Episode Summary

On this episode of The Corner Box, Eisner Award Nominee, Dave Baker, joins hosts John Barber and David Hedgecock in this two-part conversation to talk about why we shouldn’t mix alcohol and Whatnot, the Earl Mac Rauch experience, the toxic tropes in legendary comics, the truth about ‘making it’ in comics, the path in comics vs other artistic media, and the ever-shifting age categories in books.

Stick around for part 2 of this conversation of The Corner Box vs Dave Baker.

Timestamp Segments

·       [01:25] A Whatnot cautionary tale.

·       [09:23] Buckaroo Banzai.

·       [10:37] Meeting Earl Mac Rauch.

·       [14:51] The Prisoner.

·       [18:00] Toxic tropes in comics.

·       [26:32] Dave’s background.

·       [32:02] Has Dave made it?

·       [35:20] The missing path in comics.

·       [37:34] The shifting age categories in books.

Notable Quotes

·       “You have 10,000 bad drawings before you get to one good one.”

·       “I don’t think there is a ‘making it’ in comics.”

Relevant Links

www.thecornerbox.club

www.heydavebaker.com.