Holy crap. This week I'm interviewing Shelly Bond. When I first set out to make this show, I made a dream list of people to get on my show and she was on the list! Then, friend of the pod Kris Simon edited an anthology with her called Insider Art that's RIGHT NOW on Kickstarter, and BOTH of them came on to geek out about editing and tell me all about this book.
So, this episode is a twofer, not only did one of my favorite humans, Kris Simon, co-editor of the Cthulhu is Hard to Spell: The Terrible Twos anthology, come on the show, but Shelly FRIGGING Bond came on the show, too.
If you don't know Shelly Bond's work, then just pick up any Vertigo title and there's a good chance her editing fingerprint is all over it. She helped mold and grow the Vertigo line and has worked on over 1,100 comics titles according to ComicsVine, along with rising up to become executive editor at Vertigo from 2013-2016 and having her own imprint at IDW called Black Crown.
She's a comics legend, basically.
If you don't remember Kris, she was on the show in March during our Cthulhu is Hard to Spell: The Terrible Twos campaign. She's edited just about everybody in comics as well, including ME, which makes her Wannabe Press royalty.
Listen to this episode if you want to learn:
How to become a world-class editor
How to work and choose the right editor for your project
How to get the best out of the people you work with
Why passion is the key to making a great comic
...and much more.
Most importantly, Shelly and Kris have a Kickstarter campaign going right now for an incredibly cool anthology called Insider Art, which is a love letter to editing and the art of making comics. I have bought both the ebook AND the print book, and highly recommend it.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sxbond/insider-art
And while you're on Kickstarter, I ALSO have a campaign going right now for my book Ichabod Jones: Monster Hunter.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/russellnohelty/ichabod-jones-volume-1-2-a-lovecraftian-dark-fantasy-comic
Go back both books today, especially since Shelly's book only has a couple days left on it.
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