Posts Tagged Robot 6
No Interviews This Week, with Apologies
Unfortunately, as things timed out over the past several weeks I have exhausted my interview backlog more quickly than expected. Poor planning and timing on my part, I’ll fully concede. I apologize.
In the interim, please feel free to enjoy these interviews I recently did for Robot 6 with Jim Ottaviani, Michael Dowers, James Kochalka, Jim Rugg and Ho Che Anderson.
Interviews Delayed
Most of the time I have an inventory of interviews to run, but in recent weeks, I’ve been making it week to week. This past week, it just did not time out well. I hope to get back on schedule this week, but can make no promises. In the good news department, I was able to score a quick mini-interview that I will be posting later today.
Over at Robot 6, last week I had the pleasure of taking part in one of the best interviews I’ve gotten to do–with Joe the Barbarian artist Sean Murphy. Murphy gets the credit for the interview’s greatness.
Celebrating One Year of Robot 6
Posted by admin in Uncategorized, comics on January 3, 2010
Robot 6: Guy Davis
Over at my group comic book blog home, Robot 6, we are celebrating one year of blogging fun by unleashing a deluge of new content and site exclusives. Plus, I get to interview Cully Hamner. Also Guy Davis did this great piece of art in celebration of our anniversary (colored by the great Dave Stewart).
Caryn A. Tate on Red Plains
Caryn A. Tate's Red Plains
Since I joined Robot 6 earlier this year, my webcomics and overall sequential art interviews have run there, for the most part, rather than here. But given that Red Plains writer Caryn A. Tate was already interviewed by fellow great Robot Sixer Brigid Alverson recently (go read it, it’s a great interview [thanks to Alverson's questions and Tate's answers] as is this one [again, thanks to Tate's answers]), I opted to give Tate a slot here at my home site to discuss her work at Top Shelf 2.0, Top Shelf’s online comics program. I’m always happy to support a Top Shelf creator, partially as I often say, because I consider the publisher to be my home team (both the publisher and myself are Georgia-based). As detailed in a recent Top Shelf press release: “Written by Red Plains series creator Caryn A. Tate and featuring beautifully and brutally rendered art by Larry Watts, ‘A Nice Place to Raise Your Kids Up’ focuses on the violence, corruption, and crime of the Old West that is seldom deeply explored. While other towns may have tried it, can guns really be outlawed in a place like Red Plains? Sheriff Doles, the recently appointed lawman in Red Plains, may find himself out of a job–if he doesn’t lose his life first. As a new family comes to Red Plains, meet the Escovido clan and find out what role to they have to play in all of this. Who will vie for the favor of the vivacious Lupe, and who will be scarred in the attempt? How many people will be calling on Doc DeGraff–and how many more on the undertaker?” My thanks to Tate for her time. Be sure to go back and visit Top Shelf 2.0 site frequently, as there will be new Red Plains chapters every two weeks.
Tim O’Shea: What attracts you to telling this tale in particular–why as a comic, as opposed to prose?
Caryn A. Tate: The tale of Red Plains is one that’s really dear to me. I grew up and lived in the West on working ranches and farms, being around Western people, and there’s a distinct beauty to the land, its lifestyles, its people. I’ve been passionate about telling our stories for a long time, and Red Plains is the culmination of all of that.
I love comics, and one of the reasons I think the medium is so satisfying as a creator is because the final result manifests faster than prose work. And I’m a very visual writer – I have a visual art background – so I tend to see things very clearly and I have a desire to see that on the page. But, that said, I do love prose too, so who knows?
Other Interviews to Consider
Robot 6
I’ll be posting another interview later this evening, but it looks like I am fast approaching the end of my ability to post two interviews a week .
I may be able to post two interviews next week, but if not I hope to start doing some non-interview posts of interest. I am, as always, open to suggestions.
The past few weeks have been busy in terms of interviews at Robot 6 as well. In case you missed any, here are links to several of the pieces:
- Nick Tapalansky & Alex Eckman-Lawn on Awakening
- Nevin Martell on Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip
- Dustin Harbin on Storytelling
- Mark Waid on the Unknown
- Tim Hall on Uplift the Postivicals
If that’s not enough here’s a link to all my Robot 6 interviews or a link to all my interviews here at Talking with Tim.
Martinbrough, Yost and My Thoughts on Jay Leno
Posted by admin in late night TV on September 15, 2009
How to Draw Noir Comics
The past few days have included two of my interviews running at Robot 6. In the first one, I got a chance to speak with Shawn Martinbrough, about both his book How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling as well his current work on Marvel’s Luke Cage Noir. Then yesterday, I enjoyed a discussion with writer Christopher Yost on his writing of DC Comics’ Red Robin series.
In other news, I’m working on more pop culture interviews for this fine blog. Until the Internet logistical stars align and I have some new interviews to run, I will try to boost the level of unique content I have at this site. With the recent upgrade, I find it much easier to update the blog and give it the look I prefer.
I was never a fan of Jay Leno’s Tonight Show. When he retired, and Conan O’Brien took over, it was the first time I could watch it since the retirement of the late, great Johnny Carson. I sincerely doubt I could objectively review an episode of Leno’s new show. Heck I cannot even bring myself to link to it in this post. My personal dislike of Leno originates with his late former manager, Helen Kushnick. As amazingly detailed in Bill Carter’s The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno, and the Network Battle for the Night, Kushnick set the wheels in motion for Johnny Carson’s early retirement and for Leno to take his place.
Leno always claimed he never knew the mercenary tactics and stunts she pulled to get Leno where he wanted to be. But really, Leno avoided knowing about her methods until her conduct got so out of control that NBC had to fire her. In my mind, Letterman should have been the only one to replace Carson. And as evidenced by the fact that Carson never again appeared on the Tonight Show, but made appearances on Letterman’s CBS show, that’s what Carson thought as well. I always loved that toward the end of his life, Carson actually started writing jokes for Letterman’s monologue. Letterman waited (in accordance with Carson’s wishes one assumes) until after Carson’s passing to acknowledge this arrangement.
Anyways, I think I’ve established I’m no fan of Leno’s. So it warmed my heart to read the following line in LA Times TV critic Mary McNamara’s review of the first episode: “It’s not a good sign when the Bud Light commercial is funnier than the comedy show it interrupts.”
On another note, in double-checking Kushnick’s spelling of her name, I ran across this amazing EW piece by Dana Kennedy about Kushnick’s final years (she died in 1996)–where to her credit she made peace with family and friends from whom she’d been estranged for many years. For years, I always regard Kushnick only in terms of her conduct managing Leno, so to see her in this light (as a genuine person, not just an entertainment executive) was valuable perspective.
Thanks for Your Patience
Posted by admin in Music, Uncategorized, comics on September 10, 2009
I’d really like to thank GoDaddy for bailing me out the other night. As you can see, the blog has a new look. Hope you like it.
Unfortunately, I’m still trying to rebuild the inventory of interviews, as I have several in the pipeline, but none to post this week.
Over at Robot 6, I interviewed Joshua Hale Fialkov, so please visit that interview to tide you over for this week.
And for my wife, because she always supports this blog, a Beatles performance to celebrate the re-release of the Beatles music this week. And my way of thanking her for all she does for me and our family.
Two New Robot 6 Interviews and A Little Toth Love
Posted by admin in sequential art on April 21, 2009
On Saturday, I ran an interview with Park Cooper regarding Gun Street Girl at Robot 6. That can be found here.
Then today, I email interviewed Esther Pearl Watson on Unlovable.
And in between, I talked a little bit about what I’m currently reading in terms of sequential art. Fatagraphics’ Blazing Combat features a few stories from the late Alex Toth (as well as many other talented artists). Who is Toth? Well among his many accomplishments, he’s the fellow that designed the look for Hanna Barbera’s Space Ghost and Super Friends.
Popgun Editors Interviewed @ Robot 6
I have a new interview up at Robot 6 with Mark Andrew Smith and D.J. Kirkbride, the editors of Popgun Volume 3.
Change is Good
Posted by admin in pop culture on February 2, 2009
I’m about a month late on acknowledging some changes at the blog, but honestly I held off–making sure I liked the changes from all angles. And I’m happy to say that I do.
First off, I’ll no longer be interviewing comic creators here at Talking with Tim. Why? Because as some of you hopefully already know, I have started a new column at Robot 6, called Talking Comics with Tim. There you can join me every Monday afternoon for an interview with a comics creator or pundit.
This move allows me to cover a great deal more of pop culture ground with my email interviews here. New interviews will be posted here on every Wednesday. I’m really hoping that I can get feedback from you the reader as to projects and creators you would like me to interview. I’m open to suggestions and I look forward to hearing from you. On the interview front, be sure to come back this Wednesday.