Process

In association with the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival, Chip Zdarsky was recently inerviewed by Kieron Gillen at Gosh! Comics in Soho and you can hear their chat here!

While many people's first exposure to Chip (aka real Canadian person Steve Murray) has been via his artwork on Sex Criminals, he has been writing and drawing comics since the early 2000's. And those comedy writing chops - honed in newspaper humour columns and cartoons - have served him well on his other projects, including creator-owned sci-fi adventure Kaptara, Archie staple Jughead, and numerous Marvel books, including Howard the Duck and the recent back-to-basics Spidey book Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man.

Kieron is the multi-award winning writer of - among others - Phonogram, The Wicked + The Divine, Darth Vader and Star Wars: Doctor Aphra. One of the most influential British comics writers of the last decade, he's always sure to have a fresh perspective. Between that, and his celebrated career in games journalism, he's sure to take the interview in interesting, unexpected directions.

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Presented in association with Gosh! Comics.
This year marks the milestone 25th anniversary of Image Comics. Here, in a discussion recorded at Gosh! Comics in Soho, our panelists talk about how they’ve seen the industry change since the company’s founding in 1992, what impact it had on their own careers and the titles that still influence their work today, and give broader speculation on where Image Comics can push the boundaries of what’s expected in comics for the future.

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Tillie Walden is the creator of The End Of Summer, one of the best books released so far this year and one of the most impressive debuts in comics for many a year.
We talk about Tillie's work on the book, her life as a student at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont and how the insights she gained from living in three very different States have woven their way into her work.

You can order a copy of The End Of Summer from averyhillpublishing.com

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As part of the Sequential City show at the Anise Gallery earlier in the year we gathered together Owen D. Pomery, Alison Sampson and Tim Bird, who all had work in the show, and Neil Kahawatte, an architect with little previous contact with comics, to discuss their work and the wider relationship between comics and the built environment.

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We talk to the team behind Metroland about the nature of collaboration, how their creative relationship has developed across the life of the project and the other work they undertake individually as publishers and distributors.

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Recorded live at Holdfest earlier in the year, we talk to Babak Ganjei about the scope of his creativity, which takes in a large number of different media, and try and find a unifying theme that ties together his comics and non-comics work.

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This episode was recorded when Georgia stopped off at Gosh! Comics on her way back from Angouleme earlier this year.
We talk about her experience of the festival, her work at the Toronto Comics Art Festival and her own project, DUMB, which relates her experience with voice loss in comic form.

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The second part of the interview focuses on the 2000AD years but we also talk about Pat's post-2000AD work on the likes of Marshal Law and Third World War and his more recent work in France.

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In the first installment of an epic interview that covers his entire career, Pat talks about his early work in Humour and Romance comics before going into detail about his role in reinventing boys adventure comics in the 70's with titles like Battle and Action.
Pat also shares what he has learnt about developing characters and strips from reader feedback and the often overlooked role of the depiction of class in comics.

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This week we talk to David White from Avery Hill Publishing, a comics micropublisher based in South London.
David tell us about the mechanics of working with creators, the value of having a healthy creative relationship with your publisher and the importance of an organically diverse backlist.

To see that backlist go to averyhillpublishing.com 

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