December 10, 2018

Attila Adorjany

53 minutes

For this episode Speech Bubble is coming to you live in front of an audience on Halloween Weekend 2018 at Hairy Tarantula's Hairoween Party at their new location at 3456 Yonge Street in Toronto, Ontario Canada. The show is a sort of coming out party for Aaron's guest Attila Adorjany, since a huge re-branding project for a massive corporation took him out of the comic scene for a very long time. Now he's back miking his special effects background with a new custom toy company of his own making called Titly Toys where he's making mini cthulhu figures, zombie Hello Kitty (Goodbye Kitty) and a collection of figures called The Dirty Dozen – an anthropomorphic donut army that's in a lot of ways a G.I. Joe satire (Yo Dough!). His followers on instagram have also been treated to his Kaiju Kars series of drawings mashing popular characters with popular cars from pop culture, like the Demogorgon from Stranger Things driving the Scooby-Do Mystery Machine in a drawing called Stranger Danger. Other artists have been invited to contribute and these drawings will be made into collectible cards akin to Garbage Pail Kids and may one day be made into Hot Wheels like toys themselves.

Before corporate work took him away from comics, he'd worked for independent publishers like the now defunct Speakeasy on various comics and covers. He'd worked on comic adaptions for Planet of the Apes, Beowulf and Warhammer. His Shuster nominated webcomic Metaphysical Neuroma was best known for breaking the form of comics and they could be read -- sending readers down various, interactive, “Choose Your Own Adventure” rabbit holes. Now he's doing a new comic spinning out of the pages of the Monstrosity anthology called XuluKhan.

In the pod we talk about all of these projects, as well as his take on artistic toys from artists like Ron English, his fascination with diner culture, his appearance as a goon in movies like Dirty Work starring Norm MacDonald and his background being raised by two amazing artists himself. He wanted to be a stuntman, he worked in a mannequin factory and that lead him to special effects, storyboarding and motion graphics. Attila is a true artist --- in the sense that he has done a little of everything – and we get cerebral in tracing his artistic journey and parsing out the importance of impermanence in his artistic philosophy. This podcast is sponsored by and recorded at Hairy Tarantula.

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