thereby making Janelle's appearance, and our own <a href="http://staple-austin.org/2015-schedule/hire-this-woman/" target="_blank">Hire This Woman</a> panel possible. <br />
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These are the Valkyries (and a couple non-Valks) who contributed to the fund:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Meredith Nudo - <a href="http://www.popandschlockpod.com/" target="_blank">Pop & Schlock Podcast<o:p></o:p></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
Annie Bulloch - <a href="http://www.8thdimensioncomics.com/" target="_blank">8thDimension Comics & Games</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
Alva Coto & Jessi
Jordan - <a href="http://third-planet.com/" target="_blank">Third PlanetSci-Fi Superstore</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
Sarah Simes - <a href="https://twitter.com/allaloam" target="_blank">@allaloam</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
Leia Calderon - <a href="http://www.sub-cultured.com/author/leia/" target="_blank">SubCultured</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
Jesus Garza - <a href="http://spacecitynerd.com/" target="_blank">SpaceCity Nerd</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
Danni Danger - <a href="http://www.weird-girls.com/" target="_blank">WeirdGirls!</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<a href="http://www.bedrockcity.com/store/" target="_blank">Bedrock City ComicCompany</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p>I am deeply indebted to them and humbled by their willingness to help, and very touched by the sense of community and coming together to make this happen, which is part and parcel of what STAPLE! is all about. Connections, synergies, cooperation, community. </o:p></span><br />
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We reached out to that community and asked some of our guests, panelists, and friends to tell us what they felt was good about STAPLE!'s focus on women and diversity this year, and this is what they had to say:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Janelle Asselin,
Comics Alliance:</b> “I think the easy answer is that it matters because no one
ever thinks twice about all the guests at a convention being guys, but
diversity - even just having things like panel parity - is seen as something
that requires an extensive amount of effort. Staple has put together a guest
list that seems to excite attendees that just happens to be entirely female
without what seems like a whole lot of effort. It’s a great model for other
conventions who might be afraid of too much effort - not only is it not that much
effort, but it also does nice things for your reputation.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(</span><a href="http://comicsalliance.com/tags/hire-this-woman"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://comicsalliance.com/tags/hire-this-woman</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">See bio for Janelle
at: </span></i><a href="http://staple-austin.org/2015-guests"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://staple-austin.org/2015-guests</span></i></a><br />
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<a href="http://staple-austin.org/hire-this-woman" target="_blank">Hire this Woman Panelists</a>:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Maria-Elisa Heg:</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It's really exciting to see so many amazing
women getting the recognition they so richly deserve, and an honor to included
alongside such talented individuals.” </span><a href="http://ohdonteven.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://ohdonteven.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://zinefesthouston.org/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://zinefesthouston.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jeanne Thornton:</b> “No
one can represent a group like a member of that group: if you want believable,
recognizably human women in comics, then women must make those comics. The more
humanity we have in the comics--the more comics exist where women can see
ourselves legitimately represented, the more comics exist in which men can see
women as subjects who have distinct experiences, ideas, and goals that maybe
have nothing to do with said men--the better off everyone is going to be. A
century overdue.” </span><a href="http://fictioncircus.com/Jeanne"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://fictioncircus.com/Jeanne</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">C. M. Bratton:</b> "It's
somewhat mind-boggling how women have been portrayed throughout comic history -
both in storylines and as creators. I read an article recently that spoke about
how nearly all women employees of comic companies were fired when men came back
from WWII. We're talking editors, writers, artists, colorists - you name it.
And since then, the industry has never quite recovered in terms of equality
between genders. But women liking and buying comics is nothing new at all. And
women producing comics is just as normal, which is why we deserve equal
respect." </span><a href="http://www.cmbratton.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.cmbratton.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>C.M. was also recently interviewed by Janelle: </em><a href="http://comicsalliance.com/making-the-reader-root-for-the-villain-an-interview-with-writer-c-m-bratton-hire-this-woman/"><em>http://comicsalliance.com/making-the-reader-root-for-the-villain-an-interview-with-writer-c-m-bratton-hire-this-woman/</em></a></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">- See bios for these panelists at: </span></i><a href="http://staple-austin.org/hire-this-woman"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://staple-austin.org/hire-this-woman</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Meredith Nudo:</b> "STAPLE!'s
guest list this year reflects how women are by no definition a niche within the
comics industry. We're readers, writers, artists, editors, journalists,
organizers, publicists, retailers...we ARE comics. We've contributed since the
beginning, but historically received less recognition."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://hardcorenudoty.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://hardcorenudoty.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>- Meredith Nudo is the Comics Editor of <a href="http://dorkshelf.com/" target="_blank">Dork Shelf</a>, event organizer at Third Planet Sci-Fi Superstore (comics shop in Houston), a podcaster, a blogger, a zinester, an editor, and general all around badass. She was instrumental in helping to crowd-fund Janelle Asselin’s appearance through the Valkyries. She'll be moderating Janelle's "Pitching Comics" panel at STAPLE! <o:p></o:p></em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Danni Danger, Weird Girls:</b> “Indie
comics are tricky game: pouring your creative energy to a project, working with
limited resources, self-motivating? Just listing those things makes me tired.
On the other hand, indie comics are some of the best indicators of what new,
fresh outlooks readers want. This year's STAPLE! guest list reflects one of the
industry’s biggest demands today: female creators. Bring on the ladies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Part of what makes this year’s STAPLE! lineup so powerful
for me is a small sampling of the collective voices of independent female
creators are reaching out to the world, telling other women "I can do this
and so can you." It's so much easier and less frightening when you watch
other women like you doing it and changing the industry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I like to think that we'll look back on this time as the
beginning of the great emergence of talented women in this industry, and the
idea of STAPLE! being a part of that, right here in my backyard gives me hope,
and a good deal of pride.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.weird-girls.com/danni-danger"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.weird-girls.com/danni-danger</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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Uncle Staplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410312467764725425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724061632822310215.post-45738593249023960042015-02-28T19:53:00.001-08:002015-02-28T19:53:10.840-08:00Staple! 2015 "The Spirit" Will Eisner Tribute Preparation<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X1cUiS-cwoc" width="480"></iframe><br />Uncle Staplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410312467764725425noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724061632822310215.post-82363189160371726362015-02-24T19:38:00.000-08:002015-02-24T19:38:06.451-08:00An Interview with LUMBERJANES Writer Grace Ellis and Artist Brooke A. Allen<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.0pt;">
<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">By <a href="http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/author/annie-bulloch/" target="_blank">Annie Bulloch</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Grace Ellis is a
writer most well-known for co-creating <i>Lumberjanes</i>
and her work on the site Autostraddle. She is a proud native of wondrous Ohio
and when she’s not coming up with amazing mix-tapes, she’s most likely enjoying
nature and the great outdoors. </span><span style="background: white; color: windowtext;"><a href="http://ohheygrace.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">http://ohheygrace.tumblr.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;">Brooke Allen is a cartoonist/illustrator spending most days in DC with her best pup Dog Linus drawing <i>Lumberjanes</i> and doing covers and shorts for glorious things like <i>Regular Show</i>, <i>Adventure Time</i>, and <i>Bravest Warriors</i>.</span><span style="line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; line-height: 18.6666660308838px;"><a href="http://brookeallen.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">http://brookeallen.tumblr.com</a></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJa2AueKGz3_L7TNmuSoTShZPvaiTXd62FLbKhaveEqVxZGuZcIYZq1O8aGp62kLF8-GmHbeYNZDV02O2deaKAhVX4vjF1Z5w_TMC2i99css6_tsRjMwzxeas2sxgciydqhjacTEO-dSQ/s1600/Lumberjanes+%231+cover+A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lumberjanes #1 Cover A" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJa2AueKGz3_L7TNmuSoTShZPvaiTXd62FLbKhaveEqVxZGuZcIYZq1O8aGp62kLF8-GmHbeYNZDV02O2deaKAhVX4vjF1Z5w_TMC2i99css6_tsRjMwzxeas2sxgciydqhjacTEO-dSQ/s1600/Lumberjanes+%231+cover+A.jpg" height="320" title="Lumberjanes #1 Cover A" width="213" /></a></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When it launched in
2014, <i>Lumberjanes</i> became an immediate
hit for BOOM! Studios, and remains one of the publisher's bestselling original
series. <i>Lumberjanes</i> was created by
writers Grace Ellis and Shannon Watters, who then brought in artist Brooke A.
Allen and co-writer Noelle Stevenson to round out the creative team. Allen,
Ellis and Watters are guests at STAPLE! 2015.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lumberjanes</span></i></b><b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a true all-ages title, with readers ranging from
elementary school kids to adults. Is it a challenge to find the right tone</span></b>—<b><span style="background: white;">both in the
writing and the art</span></b>—<b><span style="background: white;">to keep it
accessible and engaging for such a broad audience?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>Grace Ellis:</b>
I don't think so. I mean, from where I'm sitting, the only difference between
all-ages media and media "for adults" is that you have to cut out the
sex and violence and swearing, in most cases. (And honestly, that's a good
writing technique anyway, since I can't tell you how many writing classes I
took where people relied on so much on sex and violence to make their stories
interesting that it actually became uninteresting; those things work best when
they're used with a lot of intention. Anyway.) The most important thing for me
is to tell a compelling story. Kids are smart. They'll keep up with you without
you stooping to what you think their level is, and I think because <i>Lumberjanes</i> doesn't stoop at all, we
were able to find an adult audience as well as a younger audience.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lumberjanes also contains many references to <br />famous feminists, who can be Googled if necessary!</td></tr>
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Another thing
we're trying to do with <i>Lumberjanes</i>—since
the world of the story is intentionally rooted in a world that not only shares
our frame of pop culture but also references it like we do—is to make sure
there's no penalty for not getting all the pop culture references. Like even if
you've never seen <i>Terminator</i>, you
know it's funny when someone says, "come with us if you want to not get
eaten by a raptor." So I think for me, that's really the biggest challenge
in writing this particular book, since it's all-ages: finding the line where
something is funny to everyone but there's also almost a bonus joke if you're
well-versed in pop culture.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Brooke A. Allen: </b>For me, it's been a breeze because I work from
the scripts so really the only censorship that happens on my end is to hold off
on making things look too scary or too adult but rarely (if ever) have I been
in a situation where I think, “Oh, maybe I drew that too gory.” I do remember
one time in one of the first few issues ,when I was still grappling with how to
draw the characters and render the surroundings, there's Mal and Molly's CPR
smooch that I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to draw, and it was a
combination of trying not to make it look sexy (because it's an innocent
situation) and then just trying to figure out how their weird lil’ faces fit
together. Style-wise, I think it was a bit of a struggle for me also to break
away from naturally wanting to over-render things and in turn keep the
characters more streamlined, which is a different kind of censorship, but
visually I think it can be the difference between what's appealing to young
readers and what's appealing to adults. So finding the right visual blend of
easy readability, complexity, and humor that makes it approachable for any age
group is the balancing act.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Absolutely. I wasn't expecting many people to read it at all, but I'm delighted
that people seem to dig it! Sometimes I have to work to convince myself that
this isn't just Shannon playing an extremely elaborate prank on me. BUT IF IT
TURNS OUT THAT IT IS: I knew it and I'm onto you, Watters.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I knew Noelle and Grace had fan bases and I hoped their fans would pick it up,
but I certainly wasn't expecting the response it got. It was a little
overwhelming, but in a good way!<o:p></o:p></div>
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influences on your work?</span></b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>GE: </b>When
I need to get psyched up to write <i>Lumberjanes</i>,
I read a bunch of riot grrl zines or old school Girl Scout handbooks and listen
to the <i>Gravity Falls</i> extended theme
song on repeat while I text Shannon. But I think the biggest influence on the
series hasn't been any one thing in particular, but the <i>lack</i> of things
and the void this series is kind of constructed to fill. This series is a lot
of wish fulfillment; we're lucky enough to be making exactly the series we
would've wanted when we were kids, but there was never anything like it when we
were growing up, definitely nothing with real live lesbian characters. So
really, the biggest influence on <i>Lumberjanes</i>
has been all the stories that we wish existed. And also ‘90s tomboy characters,
that trope was influential too. And Taylor Swift! Just in general. As a human.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>BAA: </b>Cartoons
and animation, especially the ones I grew up with like all of the old Cartoon
Network and Nickelodeon toons, Disney movies, Don Bluth films like <i>All Dogs Go to Heaven</i> and <i>The Secret of NIMH</i>, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera,
if it was animated I loved it (except <i>Spawn</i>...anything
but <i>Spawn</i>). Comics-wise, I draw a lot
of inspiration from people like Chynna Clugston, Bastien Vives, Walt Kelly,
Claire Wendling, and Christophe Blaine just to name a few (it's a long list). And
nature. Nature is the best.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lumberjanes</span></i></b><b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> originally was conceived as an eight-issue miniseries, but
once it was clear the book was a hit, it was changed to being an ongoing
series. What effect did that have on the structure of <i>Lumberjanes</i>' first story arc? Would the miniseries version have
ended with the same revelations?</span></b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>BAA:
</b>This is probably better answered by
Grace, Noelle, and Shannon but I think the miniseries probably would have ended
very much the same, maybe answering a few more questions, but overall pretty
similar because I think the first arc was pretty much realized. And then we
found out soon after the first issue that it would be ongoing and that gave the
first arc a little more room to breathe, but I think key elements of it stayed
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<b>GE: </b>Someone
put a bug in our ear really early in the process that it was possible that <i>Lumberjanes</i> would get picked up as an
ongoing, so we started leaving tiny threads we could pull if we did get picked
up and were able to expand the world a little more. So the first arc would've
been approximately the same: it was designed to be really episodic and full of
fun camp times and friendship before revealing there was a bigger mystery. But
now that we have more time, we can worry about the even bigger mystery of
what's actually going on at the camp in a broader sense. It's one thing to know
that there's something cosmically strange about this place, but it's another to
delve into why and how it's affected the camp in the past, present and future,
you know? I'm really excited about it. There's a lot of really cool stuff in
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a Hardcore Comic Creator Type merit badge for a new skill you've mastered in
the year since <i>Lumberjanes</i> launched,
what would it be?</span></b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>GE: </b>I
want the Patience Makes Perfect badge! It's tough being a writer because your
work happens SO LONG before the finished product hits the shelves, so I've
learned to contain my excitement until I can share it with everyone else.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>BAA: </b>I
think earned a platinum Up All Night badge pretty early on... Hopefully this
year I’ll get my Time Management badge too.</div>
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working on?</span></b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>GE: </b>I've
got a bunch of other irons in the fire, but none of those projects have been
announced yet. Not all of them are comics, but I think all of them complement <i>Lumberjanes</i> pretty well, actually. So, vague
stuff to look forward to, eh?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>BAA: </b>Some
short stories for BOOM!, some smaller projects for other companies, mostly
*~*~ secret things~*~*. I'm also working on some new toy designs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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it's really cold outside, does Camp Director Rosie change into long pants, or
is she so hardcore that it's cargo shorts no matter what?</span></b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>BAA: </b>I'd
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sure she'd wear shorts even in the vacuum of space. Although designing a
hardcore lady type parka suit would be fun.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>GE: </b>This
one is so tough! Hmm. Ok, I feel like she's a cargo shorts kind of gal, but
when it gets <i>unbearably </i>cold, I bet she goes for some really nice,
insulated snow overalls with some long underwear. But otherwise: cargo shorts
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Annie Bullochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01563210963630227774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724061632822310215.post-80703038883335248282015-02-16T10:14:00.001-08:002015-02-16T10:14:48.328-08:00Interview With Dean Trippe <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">Dean Trippe is the creator
of the superhero parody webcomic, <a href="http://deantrippe.com/" target="_blank">Butterfly</a>, co-founder and editor of
the superhero redesign art site, <a href="http://www.tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/" target="_blank">Project: Rooftop</a>, illustrator of Oni
Press’s Power Lunch children’s books, and was a contributor to the
Eisner and Harvey award-winning anthology, Comic Book Tattoo. His most
recent work, a short, autobiographical comic dealing with childhood
trauma and the power of fictional heroes to save very real lives, is
called <a href="http://www.tencentticker.com/somethingterrible/" target="_blank">Something Terrible</a>. <a href="http://deantrippe.com/" style="color: black;">http://deantrippe.com</a></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih1XKFjV5u9oDvyrnDH2ShR0lesR2UC-lLFNcP9kgo_P_WGDRugv-mD_BssHUIAnfDuayw5RIaP9Aqhavj0XuI3vNiiddVbC-QOHpGjSMoyDjawE8JLkS_26BC2N3kWjPaNSEjKl4yuQc/s1600/2011-09-13-Butterfly-Series-3-Page-3_colors_final_letters_760.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih1XKFjV5u9oDvyrnDH2ShR0lesR2UC-lLFNcP9kgo_P_WGDRugv-mD_BssHUIAnfDuayw5RIaP9Aqhavj0XuI3vNiiddVbC-QOHpGjSMoyDjawE8JLkS_26BC2N3kWjPaNSEjKl4yuQc/s1600/2011-09-13-Butterfly-Series-3-Page-3_colors_final_letters_760.jpg" height="320" width="212" /></a><br />
MATT HIRST: Thank you for doing this. These interviews are one of the great perks I get for volunteering for Staple.<br /><br />DEAN TRIPPE: Thanks so much, man. Means a lot. And no problem! Happy to do it. <br />
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You have had a lot of really good interviews, and of course, many great
discussions in your own podcasts with <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-last-cast/id604739048" target="_blank">Scott Fogg</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bat-cast/id867181836" target="_blank">Jason Horn</a>. Are
there any questions that you are surprised you have not been asked?<br /><br />DT:
No one’s really wanted to go too deep on my sick rap skills, but I
suppose my album’s been out of print since 2004, so maybe folks today
don’t even remember.<br /><br />MH: <a href="http://www.tencentticker.com/somethingterrible/" target="_blank">Something Terrible</a> can be counted among a
number of moving survivor accounts. What I feel differentiates this
work is the expression of living with a sense of fear and stigma at
being a potential abuser. That seems like an experience that has seldom
been shared. Have you found other narrative accounts since you published
it that impress you, for this kind of expression or for other reasons? <br /><br />DT:
I hear from folks who’ve had similar experiences multiple times per
week, but yeah, it’s rare for folks to come out about being sexually
abused and get heavy into the fear and stigmas that come with surviving
such crimes. The one that stands out to me came before <a href="http://www.tencentticker.com/somethingterrible/" target="_blank">Something Terrible</a>, David Holthouse’s account of plotting to murder his rapist,
presented in TAH episode 425, Slow to React. ( <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/425/slow-to-react?act=1" target="_blank">http://www.thisamericanlife.<wbr></wbr>org/radio-archives/episode/<wbr></wbr>425/slow-to-react?act=1</a> )<br /><br />MH:
Your mini-comic <a href="http://www.tencentticker.com/somethingterrible/" target="_blank">Something Terrible</a> reached millions of readers. Movies
made from comics (not just super hero genre) have made millions and won
international recognition. I don’t see that level of awareness towards
the direct market comic book. What do you think comic book publishers
could do better or differently to get more awareness?<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz_UpoWZwJkaPPW7nE6ST6c7RnuP3LT1mdhNMqj3JbOyu-WbduCmZQgjcX0kNqTI9EfUyVXpzSxyCZuaTlBeYU0hKkFxledM83Q-G26TO7yswuTz0CX4q8caAgl4PsnEGiZEPV6F-f5Js/s1600/Something-Terrible-9.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz_UpoWZwJkaPPW7nE6ST6c7RnuP3LT1mdhNMqj3JbOyu-WbduCmZQgjcX0kNqTI9EfUyVXpzSxyCZuaTlBeYU0hKkFxledM83Q-G26TO7yswuTz0CX4q8caAgl4PsnEGiZEPV6F-f5Js/s1600/Something-Terrible-9.jpg" height="239" width="320" /></a><br />DT: The
biggest issue that should be at the forefront of everyone’s mind is
ACCESS. Every gatekeeper at all levels of the industry should be
welcoming to new talent, diverse ideas, and folks just getting into
fandom. If you want an industry that can thrive in the 21st century, you
have to look beyond the 35-year-old, videogame-playing demographic, and
comic shops themselves, have to get way better. There are plenty of
excellent shops in the country, but I hear from people all the time who
have negative experiences at the only LCS near them. We’ve got to
welcome everyone, treat everyone well, and hope each person who enters
into our world finds a place where they’ll be safe.<br /><br />MH: You
studied comics in college; what would you say are the top five fiction
comics every aspiring comic book creator should read to learn the ins
and outs of the art form?<br /><br />DT: I’ll just list some of my favorites
for brilliant visual storytelling: Brubaker and Cooke’s Catwoman arc,
Mignola’s Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Other Stories, Morrison and
Quitely’s We3, <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYlbwb6wN5nCc14_uM-qa9sdC6q8wcXGHO5qHx0dzKnxSz84_2YPO09LpHTJLr4uT964U9BvXNFHN7CWaOkS4U__VByJVqCNHLJcyqB8qiNv8gUdVhnUQqtmxM85Aj5wieQXIKayL__E0/s1600/dt1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYlbwb6wN5nCc14_uM-qa9sdC6q8wcXGHO5qHx0dzKnxSz84_2YPO09LpHTJLr4uT964U9BvXNFHN7CWaOkS4U__VByJVqCNHLJcyqB8qiNv8gUdVhnUQqtmxM85Aj5wieQXIKayL__E0/s1600/dt1.jpg" height="320" width="204" /></a><br />MH: Are there any of the other guest that you are looking forward to meeting at Staple 2015?<br /><br />DT:
Oh, dude, everybody! It’s a great list. Too many friends I haven’t seen
in too long. I’m so happy to be coming back to Austin. I’m psyched to
see Babs Tarr, Jess Fink, Kate Leth, Timothy Doyle, Robert Wilson IV,
and so many more of the cool kids of comics world.<br /><br />MH: Do you have any new projects you are willing to hint about?<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcsL4u0zZCxtGT1YN117AtofRmRJ9nf07BhvsNMiyAhpL4H9AfrtSrjItcFz0TeSAJ8ycXLkyJY8y2EHtTkryzAyayQS_hVSBMKCYYnR4oG26VDfNLTL2h7D2zMgxChzJPfMwfRWeexbI/s1600/dt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br />DT:
I’ve got a teen fantasy revenge story and a bright and shiny superhero
book in the works. Hoping to have both of those up this year.<br /><br />MH:
This last question may be crazy, but I have been thinking about this
for many years now and I think you may have some great insights -- maybe
even some answers?<span class="im"> Why do we
form such a personal attachment to characters who are: 1) Owned by
corporate entities (DC, Marvel, etc.) 2) Largely brought to us by
hundreds of creators who give up any ownership stake and control over
any innovation 3) Radically removed from the creators and contexts of
their generation?</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcsL4u0zZCxtGT1YN117AtofRmRJ9nf07BhvsNMiyAhpL4H9AfrtSrjItcFz0TeSAJ8ycXLkyJY8y2EHtTkryzAyayQS_hVSBMKCYYnR4oG26VDfNLTL2h7D2zMgxChzJPfMwfRWeexbI/s1600/dt.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcsL4u0zZCxtGT1YN117AtofRmRJ9nf07BhvsNMiyAhpL4H9AfrtSrjItcFz0TeSAJ8ycXLkyJY8y2EHtTkryzAyayQS_hVSBMKCYYnR4oG26VDfNLTL2h7D2zMgxChzJPfMwfRWeexbI/s1600/dt.jpg" height="255" width="320" /></a><br />DT: Epic tales have inspired and
connected with individuals in our mundane lives for as long as there
have been storytellers. When civil rights preachers in the South used
stories of the Israelites to express the feeling of a coming promised
land, they were using old tales to explain a modern condition. And to
instill hope, because we know stories have resolutions, of one kind or
another. The fact that our modern corporate landscape has found a way to
turn creativity into a capital engine is certainly weird, and at time
destructive, but it doesn’t affect the power of poor artists and writers
pouring their hearts and minds into fantastic tales, and honestly, has
the side effect of allowing creators to collaborate across generations,
improving upon earlier drafts, refining or refocusing ideas over
decades. The good ideas stick. The bad ones fall away. Our heroes are
bigger than their corporate caretakers, so even when there’s a bizarre
misstep, of marketing or malice, our characters endure.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12855869662504954236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724061632822310215.post-32305970817374990212015-02-12T13:56:00.000-08:002016-03-05T05:08:41.885-08:00Interview with Zach Taylor<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A ten year veteran of the self-published comic book scene, Zach Taylor, took some time from his simultaneous projects <a href="http://www.gnourg.com/bear-quest-3-001/" target="_blank"><i><b>Bear Quest 3</b></i></a> and <a href="http://www.gnourg.com/workforce-001/" target="_blank"><i><b>Work Force!</b></i></a> staring The Miner to answer some questions. You can follow him on Twitter </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://twitter.com/z_bill" target="_blank">@z_bill</a> </b></span>and like him on hist Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bearquestcomic" target="_blank">page</a>. He also has cast posted to Youtube at </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/largoinfinite" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Largocasts</i></b></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">. His comics can be found at </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">largoinfinite.com and <a href="http://www.gnourg.com/bear-quest-001/" target="_blank"><i><b>Bear Quest 1</b></i></a> and </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="http://www.gnourg.com/bear-quest-2-001/" target="_blank"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><i><b>Bear Quest 2</b></i></span></span></a> are for sale along with some cool posters at his <a href="http://www.gnourg.com/mybooks/" target="_blank">store</a>. </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Jack Kirby deserves mention over all others. Dave Sim, Jeff Smith, and Mark
Oakley (who did a book called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thieves & Kings</i></b> that few people
know about and that's a shame) got me into indie comics and the idea of self-publishing.
Grant Morrison and Kirby were my gateway back into mainstream superheroes. I
could also label a lot of filmmakers as influences, but I'll just give a shout
to Terry Gilliam, the greatest imaginative mind ever.<br />
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I'm still waiting for someone famous to say <i><b>Bear Quest </b></i>is "Jack Kirby
meets Jim Woodring by way of Super Mario" so I can make it a blurb.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Having ten years of
insider’s perspective into the world of self published comics what would you
see as the high and low watermarks </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kind
of hard to say, because Texas, apart from Staple!, is off the radar in terms of
the indie comics scene. Tough to be on the pulse of it. The promise of real
self-publishing with wide distribution and success, the landscape of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cerebus</i></b>
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bone</i></b>,
died before I even started making comics. And I see little of that spirit in
most webcomics today. Comics, with ongoing storylines, real domain remains to
be print. The bright side is that I feel a greater kinship with the medium as a
whole, mainstream and all. Maybe I'm delusional. But when I see guys like Matt
Kindt, Jeff Lemire, and Brandon Graham, people I consider straight cartoonists,
able to draw, write, whatever, win the good graces of the big comics
publishers...I smile and think of our Great Comics Family. Band together or we
die alone.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">You went a long period only working in black and white.
How did inform your current color work and would suggest it to other
artist?</span></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The black and white period came from frustration in printing my color work. I
did digital painting in college, and always seemed to have to give the excuse
"it looked better on the computer" in portfolio class. So, when I
started making comics seriously, I made it my mission to create a style that
was impossible to print incorrectly. That brought about a raw, strict black and
white (no shades of gray!) style. Plus, it might have been my "dark"
angsty years, haha. <br />
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Would I suggest it to another artist? Not if he or she isn't inclined to do it
already. Artists will eventually arrive where they need to be artistically if
they keep at it. It may take waaaay longer than planned, but they will get
there. For instance, while I was in my black and white period, people would see
my occasional color work and ask, "What the hell? This is much better than
what you are doing. Why aren't you doing stuff like this?" And they were
right, it was better. But I couldn't just jump right to color. I had to go
through this extended black and white phase to bring myself to that point
artistically.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I found an old copy of you
books <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Moonman on Wheels</i> and I was
wondering how would you contrast it with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Miner</i>. Like the Bear they both have these ballistic trajectory
through life but have very different attitudes.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Difficult
to talk about <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moon Man</i></b> because it's
out of print and not available on my website, but what the hell? <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moon Man</i></b> is good high concept that was
in the hands of a guy who didn't have much respect for his audience. A much
more bitter guy made it. <i><b>The Miner</b></i> was that guy lightening up and making
something fun and approachable. In a way though, they are both about characters
feeling entitled to something they never earned. Unrealized potential. He walks
into town and expects to be loved by everyone despite being a stranger who
hasn't proven himself. I WAS that guy when I made <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moon Man</i></b>, but <b><i>The Miner</i></b> overcame that and decided to fit in and
have a good time regardless of the apathy of the universe. I would like to
revisit the defeatist tone of my early work though. I had some good ideas that
I was too stubborn to write properly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">You work is influenced by video games, you have a strong
<a href="https://twitter.com/z_bill" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bearquestcomic" target="_blank">Facebook</a> presence, you started a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/largoinfinite" target="_blank">vlog</a>, you do free hand and pixel
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">All media is going to collapse into one someday. Just a big mass of comic/game/movie/novel/rollercoaster/whatever.
I want to contribute to the spirit of that with <i><b>Bear Quest</b></i>, which is at its
core the history of a video game property told through a comic. But, I don't
know, I'm torn between digital and print, painting and pixels, comics and video
games. They all try to grab me away equally. I just hope that whatever our
Entertainment Future might be, that a) I don't end up hating it, and b) it's
got some spot where I fit in. <br />
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As far as social media, I try to keep up with twitter (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://twitter.com/z_bill" target="_blank">@z_bill</a> </b>Hit me up!) mainly. I'm a fan of YouTube Let's Plays and
podcasts, so I decided to create what I call <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/largoinfinite" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Largocasts</i></b></a>, where I talk
about whatever I feel like (comics, games, process, storytelling, etc) as
sped-up artwork plays. Trying to figure out what I can do with the platform,
maybe create a little community, do something fun and audio/visual.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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media distinctions as a threat to print comics, comics as a static medium
and/or some thing as aggressively low tech as zones and mini comics?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I
wouldn't say "threat," but yeah, there's no way comics will exist in
this same form in a hundred years. Things will be different, but no one can predict
how. I mean, I'm definitely that old-fogey-in-the-making who is unable to give
up on his "books printed on paper." I love books. But I'm going to
look at comics' evolution the same way I'm looking at the current superhero
blockbuster movie explosion: All my senses could easily judge these films as
terrible. But I've consciously decided to find things I like about them, that
way I don't become that hateful old fogey. And I've got some standing in the
future of The All-Media. Whatever that looks like.</span></span></div>
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Yes, The Bear has started showing up at cons and creating mayhem. I guess he
heard I wrote a book about him? Weird thing is I've never seen him! I always
remember walking out of the con, then...I guess I black out? I wake up in an
alleyway, go back in, and everyone tells me The Bear showed up and caused all
this trouble, leaving me to apologize. He's prone to shuffle merchandise
around, dance, knock things over, and randomly maul people. He's going to get
me in trouble!<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Though for some reason, most kids don't seem scared of him. There are pictures
of him playing with legos in a circle with children. And I once heard about a
toddler, initially terrified, taking what looked like her first steps from her
carriage to embrace his calf. Good thing she couldn't read yet or she'd know
what a monster he is!<br />
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There was also an epic battle with Sonic the Hedgehog. Most the time he's in a
confused frenzy at these cons.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Just to get basic terminology <i>Bear Quest</i> is a side
scroller, <i>Bear Quest 2</i> is an overhead rpg, and <i>Bear Quest 3</i> is a first person
shooter? What games in each of these categories do you credit as
influences.</span></b></span></div>
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That sounds right! (Though sticklers would call <i><b>BQ2</b></i> "isometric"
perspective, not "overhead") First <i><b>BQ</b></i> has resemblances to <i><b>Pitfall</b></i> and
<i><b>Hudson's Adventure Island</b></i>. But the screenshots I mimicked when I made it were
from a game no one played called <i><b>Dynowarz</b></i> for NES. <i><b>BQ2</b></i> I just say <i><b>Zelda</b></i> to make
it easy. However, the real influence is my favorite game from the 16 bit era,
<i><b>Landstalker</b></i> for Genesis. Yep, I was a Sega kid. <i><b>BQ3</b></i> is straight up <i><b>Doom</b></i>. The
game panels there are actual screenshots from a fully modded <i><b>Doom 2 </b></i>level!<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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seems to invite it. Every page has parallel storytelling but by my count
there are at least four levels of storytelling. There is what happens on
the screen of the video game, what happens in the game world, what is happening
subjectively for the player and in <i>Bear Quest 3</i> we see the screen and the game
world jump out of the player’s subject space and into the objective space of
the Largo Game Console. Where do you see it taking place? </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I love this question. I can tell you are paying attention, haha! The idea that
<i><b>Bear Quest </b></i>is just a simple rendition of "what would be happening if this
game were real" breaks down slowly. At first, readers assume he's just an
oblivious beast being playful. They forget about the person that may be playing
the game. Is the bear being controlled? Are YOU controlling him? If he escapes
into the player's world, then what does that mean about the former
"reality" of the game? There are lots of different ways to look at
it, and I wouldn't want to force my version. <br />
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If you are lost though, it might help to think of each panel as a viewport.
Does The Bear see pixels in a world that is actually detailed… or does he see a
detailed world interpreted down to pixels for someone else (The player? The
reader?) to see? These questions get weirder and more meta the deeper we go in
the story. Especially in <i><b>BQ3</b></i>, when The Bear enters the "Largo World"
and now the game panels look, in many ways, more realistic than the reality!
Then the insane reality-bending thing that happens when he is eaten by an
armadillo, haha! It's an experimental work, no doubt. And if readers aren't
asking, "What is the game? What is real?" then they are just looking
at the purdy pictures.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh
absolutely! The Largo Infinite Handheld System<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">™</span> is the glue that ties all my
work together. The Miner, or another character in his story (such as The Sailor
in my currently running comic, Workforce!), is prone to play Largo video games.
Technically, he could pull out Bear Quest and start playing. It's a very
popular game franchise, which has spawned many sequels, merchandise, and even
costumes! So, by extension, the "Largo World" of BQ3 and The Miner's
world are the same place. Which, to confuse things further, is named Gnourg.
Call it my "Hyboria" or "Westeros" in that big geeky
fantasy tradition of naming your world some nonsense word, haha. Though, <a href="http://gnourg.com/">http://largoinfinite.com</a> is the website where you read all these
stories. And has been around for 15 years! It's almost like I planned all this,
right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Apart from the connections, might there be a reason there are so many games
being played in these stories? Games are my stand-in for most all media. It's
relevant that the city is crumbling, or an adventure is happening elsewhere,
and all these characters want to do is beat a video game. I'm not making some
judgmental statement about humanity and how we bury ourselves in trivial
entertainment and ignore our actual problems. But we absolutely do that. I see
that and it goes in my books. I am so, so guilty of it myself. It should be
obvious that I spend a good deal of my time with my head in fantasy worlds,
both my own and others. I believe it's healthy, at least for me, to do this.
It's how I cope with the real world. That's why beating the game always gives
the hero insight into how to beat adversity.</span>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12855869662504954236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724061632822310215.post-7354435599831879172015-02-03T10:00:00.000-08:002015-02-03T10:00:05.520-08:00An Interview with Jess Fink, illustrator and creator of CHESTER 5000, WE CAN FIX IT, and just all kinds of online stuff (like KID WITH EXPERIENCE)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jess Fink wears many hats: illustrator, cartoonist, designer of many a Threadless t-shirt, and more. She's been drawing since she was a kid and earned her degree in Illustration and Cartooning from the School of Visual Arts. Jess has produced female-friendly erotic comics like <a href="http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/chester-5000-xyv/721" target="_blank">Chester 5000</a>, a sci-fi autobiography in <a href="http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/we-can-fix-it/720" target="_blank">We Can Fix It</a>, and has many an online offering to be enjoyed from <a href="http://jessfink.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">her Tumblr</a> (which we should perhaps mention is NSFW). Alan Moore described her work as "liquid and elegantly stylized." In advance of her STAPLE! appearance, she kindly took time to tell us a little more about herself and her work.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black;">I suppose it's because I didn't come from a super hero/marvel/DC comics background. As a kid I was heavily influenced by animation, especially Looney Tunes, I wanted to watch every cartoon. I'd wanted to be an animator since I was 7. The first comic I bought was The Maxx, after seeing it on MTV, and I adored it. I didn't know comics could be like that! After that I dove in and read any indie comic that appealed to me. I also got heavily into manga and anime. In college I read tons of auto bio comics by artists like Julie Duchet, Craig Thompson, Chester Brown, Lynda Barry. It blew my mind to think I could talk about my own life in my comics. As for making erotica, I think it was a thing I always drew and as I got older I just became less ashamed of it. Live action porn had always left me with a bad taste in my mouth and I preferred to make my own. I had a great teacher, Tom Hart, who introduced me to some</span> fantastic erotic comics by Molly Kiely that told stories and were compassionate, funny and sexy. I also found out about Fantagraphics' Eros imprint, and I jumped on submitting things to them right away.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Very! It used to be that Erotic comics were kept in the secret, back room of the comic store that no one talked about, not so with web comics. The internet has made it possible for a lot of artists who would otherwise be censored or marginalized to produce their work and find an audience. I love print comics too, but the internet is definitely where I've made my home.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love Science Fiction, I always have. The kind of sci fi I love is usually more focused on talking about what it means to be human, rather than on the awe of new technology though. I guess it's the same with erotica, I want more of this type of sci fi so I try to make it.</span></div>
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Kate Leth, of <a href="http://kateordiecomics.com/" target="_blank">Kate or Die</a> fame, has a lot going for her these days. Hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the artist/writer/Queen of the Valkyries has her hands full with the <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling <i>Adventure Time: Seeing Red</i>, the ongoing <i>Bravest Warriors</i> comic series, a <i>Fraggle Rock</i> mini and the current <i>Edward Scissorhands</i> mini. We were fortunate enough to grab a few seconds of her time before her big STAPLE! appearance next month.<br />
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<b>What has stood out as one of your biggest accomplishments in your career thus far? Your proudest moment since you began working in the comic book industry?</b> <br />
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It was very, very exciting to see my first <i>Adventure Time</i> graphic novel make the <i>NYT</i> Bestseller list! Honestly, though, my favorite ongoing experiences are either seeing pictures of kids reading my books or meeting younger fans. I've gotten fan art from kids a few times, and that's one of the best feelings in the world. It's just so great!<br />
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<b>How has working in the comic industry changed you? How has it influenced your writing, your art, your attitude or your outlook on life in general?</b> <br />
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Well, it's changed pretty much everything. I was a college dropout working in a comic book store before my boss encouraged me to start making my own work! I became a writer when I was offered a writing job. Comics are the first thing I've ever felt like I was good at, and I've become so involved in so many different aspects of it now that I feel like it's my whole life. I read or write or review comics every single day.<br />
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<b>In the past year and a half (give or take) you have been spearheading a revolutionary organization - The Valkyries. Can you explain who these women are and what this group means for women and other minority groups who want to become a part of the comic community? [<i>Full disclosure: Both the writer and the editor of this piece are members of the Valkyries. -ed.</i>]</b> <br />
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My warrior women! The Valkyries are an amazing group of women who work in, manage, own or otherwise are integral to comic shops all over the world. There are close to 400 members now, and it's growing all the time. It started as a place to chat about the job and swap stories, but it's become so much more than that - there are comic trades, convention meet-ups, files upon files of comics to appeal to every demographic, ongoing discussions about how to host book clubs and ladies' nights; I love every minute of it. I think places like that, safe spaces, are really important. A sense of community goes a long way.<br />
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Same hopes as always, I suppose! I hope for more diversity and representation in comics. I want to see more women working in and playing interesting roles in all kinds of media. My advice is pretty well tied into that, too: support the kinds of creators and stories you want to see. Keep breathing life into this industry and it'll keep growing and bettering itself all the time.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://thathillbillycartoon.squarespace.com/"><strong>The Hillbilly Philosopher</strong></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> is an independently produced animated short, written and illustrated by <strong>Justin Buschardt</strong> and <strong>Jonathan Hubbell</strong>, animated by <strong>Tad Catalano</strong>, narrated by <strong><a href="http://danuuribe.com/" target="_blank">Danu Uribe</a></strong>, and made entirely in Austin, Texas. The pilot episode, completed in September of 2014, will be screened on Sunday, March 8 at </span><a href="http://www.staple-austin.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">STAPLE!</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> followed by a Q and A session with the creators. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What follows below (after the trailer) is an in depth write-up by their friend <strong>Michele Cummins</strong>, and then the rather lengthy and bizarre bios they sent me instead of something normal like normal people would do. Weirdos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Full disclosure:</strong> I am good friends with Jonathan, know Justin less well but like him just fine, and have never met Tad. I have a very small but I daresay pivotal voice role in the film.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Chris "Uncle Staple" Nicholas, January 2015</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Watch the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/101343932">official trailer</a><a href="http://thathillbillycartoon.squarespace.com/"> </a></span> below and then come see the whole thing at STAPLE!</span><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/101343932"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hillbilly Philosopher Preview</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> from </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/thehillbillyphilosopher"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hillbilly Philosopher</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> on </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Vimeo</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"All comic novels that are any good must be about matters
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One terribly dark night in 2002 (the year of the horse) Jonathan
Hubbell found himself where no man (or even horse) should ever be - on a
bridged section of a railroad track hearing none other than the burgeoning roar
of an oncoming train. </span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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decided a good cartoon scenario could start with a character on those railroad
tracks. But this character never before had a reason to think too deeply about
anything due to his small-town surroundings. The character would suddenly be
forced to confront the possibility of his own death, making him more acutely
aware of his existence and allowing him to cultivate an overwhelming desire to
understand life.</span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That is the premise of the Hillbilly Philosopher cartoon. Floyd,
a small-town southern hillbilly stereotype, has a near-death experience, and
after he must confront his existential thoughts and questions. He goes through
a coming-of-age journey, but consider age replaced by intellectual maturity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the first episode, we find Floyd having a nervous breakdown
on a railroad track because he sees two men kissing for the first time in his
life. The amorous act shakes up his entire insular worldview. He soon, however,
recognizes the reason the ground under him is literally shaking is that an
oncoming train is close behind him.</span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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death becomes his launching point for character development. We watch Floyd
continue to confront new people and situations as his journey progresses. The
story is about transcendence of race, sexuality, differences, and a multitude
of social issues. He grows and learns while we get to laugh at him because
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that he leaves his hometown to travel across the globe in search of answers. He
embarks on this journey with his best friend Butts. "I mean you gotta have
two stupid dudes," Hubbell assures me. "It's the formula. Butts… he's
the sweetie. He's a big dude and he's also a kindergarten art teacher."
The characters may start out ignorant but they are multi-layered and strive to become
better people, which makes them both relatable and lovable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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logged somewhere around five years flinging their pencils, souls, and bodily
fluids (blood, sweat, & tears, that is) into the production of Hillbilly
Philosopher. The final component to their current team is animator Tad Catalano
of <a href="http://www.mightycoconut.com/" target="_blank">Mighty Coconut</a>, who was hired two years ago <em>(after a successful Kickstarter campaign - ed.)</em>. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Diamond in the rough.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"We had to get Tad drunk
to work with us." Hubbell explains. "Tad's skill level is just so
high that it was better when he was drunk because Hillbilly Philosopher is
meant to have a simplicity to it." There have been voice-acting contributions
from talented friends as well and Hubbell is slowly expanding the team as the
project grows.</span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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stays busy sharing the pilot with networks and other such avenues to see where
it can land a future as a regular series. There are open screening parties in
the works for this Spring around the Austin area and a few outside, including
one at the Original House of Blues in New Orleans on May 21st. </span></span></div>
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double-wide trailer, his uncle blankly watched as he chewed his way through the
hot, semi-malleable rubber until Justin’s beautiful tarred face emerged
victoriously into the scorching desert life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">A swan then swooped down with transcendence to snip Justin’s
umbilical chord, nearly killing his tiny body (along with tiny penis) in the
gesture.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The graceful bird was shot almost
immediately by the nearby uncle’s 20 gauge coach gun & the two relatives—one
recently brought to planet’s existence—ate pieces of the elegant glider for
“dinner.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Justin’s portion was put in a blender, of course, so as to
make it bottle-friendly and more digestible to his new baby belly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">27 years later, Justin Buschardt was found in Texas
“celebrating America” by lavishly firing-off gluten-free pepper-spray in a
county courthouse restroom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Upon his forcible (yet homoerotic, at times) escorting from
the institution—by men desperate for the perceived social structure of their
authority—and out to the streets, Justin’s overalls then “lost they main
buttons” (according to his statement), thus quickly & publicly collapsing
his already-undignified trousers down to his bare feet.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">This left only the tips of his tropically
painted toenails protruding from beneath the crumpled denim bottom-wear he mama
had bought him.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">During this time, an animal-rights parade was stampeding violently
down the road—crushing small-businesses and emergency clinics—in front of both
Justin and his accompanying police officers as several previously-hidden fish
flapped berserk-style haplessly to ground from Justin’s ill-kempt pantalones,
flailing wildly on the sidewalk.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">The fish were shot excessively to death using violent force
by nearby officers on duty and even some of the animal-rights activists and one
priest who admits to being high.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">This
seems to have occurred both out of confusion and, as of late, the public statement
by Texas law enforcement representatives has simply been that the act was
warranted granting the specific manner of “non-free speech” gesturing exhibited
that afternoon by the land-trapped sea life. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The particular clauses utilized as legal
leverage in this case have only been alluded to as part of a soon-to-be “law
rule” in south Texas and thus remain shrouded from the public’s total knowledge
until a future election year, if then.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Found in a swamp during the Reagan years by Ronald Reagan on
a routine presidential swamp stay and getaway, Jonathan was fished out of the
murky depths with a .22 caliber rifle and petrified-wood cane.</span></span></span><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">His body covered in barnacles and several colonies of shrimp
(even his special bathing-suit region), experts later determined that it was
these very shrimp that had kept him somehow “alive” all of his years spent
submerged—though, there’s really no time to get into all of that now.</span></span></span><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></div>
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by universities for years following the incident until it was widely
acknowledged that this made no sense.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">At
such point, Hubbell was sent on donkey (using government funding) to work at an
auto shop outside of Abilene.</span></span></span><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">He became quick friends with Buschardt—who had been working
there at the time as a “person to keep quiet, often”—but their friendship
solidified one evening when Justin observed Jonathan spraying his donkey in the
face with gluten-free pepper-spray to settle an argument that had apparently
been festering for months.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">“On those cold, moonless nights, you will hear his sorrowful
wailings before you notice the mystical melodies he creates with his flutes,”
Justin Buschardt relayed to Jonathan Hubbell one evening at the auto shop, after
hours.</span></span></span><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></div>
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Jonathan and the idea that the two should make an animated short (that would
one day, hopefully, lead to an animated series) had just begun to poke its
seedling out of the soil, as the French say.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">However, after several attempts to “animate” the story on their own,
using pieces of foil, drills and antiquated figurines they’d find at pawn shops
in west Texas, Justin began rambling about a man he’d heard about named Tad
Catalano—a man who could possibly bring their dreams into reality without any
of said supplies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Justin dismissively uttered this fact somewhere midway through a string of 1,000
other facts, as though it were irrelevant.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Justin replied, “Yes, he is the first blind animator in history—or will
be—but I think it would be smart to work with him. “</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">There was a pause: </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">“I mean, anybody can do anything, right?”
Justin asked.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Jonathan replied, “No,
probably not.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">In fact, not at all:</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">quite clearly.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">However, something deeply irrational inside
of my brain-heart knows how you mean when you say what you’re expressing this
to me when you’re saying that how you did that just a recent ago.”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Hubbell continued:</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">“We have no choice then but to discover the
first blind animator in history and we will fucking work with him.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">It will be our mission.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">It’s what God would’ve wanted.”</span></span></span></div>
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had stunningly little to do with gluten (to Jonathan’s surprise and Justin’s
disappointment)—both a friendship and newfound respect for our disabled human
came to fruition.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Since Tad was unable
to see the images to which he was applying motion, much of production involved
his “caning” the two creators on their backs (and sometimes in the face or mouth)
with his exotic wooden flutes, as he screamed wildly at them: “figure out how
to make your ‘Looney Looney Mahoney Tunes’ move, and fast!!” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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confusing, abusive, artistic (?) process, (2) searching around Tad’s house and
yard at his behest for his “lost medication,” and (3) driving the “animator” to
Taco Bell, Hillbilly Philosopher was completed, already making its mark as the
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UPDATE: The lovely and talented comedian and actress <strong>Danu Uribe</strong>, who does the narration for Hillbilly Philosopher, will be joining the creators for the Q&A session at STAPLE! She sent in a normal, yet extraodinarliy impressive, bio:</div>
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<strong>Danu Uribe</strong> is an Emmy-nominated, on-camera and voice-over talent with fifteen years of stage, screen and studio experience in radio, video games, television, film, theater, animation, and eLearning projects. She takes pride in having created more than a hundred unique characters for educational software curricula used by students all over the United States in addition to performing around the world (from CONAN to Broadway) in The Intergalactic Nemesis Trilogy. In her spare time, she performs improvisational and sketch comedy at The New Movement Theater in Austin, Texas. Discover Danu at <a href="http://www.danuuribe.com/" target="_blank">www.DanuUribe.com</a>.</div>
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</span>Uncle Staplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03410312467764725425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8724061632822310215.post-21750209256845494952015-01-21T16:37:00.001-08:002015-01-22T06:23:19.347-08:00An Interview with Evan Dahm<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjYGbhfpJYMsMzBxkQrqIHnfnVZ3g67S6dbPWfHtRKW_S1uKY9VIXdCSCLi4QSru91cxBCJiZg3cJDYzgcXaf_A1215XZZFkgaLmHHx2XHOyYNCT_Uaoa0tmz2tVaZC5Fo4c5SRPzrb2Q/s1600/orreryprew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjYGbhfpJYMsMzBxkQrqIHnfnVZ3g67S6dbPWfHtRKW_S1uKY9VIXdCSCLi4QSru91cxBCJiZg3cJDYzgcXaf_A1215XZZFkgaLmHHx2XHOyYNCT_Uaoa0tmz2tVaZC5Fo4c5SRPzrb2Q/s1600/orreryprew.jpg" height="320" width="180" /></a>Evan Dahm is an incredibly productive dude. He embodies the DYI ethos of Staple! His epic project, set in the world of Overside, includes three books so far. <a href="http://www.rice-boy.com/see/" target="_blank">Rice Boy</a>, <a href="http://www.rice-boy.com/order/" target="_blank">Order of Tales</a>, <a href="http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/" target="_blank">Vattu</a>, and some gorgeous <a href="http://www.rice-boy.com/shortstories.php" target="_blank">short stories</a>, almost two thousand pages and counting. He has also completed an illustrated edition of the <a href="http://baumbydahm.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Wizard of Oz</a>, several art books, and co-founded the <a href="http://www.benignkingdom.com/" target="_blank">Benign Kingdom</a> publishing company. He generously took time from his crazy busy schedule to answers some of my questions.<br />
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What do you think are the most important things to keep in mind when crafting and sustaining an epic narratives like yours?<br />
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<b>This is a very good question and I've come up with different answers for it myself over and over. The planning issue is key, and I've oscillated between an almost stream-of-consciousness approach, and something super-densely mapped out. My current comic <a href="http://www.rice-boy.com/vattu/" target="_blank">Vattu</a> is pretty densely plotted, but I've given myself room to move and I'm always changing and elaborating on scenes once I get to the point of actually drawing them. Sustaining is another thing altogether... I lose interest sometimes; there's nothing I've ever been consistently invested in drawing or writing. But having it serialized online helps, and treating it as a commitment and working on it even on the days when I don't feel like it is important. </b><br />
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Along with self-publishing on-line, you self distribute physical editions of your books. What have been the design and aesthetic advantages of maintaining that level of creative control?<b> </b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaHeoyougHFNyhPMojFIz2r3D52FMB_KWME8O0DKjXOb3q5pVsN_8kgfS718I1mHfuCSaNrmUY2AVcuHZV_iUMafJn0qg1QTyN-nHrjfiQTKsWi54-0f7DKWUdliJQWC_TZjI8D0n5dcA/s1600/th12.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaHeoyougHFNyhPMojFIz2r3D52FMB_KWME8O0DKjXOb3q5pVsN_8kgfS718I1mHfuCSaNrmUY2AVcuHZV_iUMafJn0qg1QTyN-nHrjfiQTKsWi54-0f7DKWUdliJQWC_TZjI8D0n5dcA/s1600/th12.png" height="320" width="217" /></a><b>It's kind of spoiled me by now! I love having control of every aspect of how the work is presented, and I love designing books that appeal to a classy, book-fetishist kind of aesthetic. The fact that comics are inherently visual seems to implicate the entire design of the book or the website or whatever in the reading experience, so I appreciate being able to work with all of that as well. I also just published an illustrated edition of the <a href="http://baumbydahm.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Wizard of Oz</a>, which was fun: bringing that specific kind of approach to somebody else's work. </b><br />
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Were there any big mistakes or learning moments self-distributing?<br />
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Going from <a href="http://www.rice-boy.com/see/" target="_blank">Rice Boy</a> to <a href="http://www.rice-boy.com/order/" target="_blank">Order of Tales</a>, how has your relationship to color changed?<br />
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Who do you think of as having really good Fantasy work in comics?<br />
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<b>I haven't read many comics lately. I just read a bunch of Kory Bing's Skin Deep and I liked it a lot-- modern and grounded fantasy but with a strong folklore/mythology undercurrent: <a href="http://skindeepcomic.com/">http://skindeepcomic.com/</a> . Bryan Lee O'Malley's new book is fantasy, right? That's a beautiful book. </b><br />
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<b><a href="http://sammusmusic.com/" target="_blank">Hmm Sammus</a> rules </b><br />
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<b>Yes! I have new art books that have some series of landscape illustrations I've made, called Aftermath & Lacunae. It's meditative, black-and-white stuff that's different from a lot of what I've published before.</b><br />
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because I was special, but because that's what was popular back then
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today...). Matt Groening's name was the first I really clung to and
mispronounced--my dad gave me a copy of Childhood is Hell and it was my
favorite book. Then I got into the Far Side, and always had to wear one
of those shirts. I was the coolest awkwardly-developing kid in the world
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Whose work do you admire now and how has it changed?</div>
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went through a Crumb phase right after college and started branching
off of that. Basil Wolverton, Jim Woodring. I like cartoonists who seem
to put a lot of work and detail into such simple designs. Then I steal
their techniques and try to pass them off as my own. I found this book
of Drew Friedman's black and white stuff a few years ago with all the
Tor Johnson comics. Man, what a stippler!</b></div>
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<span class="im">How long have you been doing <a href="http://www.skweegieisland.com/" target="_blank">Skweegie Kolache</a>?</span></div>
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<b><b><b>Bedell: </b></b>I
started drawing the characters 20 years ago, did a few comic strips in
high school 15 years ago, threw together my first book called "<a href="http://www.skweegieisland.com/" target="_blank">Skweegie Island</a>" 5 years ago, and, uh... To answer your question, I don't know.</b></div>
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In addition to <a href="http://www.skweegieisland.com/" target="_blank">Skweegie</a> Island and <a href="http://vg-libary.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Vidyagame Libary</a>, how many projects are you juggling right now?</div>
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started drawing a new <a href="http://www.skweegieisland.com/" target="_blank">Skweegie Kolache</a> story recently, but besides
that, I'm in the planning stages on a bunch of stuff that may or may not
ever happen. Chris Sweet and I are talking about doing another colab.
And there's always my super-epic magnum opus bullcrap I'll never get
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<a href="http://www.skweegieisland.com/">http://www.skweegieisland.com</a></div>
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<a href="http://telfurious.tumblr.com/">http://telfurious.tumblr.com/</a></div>
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<a href="http://vg-libary.tumblr.com/">http://vg-libary.tumblr.com/</a> </div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/telfurious">https://twitter.com/telfurious</a><br />
<a href="http://www.skweegieisland.com/?comic=grog">http://www.skweegieisland.com/?comic=grog</a> </div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/skweegieisland">https://www.facebook.com/skweegieisland</a> </div>
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Dan Price is the writer and co-creator of <i><b>Masters of the Obvious</b></i> he also created the <i><b>Latex Avenger</b></i>. Recently, he started a web strip called <b><i>Excelsi-ish!</i></b> You can find his work at www.mastersoftheobviouscomic.com and buy his stuff at the Hound Comics <a href="http://houndcomics.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=123&osCsid=lja3pbqmtgt2r54qusbv0l9k62">Store</a>.<br />
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Keith Giffen, Bob Burden, Lee/Kirby, Mike Allred, Don
Simpson, Harold Ramis, Alex Toth Cartoons (Space Ghost/Herculoids), Dave
Chappelle, Kurt Vonnegut, Groucho Marx, Woody Allen, Norman Lear. Huge
fan of comics back in the nineties, so I blame the Image founders for me
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and you have been involved in the monthly sketch bomb. What would say role of
community has been on your work? </span>It's been huge! When I first got
into this, I didn't know anyone or what I was doing. In 2010, when I
really started making a go of<span style="font-style: italic;"> Latex Avenger</span>
and doing shows, I met a lot of people in and out of Austin. By
2011-12, it seemed like Austin's comic scene became a family of sorts.
People getting together and talking turned into collaborations and new
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what you do, so you have to stand out. I have an elevator pitch for both
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tabling next to me) and gauge their attention level. In the case of
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lettered my first comic in Photoshop and then flattened the pages,
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but it's not usually a grueling experience unless I have a book coming
out for a certain show. When that is the case, I usually spend the week
before watching UPS's tracking website like a hawk. Until the book
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I am so passionate about the characters and stories I am creating, it's really exciting when you <span style="background-color: transparent;">meet people who really get what it
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typical fair seen at the shows and it takes a certain, special,
beautiful person to gravitate to it. So, to those people, thank you for
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