5 Questions With Brandon Graham

Brandon Graham’s Prophet is up for an Eisner Award for best continuing series this year and we got the chance to put him in the hot seat with quesitons about his experience as nominee. The answers may surprise you. Read more to find out

When were you first inspired to make comics and what book set you on the path to becoming a creator?

I was raised around comics. My mom told me I announced that I was going to make comics when I was seven. I know there was a lot of Tintin and Asterix around me then, my dad was really into the Furry Freak brothers.

If you weren’t making comics right now, what other occupation would you most like to see yourself in?

I assume I’d just be making art in some other medium or working a day job and making art on weekends.

If you could have dinner with any other comic creator living or dead, who would it be and why?

I always wish I’d got to meet Moebius. Or Masamune Shirow would be great to meet as well. In recent years I’ve got to talk to some of my comic book heroes like, Paul Pope, Fil Barlow and Adam Warren. I certainly can’t complain that I haven’t met enough amazing creators.

If you could GIVE an Eisner award to another creator working today who would it be and why?

I tend to regard awards as whatever, but if I could give a pizza or have the rent paid on a French villa to any comic artist, I’d pick someone like Michael Deforge or Emily Carroll. EK Weaver is also doing amazing work on her TJ and Amal and might like a villa or a pizza. There are a lot of fantastic artists working these days. I’d give James Stokoe a golden Godzilla award.

If you do win, where are you going to keep the award?

My misses Marian Churchland got a Russ Manning award that I think she keeps in her closet. I feel like she operates like a barometer to keep me sane. It’s always gotta be about the work first. I guess I’d put mine next to my Prophet and Milo Manara action figures.