Tag: Interviews
Interview with Adventure Time's Pendleton Ward and friends
An interview with Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward about the post-apocalyptic movie genre, Dungeons and Dragons, the Adventure Time licensed comic, Bob's Burgers and more. With special guest appearances by cartoonist/animators Jesse Moynihan, Levon Jihanian, and Andy Tauke!
INTERVIEW: Brian K. Vaughan on SAGA, LOST, Twitter and more
[Although one of the best selling comics authors of the past decade, Brian K. Vaughan keeps a low profile—you won't find him writing in his blog or posting previews on his social media platform of choice. He also tends to take big breaks from the comics format to concentrate on his high profile film and TV work. But that was until this week's debut issue of SAGA came out. Already creating buzz and selling out, the collaboration with Fiona Staples is one of a several prominent new comics this year featuring creators moving from the Big Two to the creator-owned experience. And Vaughan has been making the interview and show rounds because that's how you sell comics in this day and age.
He might not even need it. The early reviews are stunningly positive. This interview was conducted a few months ago, just as the book was being solicited, and since we hadn't talked in a while, it was a chance to catch up on a few other matters, as you'll see.]
New Alan Moore barbaric yawp: two wrongs don't make a right
A new Alan Moore interview, a new round of controversy! This time it's a 90-minute chat with Seraphemera Magazine that reveals Moore's feelings on BEFORE WATCHMEN—he doesn't like it—their creative teams—uncreative—and so on. He also addresses the "Moore Hypocrisy" with which fans love to cut him down to size: if touching the Watchmen is so bad how come you can write LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN? Yeah, answer that, big boy!
Let's learn about life with the cartoonists
Recent interviews with a bunch of notable cartoonists reveals a treasure trove of advice on life and career.
Chris Onstad talks about his hiatus
This interview with Chris Onstad about his hiatus from ACHEWOOD could almost have come under our previous belt-tightening post.
Kibbles 'n' Bits, 12/23/11 interview edition
One of the best comics traditions of the holiday season is The Comics Reporter's Holiday Interview series, which is running now. As usual it's an information- and insight-filled series. Thus far we have:
Holiday reading: a Charles Burns interview
Paul Gravett asks Burns about X'ed Out and more. And this is the source of that preliminary cover for THE HIVE, BTW.
Marv Wolfman: The man who invented the Crisis
Here is a Village Voice interview with Marv Wolfman,
which is interesting for many reasons. Because Wolfman is always a thoughtful commenter on the comics industry and its may pressures, but also because CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS --and NEW TEEN TITANS by the same Wolfman/Perez team -- is to the New 52 generation what Fantastic Four #1 (the 1961 one) was to so many before it. With its sweeping changes, dramatic deaths and multiple universes, it set the stage for many a crisis to come. And, famously, there was talk after CoIE of doing a line-wide issue #1 reboot. The idea lay dormant until now. But Wolfman points out that for an event to be an event it should have actual motivation:
Grant Morrison: Seaguy’s my Watchmen
Props to the Mindless Ones for transcribing this interview -- recording the soft-spoken heavily accented Morrison is bad enough but when it's from a mike by a speaker phone...really guys, what WERE you thinking? Have you ever heard of SKYPE?
Gary Groth on reprints, digital, Borders, DC and even more
Today's slam dunk interview is Alex Dueben's chat with Fantagraphics' publisher Gary Groth, probably just because on the internet a frank discussion with a knowledgeable comics publishing figure is about as common as a humble moment from LeBron. Throw in that he has stellar vocabulary skills, and you have a winner.
Sotomayor's Dirty Dozen: Reilly Brown
By Chris Sotomayor -- I’ve been a fan of Reilly’s since I first noticed his work on Cable & Deadpool, a few years back. One of the great things about following an artist from the beginning of his career, is that you can see glimmers of greatness, and Reilly is no exception. Reilly is a student of storytelling, and he gets straight A’s every time, always adding a new layer with every project. Plus, he’s just such a personable and easy-going guy.
