Interview | Stephan Franck

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 our interview with Silver’s Stephan Franck!

Kara:  Here we are, C2E2, Kara and Matt, Kzam and Slim.

Matt:  We’re here.

Kara:  We’re alive.

Matt:  We’ve made it.

Kara:  We’re talking to Stephan Franck, creator of “Silver”, which is, I’ve got to say, one of my favorite comics right now, hands down.

Stephan Franck:  Thank you so much. That’s very awesome.

Kara:  I read this book before Matt did. My pitch to him for it was “Ocean’s 11” meets “Dracula”, but like the original Dracula book. It has that dark feel to it. Where did this idea come from?

Stephan:  First let me say that is the perfect pitch, because when I have like two seconds, I’ll say it’s Ocean’s 11 in Dracula’s castle.

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Interview | Drew Crowder

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 our interview with Tailwand’s Drew Crowder.

Kara:  OK. It’s Slim and Kzamm at C2E2. We’re here taking with Drew Crowder about his book, “Tailwands.” It’s the final day of the Con!

Drew:  I know.

Matt:  You are exuberant. I don’t know how you do it. I don’t know how much sleep you got last night?

Drew:  Tons! That’s my whole thing. I go to sleep early. Well, I wake up early. But still, I go to sleep early. Get a good night’s sleep. Let my art director do all the schmoozing.

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Interview |  Ed Siemenkowicz

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 our interview with Chrome and Dust’s Ed Siemenkowicz!

Kara: Welcome back, here we are. C2E2, continuing our exploration of the wonderful world of comiXology – submit. Right now, Matt and I are with Ed Siemenkowicz, creator of Chrome and Dust, a crazy twisting post apocalyptic/present day tale.

Matt: Yes, we’re in our podcast studio obviously.

Kara: Shady back alley freight area emergency exit danger zone.

Matt: I wanted to keep the veil up but you destroyed it.

Ed Siemenkowicz: Fix it in post.

Matt: Welcome to the show.

Ed: It’s good to be here. I’m glad you allowed me to electrocute these hamsters. I’m sorry for any buzzing you may hear. [Editor’s Note: we recorded this right next to a forklift ok.]

Matt: We’ll get that all in post. Your book starts off in black and white. Something has happened in that era where “s” has gone down bad. The female character goes to a bar, then she harkens back to a time where things were better. Then the issue ends with them going back to the present day. What made you want to start that book out in a “Mad Max” era, then go back to pre-Mad Max?

Ed: I was faced with the problem of too much story, not enough time. I initially was going to do it chronologically because being a kid of the 80s, I really wanted to have fun in the 80s, and I wanted to take all that crap and destroy it.

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Interview |  Scott Bachmann

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 our interview with Our Super Mom’s Scott Bachmann!

Kara:  We’re here as long as we can manage before getting kicked out.

Matt:  Our Super Mom is a book that I don’t think I’ve read from a major publisher. It’s a great, down to earth, story about a female superhero, who decides to semi‑retire with her husband/writer, and raise her kids. What made you want to create a story like that?

Scott:  Well, I had been writing a story that was a lot darker, grittier, your classic guy story. I wanted to do something that was lighter and fun. I was thinking something like Teen Titans, something to show the range of what I could do.

I was sitting at a convention, and I literally just looked out in the audience, and realized half the audience has become female. 

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Interview | Fabian Rangel, Jr

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 our interview with DOC UNKNOWN’S Fabian Rangel, Jr!

Matt:  We’re here with Kickstarter icon. I think he’s been he’s called on various paper articles that have been written about him.

Kara:  No pressure.

Matt: Fabian Rangel, Jr. “Doc Unknown.”

Fabian:  Yeah. That’s the book that I do, one of the many books.

Matt:  I think you gained notoriety through Doc Unknown and Kickstarter, You’ve put it through Kickstarter. Then it hit comiXology. Why go through that route as opposed to beating down publishers’ doors. Maybe you did, but what eventually brought you to Kickstarter?

Fabian:  You’re right. I did pitch Doc Unknown at first, got various rejection emails or silence. But I really believed in it. I was like, “No, man. I think people would dig it.” It’s not just because when I wrote it, I’m like, “I’m super amazing.” I was like, “I really do think that there is an audience for this book.”

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Interview | Christian Sager & Kelly Williams

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 our interview with The Cabinet’s Christian Sager & Kelly Williams!

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Kara:  While I was reading the book, every page that I flipped past I was just like, “It’s more intense. How did it get more intense??

Christian:  That’s good. I feel like we accomplished something there. That was what we were going for, for sure.

Matt:  Anytime you have a hand exploding in a vice… It’s like, "OK. We just hit a next level now. This is real.”

Kelly Williams:  That’s one of my personal favorite parts.

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Interview | Sean Dulaney

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 our interview with F. Stein’s Sean Dulaney!

Matt: Who would you want consulting on a case that you need help with better than “Frankenstein.” What made you want to make this book?

Sean:  It started with “Digital Webbing Presents” anthology back in the early 2000’s. It was really a chance for a lot of creators on the Digital Webbing forums who wanted to break into comics to give something out there.

With artists, you could always show pages but we have a lot of writers on the boards. You can’t just go up and say, “Here’s my idea Mr. Publisher, take it.”

They want to see stuff done and created. They want to see you do the work and the anthology was an opportunity for that and we have a lot of artists, a lot of writers go on and get published work through Marvel, DC, through Image.

Ryan Stegman and Ryan Ottley, those are just two of the artists that came through. Mahmud Asrar is working on Marvel books now. A lot of artists have moved on and a few writers have as well.

Matt:  What is Digital Webbing anyway?

Sean:  It started out as one of the old news sites back in the day. The forum is still there and it’s basically a message board forum where aspiring creators can meet each other, talk to each other, post their work, and get peer critiques.

It’s one of those situations where you can show it to your family and they’ll jump, “Oh that’s so nice, you’re so smart, you’re so talented,” and in my mind it could be complete crap.

This way, you get the input from your fellow creators and a lot of pros who are on the board as well at that time. They still are and they get on and will tell you, “This is what you’re doing right. This is what you’re doing wrong.”

Your grandmother doesn’t know anything about anatomy. Like I said, from that came what was supposed to be a one issue anthology, they wound up going about 36 issues, while people graduated to the big leagues from it.

F. Stein was one of the features in the book. I submitted it in September of 2001, and we showed up in the 50th issue, which was a Halloween issue ‑‑ Eric Powell did a Goon cover. It was a great launch, but it was one four‑page story. Ed Dukeshire, the editor, liked it, so, "OK. Good concept. What’s next?”

Kara:  Ha!

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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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Interview | JD Oliva

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!

Matt:  Kara, we’re back at our podcast studio right here. We paid a lot of money for this studio. [Editor’s Note: We were in a random aisle on the con floor.]

Kara:  Still haven’t gotten kicked out, let’s hope it stays that way.

Matt:  The acoustics are great. JD Oliva is here. You have a book, “Deluge,” which is probably my top five Submit book. It takes place in New Orleans and everything’s flooded and there’s corruption happening. And it just knocked me over when I first started reading it. I wasn’t expecting it at all. What put you on the path to that book?

JD:  Honestly, I made a short film in New Orleans in 2008. I’m from Chicago, there’s a huge film Chicago/New Orleans connection, so a lot of my friends in the business live and work in New Orleans and we were trying to make our own film with John Wesley Shipp, who actually starred in “The Flash.”

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