Interview | Geoffrey D. Wessel
During C2E2, Kara and Matt sat down with (stood up, wrangled, it’s all the same) with some great COMIXOLOGY SUBMIT creators to talk about their books, their process, and what they read themselves. Since these interviews were done on the fly and in the heat of the con, we also transcribed these interviews. Some parts of the interview have been abridged for maximum hilarity. Enjoy!
Kara Szamborski: Here we are at C2E2. For the first time, we have an actual legitimate place to be for conducting these interviews. We’re seated. We’re at the comiXology booth. We’re here with Geoffrey Wessel to talk about his book, “Keeper”. Available now on comiXology Submit.
Matt Kolowski: Thanks for taking the time out.
Geoffrey Wessel: Not a problem. How are you doing today?
Matt: I’m doing amazing!
Kara: I went in blind on this book. I got through the first issue, and I was writing notes for myself as I was going. I got to the big reveal and in caps I wrote, “I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING.”
Geoffrey: There’s a lot of people that do that. In fact, last year I was on a local soccer oriented radio show. It was ostensibly…the radio mouth piece of the Indy Eleven, NASL club. It was at the weekend of the Indy PopCon, I managed to stick myself on there.
I’m one of the fans, I was always on the West end of the Michael Caroll Stadium setting off smoke during matches and all that. It was in the run-up to the World Cup too, so I mentioned the character Scott Winslow, is an American goalkeeper.
He’s like, “Oh, so he’s a real heroic type like Tim Howard or Brad Guzan,” some USA goalkeepers. I said, “Well, no, actually, he is a serial killer.” You could just hear the record scratching in his brain as I derailed his interview live on the air.
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