In this episode Kieron Gillen will be working on a video game comic whaaaaat yasss.
Topics include legend status, actual fandemonium, gods as pop stars, everything you’ve learned by 40 in one book, sentient rave dance floors, gamer life, hitting deadlines, and what he’s doing next!
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Kara: Welcome back to the New York Comic Con live stage. I’m here on the Twitch stage with my co-host Slim. I’m Kzam, we’re both from ComiXology, co-host the weekly comiXologist podcast, and we’re here with comics legend, Kieron Gillen. Welcome.
Kieron Gillen: Legend makes it sound I’ve died? So it’s like.. Thank you very much, though.
Kara: Your current book that everyone is going nuts over, is The Wicked + The Divine. Tell us a little bit about that nutty line that you had at your artist alley table earlier.
Kieron Gillen: It’s like literally, we’ve been signing since 9:30 this morning. We signed all yesterday. It’s generally cause of, Fandemonium, it’s like, oh no, sorry, the title of the second book is that. So yeah, lots of people in cosplay, people buying tee shirts of the characters. There’s a little bit of like, the book kind of becoming reality a bit, so it kind of starts feeding on itself, and you realize you’ve written a book about fame and celebrity and what art means to people, and you kind of realize, oh no, that’s what’s kind of happening around the book. If the actual TV show ever takes off, it would be amazing, but it would probably be very weird. Because, you know, a book about fame and stardom becomes an object. You end up facing, you know, a metacritique. But yes, it’s a lot of interesting times.
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