We’ve got another double-shot of interviews for you today!
First up is a talk with Joseph Phillip Illidge. Joe was on the show previously with artist & creative collaborator Shawn Martinbrough, but he joins us solo today to talk about his current weekly column The Mission over at Comic Book Resources. Joe doesn’t shy away from giving his readers an honest take on issues of diversity and other voices in comics, and its that kind of discussion that made me want to have him back on the show. He also gives us some insight into what it was like being an editor in the trenches at both DC and Archaia, and how that experience has changed his own writing on projects like his upcoming original graphic novel with Martinbrough and artist Grey Williamson called “The Ren”. So a little looking back and a little looking forward in this one.
Then we bring in writer Chris Miskiewicz and artist Palle Schmidt to talk about their recently concluded BOOM! Studios miniseries “Thomas Alsop,” which just saw its first of two trade paperbacks released last week. You’d think a story about a wise-cracking drunk magician struggling to fulfill his family’s obligation to protect Manhattan from all manner of mystical evils would be complete fiction, but I assure you there’s more truth in this book than you’d think possible. Separated by the Atlantic Ocean but joined by a desire to make awesome comics (and the one night of drunken debauchery that forged their creative alliance), these two are a team to watch out for. We talk about how the series went from a 290-page pitch document to an 8-issue miniseries, why not caring is the key to every artist getting the best work out of themselves, what Multiversity-fave DC comic was Schmidt’s first professional work (even though it was uncredited), and more.
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