The Pants Quandary

Episode 5 | Dave Maass, Author & Patrick Lay, Illustrator


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Author Dave Maass and Illustrator Patrick Lay walk us through collaboration, compromise, and commitment to staying the course through the lens of their work adapting Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann’s suppressed 1943 opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis into their acclaimed 2024 graphic novel Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis.  Side quests include some pretty solid and totally worthy idol worship of Dark Horse Comics’ Karen Berger, how finished is better than perfect even though there will always be what-ifs and could'ves, and how every interview should come with someone whipping out a viola.

Go here for video: https://youtu.be/nu9CMjwflEs 

Go here to learn about Death Strikes: https://bit.ly/46MM41I

Go here to learn about Der Kaiser von Atlantis: https://www.hollywoodbowl.com/musicdb/pieces/4123/the-emperor-of-atlantis

Go here to watch a clip from the Louisville Orchestra production featuring Dave and Patrick’s work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f81kGzl58Q



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Special thanks to Matthew Ward for creating the show art, to Jessica Mays https://jessmaysmusic.com for composing and mixing the theme music, to Susanna Klein https://www.practizma.com/, Sonya Stith Williams, and Jordan Gunn https://www.jordangunn.org/ for recording it, and to Tiffany Valvo https://www.tiffanyvalvo.com/ for being a creative tech wizard hype machine.

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The Pants QuandaryBy Catherine Beeson