28 March 2010

!50 INTERVIEWS 50!

In order to combat some recent bad hoodoo, I am going to gloat here for a spell. Now I freely admit that I may or may not have been stoned earlier when this refreshing tidbit of news dawned on me. Regardless, as of today and including the three currently in progress, I have conducted fifty comic book-related interviews, since I began this path back around January of ought-seven.
Fifty interviews.

This is not counting the interview I very reluctantly had to turn down with famed and still sexy actress Nichelle Nichols, nor the interview that has been a one-year and running scheduling frustration with comic writer/horseman/swordsman/actor/voice of the current Transformers film franchise's Bumblebee Mark Ryan.
Moreso, I can think of another baker's dozen from my time at ComicNews.Info that I had some hand in, even if not actually conducting. From lining up initially to proofreading and/or editing and/or packaging (like questing for linkage and pix, etc).
Moreso yet, between my interviewing for one of my blog groups, as well as the now two(!) magazines, I have ten more thus far scheduled for over the next few months. This is not considering that time last year when Chuck Dixon presented me with his card, or the offer I extended recently to gentleman John Reppion.
I might well be unemployed right now, but by golly am I busy.

Something else to consider now, and all comments are indeed welcome, is the notion of collecting these interviews into a singular print volume for sale. I own all of these articles, and even when I acting in common decency reacquire permissions from each and every one of said fifty-plus names for reprinting, should I be looking to magcloud or lulu? A good POD to give more folks a chance to, via several hundred and growing page floppy pamphlet of groovy, to get to better know guys like...
My very first for ComicNews.Info, the GOD of mini-comix Sam Henderson.
A first group interview, with the creators of the world's first and only self-published motion comic, Cardboard Gods.
Living legend and all-round cool S.O.B. Mike Grell.
Finnish film and video director Timo Vuorensola.
Spider-Man voice actor (and boyband survivor) Josh Keaton.
Writers like Bobby Nash, Adam David Gragg, Mark Ellis, and S. Steven Strubble.
Artists like Todd Nauck, Micah Gunnell, Roman Morales III, and Richard Serrao.
Publishers like John B. Lai, Jason Thibault, and Peter Simeti.
Filmmakers like Scott Marcano, B. Alex Thompson, and Kevin VanHook.
so many more, too.
Would people be at all willing to pay money for this, to see the thoughts and words of so many fantastic creative forces? And these are great artists and authors and thinkers the world over. Old and young, rookie to veteran of their craft.


postscript-
Apparently, I ain't so antisocial after all. huh.

1 comments:

nilskidoo said...

Right, 52 interviews. That's what I wrote innit?