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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