Matt Wilson | The Wicked + The Divine

In this episode Matt Wilson talks about American Ninja Warrior and his extensive works!

Topics include Matt doing an American Ninja-ish Warrior course, quality television editing, emotional manipulation, Matt’s accidental comic book origin story, when mom throws out your comics sob, the arcane past of coloring books, deciding not to draw comics, color storytelling when compared to the renaissance studios, recognition, working in studios, building long-term relationships with other creators, differences for creator-owned work, heading back to recolor Phonogram, we asked his favorite color ok so get over it, and what he’s reading!

Links:

• Books talked about on this show!
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Transcription:

Tia: We have a huge show. I think one of the biggest we’ve ever done. Am I right about that?

Slim: I am in total agreement.

Tia: I’m sitting here talking with not one, but two American Ninja Warriors named Matt.

Matt Wilson: Oh, I didn’t know that. I didn’t realize that.

Tia: One of them, Matt, aka Slim, you know from the podcast.

Slim: Yes, I’m here.

Tia: The other you might have seen some of his coloring work in books like “Paper Girls,” “Thor,” “Black Widow,” “Daredevil,” and of course, “The Wicked + the Divine.” I’m talking about the wonderful, extraordinary, and very busy Matt Wilson. Hi Matt.

Matt Wilson: Hey. How’s it going?

Slim: It’s going amazing. Let’s get the big stuff out of the way. This is what everyone came here to talk about. How great is American Ninja Warrior? I saw videos of you online doing a course. Can you walk us through your emotions? What was your heart feeling during that?

Matt Wilson: Yeah. I wanted to throw up even though I was just performing in front of a bunch of 13-year-olds and people just in this little local gym, but yeah. I can’t imagine actually doing it on TV. Best time ever. It was so much fun.

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