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<\/iframe><\/p>\r\nIrish American actor\u00a0Glenn Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0appears on television twice the same week emerging December 3rd on the CBS action series\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the HBO hit comedy\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on December 5th. Keogh follows that up by heading to the big screen in the Marvel franchise film,\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em><\/strong>, releasing in theaters on December 17th.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the upcoming \u201cA Fire in the Ashes\u201d episode of\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em>, Keogh steps into the action as Parkes, when Magnum (Jay Hernandez) starts following Higgins (Perdita Weeks), who has been secretly assigned to infiltrate a group threatening to take down MI-6.<\/span><\/p>\r\nSwitching gears and going for laughs, Keogh enters into the acclaimed Larry David comedy series,\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em>, during the episode \u201cIrma Kostroski.\u201d The semi-improvised storyline is being kept under wraps, but revolves around Larry\u2019s latest predicament at work.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAudiences can also catch Keogh in theaters everywhere as part of the latest adventure facing Marvel\u2019s web-spinning superhero in\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em>. Directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man, whose identity now revealed, forces Peter into asking Doctor Strange for help.<\/span><\/p>\r\nKeogh is thrilled to have not one, not two, but three roles hitting screens in December, adding \u201cI was truly blessed to get to work my acting chops this year across these roles, in Honolulu, Atlanta and Los Angeles. All very different characters and a ton of fun to get to play in the Marvel, Curb and Magnum worlds! Excited to see them play out on screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFans will recall Keogh from his first Marvel adventure as the mischievous alien \u2018TROK\u2019 from\u00a0<\/em>Season 6 of ABC\u2019s beloved series,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. He also gained attention for starring alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Atkins in the sci-fi indie feature film,\u00a0Encounter,\u00a0<\/em>and for appearing in Michael Bay\u2019s blockbuster action film,\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Keogh proved a standout as King Fergus on ABC\u2019s fairytale fantasy drama,\u00a0Once Upon a\u00a0<\/em>Time, and recurring as Sean O\u2019Brien, father of Walter (Elyes Gabel), on the CBS drama,\u00a0Scorpion<\/em>. Keogh has worked all over the world in film and television projects including prominent roles in\u00a0Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan, The O.A., Criminal Minds, NCIS, Castle, Undercovers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0New Girl.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Paula Wiseman chats with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh","post_excerpt":"LA based Irish actor","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"paula-wiseman-chats-with-la-based-irish-actor-glenn-keogh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:31:21","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:31:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207361","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207274,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_content":"With the release of his first novel,\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em> we are delighted to be joined by the multi-talented Dave Thomas. Dave is not only an actor but a comedian, writer, producer and director. We got a chance to sit down and chat with Dave bout his novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nSome of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can find out who I am by looking at my website<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davethomas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0davethomas.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0But here is a short rundown of some of the things I have done, pulled from my biography:<\/span><\/p>\nThough new to writing books, I have done every type of television in every capacity, from sketch comedy and sitcoms to reality and game shows, animation and one hour drama. I started his career in comedy, as a writer\/performer for the Emmy Award-winning NBC sketch comedy show\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. I co-wrote the movie\u00a0Spies Like Us<\/em>\u00a0with Dan Aykroyd and directed and co-wrote the MGM cult classic\u00a0Strange Brew\u00a0<\/em>with Rick Moranis. I wrote and performed on a Grammy Award nominated album for Polygram with Rick. I directed\u00a0The Experts<\/em>\u00a0starring John Travolta for Paramount. I was executive produced and starred in my own comedy series for CBS,\u00a0the Dave Thomas Show<\/em>. From 1993 to 1998, i wrote for and co-starred in 115 episodes of the ABC sitcom\u00a0Grace Under Fire<\/em>. While working on that show I created a game show called\u00a0Family Challenge<\/em>\u00a0and produced 144 episodes for the Family Channel. My company Maple Palm Productions produced movies for Fox and HBO \u2013 most notably\u00a0Ambushed\u00a0<\/em>(Courtney Vance, Virginia Masden, William Forsythe and Robert Patrick). I co-created and executive produced\u00a0America\u2019s Funniest People\u00a0<\/em>(ABC) with Vin DiBona and I was executive producer of\u00a0the<\/em> Dennis Miller Show<\/em>\u00a0for Tribune. In 2001, I founded an animation company called Animax Entertainment and produced animation series for ABC (Slacker Cats<\/em>), ESPN (Off Mikes<\/em>), and MTV (Popzilla and Big Box<\/em>) and Global television in Canada (Bob and Doug<\/em>). I won my second Emmy Award for Animax\u2019s ESPN show\u00a0\u201cOff Mikes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in 2006. Lured into drama writing by his pal, Hart Hanson, Dave wrote a spec script for\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Fox) that was produced in 2008 and then Hart asked Dave to join the writing staff of\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0for more than 50 episodes as a Consulting Producer. After three years with Bones, I was asked to join the writing staff of NBC\u2019s the\u00a0Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0also as a consulting producer. This year, along with the cast of SCTV, I produced a reunion show called\u00a0An Afternoon with SCTV<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix directed by Martin Scorcese. Currently, I am writing his second book entitled\u00a0The Perfect Life<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDid you always want to write a novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNo, writing a novel is something I didn\u2019t really think about until a couple of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat are some of the novels that you enjoy?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMy two favorite novels are\u00a0What Dreams May Come<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Matheson and\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Josh Bazell. I am now and always have been a fan of all of Max Allan Collin\u2019s work \u2013 especially his historical fictions\u00a0The Titanic Murders<\/em>,\u00a0Flying Blind<\/em>and\u00a0Ask Not<\/em>.\u00a0And my pal, Hart Hanson write a book called\u00a0The Driver<\/em>\u00a0which I really enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy Leighton started out as a pitch for a television series. I became frustrated with the lack of response and started writing it as a novel. After writing three chapters, I put it aside and continued with more TV work. Max Allan Collins read those three chapters and he encouraged me to write more. Max is a very generous person and he offered to help me get a book agent and a publisher. And then he said, \u201cBut what I\u2019d rather do is write it with you.\u201d Well, Max is a renowned mystery writer who has written more than 100 novels. I had written none. So I would have to be an idiot not to take him up on an offer like that. The truth is, even though I started the book without him, I probably would never have finished it if Max hadn\u2019t written it with me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nYou co-wrote\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton\u00a0with Max Allan Collins; how did that come about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA mutual friend, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), introduced Max and I at San Diego\u2019s Comicon. Max and I met in person there very briefly but hit it off and continued the friendship by phone even though Max is in Muscatine Iowa, and I am in Los Angeles. Of particular note: this is a COVID collaboration \u2013 Max and I were never in the same room for one second of the writing. It was all done on phone and Zoom calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBefore Max got involved, had you started to write the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYes, I wrote three chapters on my own, but only the Many Worlds sci-fi part. The mystery thread was not part of my original conception. That\u2019s something Max and I came up with after we started working on the book together.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow would you describe\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very strange little sci fi mystery thriller. It\u2019s a mix of police detective work and the theoretical ideas in quantum physics. The book tells the story of a small-time thief (Jimmy Leighton) who flees South Boston to escape from a Vietnamese gangster. Hiding out in Cambridge, Jimmy needs money and breaks into the house of a M.I.T. Physicist who happens to be running a quantum experiment in his basement based on the work of Princeton Physicist Hugh Everett III. Nosey little Jimmy connects the wrong outlet to the wrong cable from a stack of quantum batteries and finds himself transported to another version of his life 1000 miles away in Chicago. And that is only the beginning of his adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell about Jimmy Leighton?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy is not the sharpest tool in the shed when the book starts out but the experience of living several versions of his life is kind of a quantum school. Jimmy finally figures it out and finds a way to get what he needs to be happy. He was an orphan from South Boston who bounced around in foster homes the social service\u2019s system. Abused by at least two foster fathers, Jimmy ran away and hit the streets, becoming a homeless panhandler at the age of 12. But he had incredible street smarts and managed to survive, dodging the law and other homeless folk who preyed upon kids like him. He started robbing houses when he was 14 and became a seriously successful second story man, respected by many in the Boston crime community.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did NeoText end up publishing the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMax had the connection to NeoText because he had written a book with them before he met me. And Max made the deal for the book. I knew it would be a difficult sell because it\u2019s a cross-genre book. It\u2019s a sci-fi and it\u2019s a detective mystery thriller. A lot of publishers won\u2019t take a chance on cross-genre. They worry that their readers won\u2019t understand it. Or that they may become frightened reading the book because it does not stay within the preconceived expectations they had for it. But John Schoenfelder at Neo Text is a very open-minded man. And he\u2019s very supportive of his artists \u2013 that\u2019s what he calls us. No one in my 40 years working for television and film ever called me an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat was it like co-writing with Max Allan Collins?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI was surprised by how much Max and I have in common. I was familiar with some of his work, but the fact is, he has written so many books that, to be aware of them all, would\u2019ve been impossible. For example, I\u2019m a historical student of the Titanic disaster but Max actually wrote a book about a fictitious murder that takes place on that fateful voyage. To write a novel where you play out the action onboard that ship necessitated doing an incredible amount of research. So, Max and I were able to swap stories on that. Same thing with the Kennedy Assassination. And a lot of other things. We became fast friends during our collaboration writing this book. And there\u2019s no better way to get to know someone than working together on a book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFay Dalton created a lovely illustration for\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton;\u00a0was that her composition, or did you suggest ideas for it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s definitely her composition. We gave her some suggestions, but it was Faye who came up with the actual cover for the book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping ComicBuzz readers like this book. I think it definitely conforms to the comic book style of writing. Both Max and I think very visually, and I believe we painted word pictures for our readers that they will enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say a big thank you to Dave for taking the time to chat with us and we wish him and Max the best of luck with their novel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Dave Thomas","post_excerpt":"The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-dave-thomas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:32:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:32:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207274","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":16},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_22"};</script></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4e19fa1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-epic_archive_pagination_elementor" data-id="4e19fa1" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="epic_archive_pagination_elementor.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="jeg_navigation jeg_pagination jeg_pagenav_1 jeg_aligncenter no_pageinfo"> Page 16 of 32 <a class="page_nav prev" data-id="15" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/">Previous</a> <a class='page_number' data-id='1' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/'>1</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='15' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/'>15</a> 16 <a class='page_number' data-id='17' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/'>17</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='32' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/32/'>32</a> <a class="page_nav next" data-id="17" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/">Next</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></section> \n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Rob Williams","post_excerpt":"\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-rob-williams","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:09:48","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:09:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207445","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207361,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_content":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Paula Wiseman chatted with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh about some of his upcoming movie and TV projects, and also about some of his amazing past work, including roles in 'Scorpion', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and 'Transformers - Age of Extinction<\/span>'.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Paula-Wiseman-chats-with-LA-based-Irish-actor--Glenn-Keogh-e1c0li4\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nIrish American actor\u00a0Glenn Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0appears on television twice the same week emerging December 3rd on the CBS action series\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the HBO hit comedy\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on December 5th. Keogh follows that up by heading to the big screen in the Marvel franchise film,\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em><\/strong>, releasing in theaters on December 17th.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the upcoming \u201cA Fire in the Ashes\u201d episode of\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em>, Keogh steps into the action as Parkes, when Magnum (Jay Hernandez) starts following Higgins (Perdita Weeks), who has been secretly assigned to infiltrate a group threatening to take down MI-6.<\/span><\/p>\r\nSwitching gears and going for laughs, Keogh enters into the acclaimed Larry David comedy series,\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em>, during the episode \u201cIrma Kostroski.\u201d The semi-improvised storyline is being kept under wraps, but revolves around Larry\u2019s latest predicament at work.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAudiences can also catch Keogh in theaters everywhere as part of the latest adventure facing Marvel\u2019s web-spinning superhero in\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em>. Directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man, whose identity now revealed, forces Peter into asking Doctor Strange for help.<\/span><\/p>\r\nKeogh is thrilled to have not one, not two, but three roles hitting screens in December, adding \u201cI was truly blessed to get to work my acting chops this year across these roles, in Honolulu, Atlanta and Los Angeles. All very different characters and a ton of fun to get to play in the Marvel, Curb and Magnum worlds! Excited to see them play out on screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFans will recall Keogh from his first Marvel adventure as the mischievous alien \u2018TROK\u2019 from\u00a0<\/em>Season 6 of ABC\u2019s beloved series,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. He also gained attention for starring alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Atkins in the sci-fi indie feature film,\u00a0Encounter,\u00a0<\/em>and for appearing in Michael Bay\u2019s blockbuster action film,\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Keogh proved a standout as King Fergus on ABC\u2019s fairytale fantasy drama,\u00a0Once Upon a\u00a0<\/em>Time, and recurring as Sean O\u2019Brien, father of Walter (Elyes Gabel), on the CBS drama,\u00a0Scorpion<\/em>. Keogh has worked all over the world in film and television projects including prominent roles in\u00a0Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan, The O.A., Criminal Minds, NCIS, Castle, Undercovers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0New Girl.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Paula Wiseman chats with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh","post_excerpt":"LA based Irish actor","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"paula-wiseman-chats-with-la-based-irish-actor-glenn-keogh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:31:21","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:31:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207361","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207274,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_content":"With the release of his first novel,\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em> we are delighted to be joined by the multi-talented Dave Thomas. Dave is not only an actor but a comedian, writer, producer and director. We got a chance to sit down and chat with Dave bout his novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nSome of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can find out who I am by looking at my website<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davethomas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0davethomas.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0But here is a short rundown of some of the things I have done, pulled from my biography:<\/span><\/p>\nThough new to writing books, I have done every type of television in every capacity, from sketch comedy and sitcoms to reality and game shows, animation and one hour drama. I started his career in comedy, as a writer\/performer for the Emmy Award-winning NBC sketch comedy show\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. I co-wrote the movie\u00a0Spies Like Us<\/em>\u00a0with Dan Aykroyd and directed and co-wrote the MGM cult classic\u00a0Strange Brew\u00a0<\/em>with Rick Moranis. I wrote and performed on a Grammy Award nominated album for Polygram with Rick. I directed\u00a0The Experts<\/em>\u00a0starring John Travolta for Paramount. I was executive produced and starred in my own comedy series for CBS,\u00a0the Dave Thomas Show<\/em>. From 1993 to 1998, i wrote for and co-starred in 115 episodes of the ABC sitcom\u00a0Grace Under Fire<\/em>. While working on that show I created a game show called\u00a0Family Challenge<\/em>\u00a0and produced 144 episodes for the Family Channel. My company Maple Palm Productions produced movies for Fox and HBO \u2013 most notably\u00a0Ambushed\u00a0<\/em>(Courtney Vance, Virginia Masden, William Forsythe and Robert Patrick). I co-created and executive produced\u00a0America\u2019s Funniest People\u00a0<\/em>(ABC) with Vin DiBona and I was executive producer of\u00a0the<\/em> Dennis Miller Show<\/em>\u00a0for Tribune. In 2001, I founded an animation company called Animax Entertainment and produced animation series for ABC (Slacker Cats<\/em>), ESPN (Off Mikes<\/em>), and MTV (Popzilla and Big Box<\/em>) and Global television in Canada (Bob and Doug<\/em>). I won my second Emmy Award for Animax\u2019s ESPN show\u00a0\u201cOff Mikes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in 2006. Lured into drama writing by his pal, Hart Hanson, Dave wrote a spec script for\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Fox) that was produced in 2008 and then Hart asked Dave to join the writing staff of\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0for more than 50 episodes as a Consulting Producer. After three years with Bones, I was asked to join the writing staff of NBC\u2019s the\u00a0Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0also as a consulting producer. This year, along with the cast of SCTV, I produced a reunion show called\u00a0An Afternoon with SCTV<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix directed by Martin Scorcese. Currently, I am writing his second book entitled\u00a0The Perfect Life<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDid you always want to write a novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNo, writing a novel is something I didn\u2019t really think about until a couple of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat are some of the novels that you enjoy?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMy two favorite novels are\u00a0What Dreams May Come<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Matheson and\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Josh Bazell. I am now and always have been a fan of all of Max Allan Collin\u2019s work \u2013 especially his historical fictions\u00a0The Titanic Murders<\/em>,\u00a0Flying Blind<\/em>and\u00a0Ask Not<\/em>.\u00a0And my pal, Hart Hanson write a book called\u00a0The Driver<\/em>\u00a0which I really enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy Leighton started out as a pitch for a television series. I became frustrated with the lack of response and started writing it as a novel. After writing three chapters, I put it aside and continued with more TV work. Max Allan Collins read those three chapters and he encouraged me to write more. Max is a very generous person and he offered to help me get a book agent and a publisher. And then he said, \u201cBut what I\u2019d rather do is write it with you.\u201d Well, Max is a renowned mystery writer who has written more than 100 novels. I had written none. So I would have to be an idiot not to take him up on an offer like that. The truth is, even though I started the book without him, I probably would never have finished it if Max hadn\u2019t written it with me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nYou co-wrote\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton\u00a0with Max Allan Collins; how did that come about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA mutual friend, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), introduced Max and I at San Diego\u2019s Comicon. Max and I met in person there very briefly but hit it off and continued the friendship by phone even though Max is in Muscatine Iowa, and I am in Los Angeles. Of particular note: this is a COVID collaboration \u2013 Max and I were never in the same room for one second of the writing. It was all done on phone and Zoom calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBefore Max got involved, had you started to write the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYes, I wrote three chapters on my own, but only the Many Worlds sci-fi part. The mystery thread was not part of my original conception. That\u2019s something Max and I came up with after we started working on the book together.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow would you describe\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very strange little sci fi mystery thriller. It\u2019s a mix of police detective work and the theoretical ideas in quantum physics. The book tells the story of a small-time thief (Jimmy Leighton) who flees South Boston to escape from a Vietnamese gangster. Hiding out in Cambridge, Jimmy needs money and breaks into the house of a M.I.T. Physicist who happens to be running a quantum experiment in his basement based on the work of Princeton Physicist Hugh Everett III. Nosey little Jimmy connects the wrong outlet to the wrong cable from a stack of quantum batteries and finds himself transported to another version of his life 1000 miles away in Chicago. And that is only the beginning of his adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell about Jimmy Leighton?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy is not the sharpest tool in the shed when the book starts out but the experience of living several versions of his life is kind of a quantum school. Jimmy finally figures it out and finds a way to get what he needs to be happy. He was an orphan from South Boston who bounced around in foster homes the social service\u2019s system. Abused by at least two foster fathers, Jimmy ran away and hit the streets, becoming a homeless panhandler at the age of 12. But he had incredible street smarts and managed to survive, dodging the law and other homeless folk who preyed upon kids like him. He started robbing houses when he was 14 and became a seriously successful second story man, respected by many in the Boston crime community.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did NeoText end up publishing the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMax had the connection to NeoText because he had written a book with them before he met me. And Max made the deal for the book. I knew it would be a difficult sell because it\u2019s a cross-genre book. It\u2019s a sci-fi and it\u2019s a detective mystery thriller. A lot of publishers won\u2019t take a chance on cross-genre. They worry that their readers won\u2019t understand it. Or that they may become frightened reading the book because it does not stay within the preconceived expectations they had for it. But John Schoenfelder at Neo Text is a very open-minded man. And he\u2019s very supportive of his artists \u2013 that\u2019s what he calls us. No one in my 40 years working for television and film ever called me an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat was it like co-writing with Max Allan Collins?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI was surprised by how much Max and I have in common. I was familiar with some of his work, but the fact is, he has written so many books that, to be aware of them all, would\u2019ve been impossible. For example, I\u2019m a historical student of the Titanic disaster but Max actually wrote a book about a fictitious murder that takes place on that fateful voyage. To write a novel where you play out the action onboard that ship necessitated doing an incredible amount of research. So, Max and I were able to swap stories on that. Same thing with the Kennedy Assassination. And a lot of other things. We became fast friends during our collaboration writing this book. And there\u2019s no better way to get to know someone than working together on a book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFay Dalton created a lovely illustration for\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton;\u00a0was that her composition, or did you suggest ideas for it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s definitely her composition. We gave her some suggestions, but it was Faye who came up with the actual cover for the book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping ComicBuzz readers like this book. I think it definitely conforms to the comic book style of writing. Both Max and I think very visually, and I believe we painted word pictures for our readers that they will enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say a big thank you to Dave for taking the time to chat with us and we wish him and Max the best of luck with their novel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Dave Thomas","post_excerpt":"The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-dave-thomas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:32:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:32:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207274","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":16},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_22"};</script></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4e19fa1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-epic_archive_pagination_elementor" data-id="4e19fa1" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="epic_archive_pagination_elementor.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="jeg_navigation jeg_pagination jeg_pagenav_1 jeg_aligncenter no_pageinfo"> Page 16 of 32 <a class="page_nav prev" data-id="15" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/">Previous</a> <a class='page_number' data-id='1' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/'>1</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='15' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/'>15</a> 16 <a class='page_number' data-id='17' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/'>17</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='32' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/32/'>32</a> <a class="page_nav next" data-id="17" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/">Next</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></section> \n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207569\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato4.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/p>","post_title":"Young Plato Interviews","post_excerpt":"David Rane","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"young-plato-interviews","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:53:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:53:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207514,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by the writer and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. The very talented Mr Cadwell has worked on numerous comics. Some of the comics he has worked on include: Nelson<\/em>, Lovecraft Anthology 2<\/em>, Sold State Tank Girl<\/em>, Samuari Jack<\/em>, Dangeritis<\/em>, Helena Crash<\/em> and Mr. Higgins Comes Home<\/em>.<\/span>\n\nHi Warwick, happy new year to you. It's a pleasure to have you here with us. <\/span><\/strong>As some of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nHello, and Happy New Year! <\/em>Falconspeare is my third book with Dark Horse comics and Mike Mignola, but before then came<\/em> Samurai Jack, Helena Crash, The Marionette Unit, Dangeritis, and Tank Girl. But aside from comics I have worked for publishers and in the animation industry. I\u2019m just a very enthusiastic drawer\/drawist.<\/em><\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the origins of Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nFalconspeare is the third book in a sort of series (at this stage they can still be read in any order) following the adventures of a group of vampire hunters of old. In this book we discover they shared their formative years with a fourth member,<\/em> James Falconspeare, and here we discover what has happened to him since the group last met many years before.<\/em><\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207518\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp1-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp1\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nHow would you describe the Falconspeare<\/em> graphic novel?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nIt\u2019s a vampire adventure of sorts. These books revel in the classic horror worlds <\/span>of Universal Studios and Hammer Horror, but have their own flavor too. They\u2019re <\/span><\/em>also inspired by Mike Mignola, who wrote the first book,<\/em> Mr. Higgins Comes Home. I <\/em><\/span>have tried to maintain a level of humor in there, too. But this is the darkest book of the three, I think.<\/span><\/em>\n\nFor our readers who are not familiar with Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan. What can you tell us about these characters?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThese are classic vampire adventurers, like Van Helsing or Professor Abronsius. <\/span>Professor Meinhardt is an academic expert in the supernatural, and Mr. Knox is a <\/span>compassionate and careful force for good. Ms. Mary Van Sloan is a spirited fighting <\/span>force. They\u2019re all enthusiastic and brave, but also pretty lucky in a world where the <\/span>forces of evil command a strong upper hand. And in this book we find that James <\/span>Falconspeare is the honorable, law-abiding champion of the group.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207519\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp2-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp2\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhen you were creating the graphic novel, did you write a full script?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI did, eventually. I\u2019m an artist mainly, and very interested in narrative. My process for the last two books was to firstly work out the story in sketches and thumbnails to <\/span>determine what I wanted to do. Then I turned that into a script, which I then redrew as roughs. The two sets of roughs either side of the script aren\u2019t easy to compare., <\/span>however, as the first is spread over many sketchbooks in many sizes and qualities over the course of a few years.<\/span><\/em>\n\nYou are the writer and artist on Falconspeare<\/em>; what do you enjoy being more a writer or an artist?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAn artist I think, but that\u2019s mainly because I\u2019m more comfortable with that aspect. I love getting to grips with writing, and I really enjoy working with word and images to create stories. I like working with writers very much, but I\u2019m really enjoying being in charge of both the script and art to model the stories.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207520\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp3-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nDo you have a favourite character from Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAh! That\u2019s tricky, because I like them all. The main three we\u2019ve already met in the other books get a chance to develop or reaffirm their characters, which is nice. But getting to introduce new characters is great, and there\u2019s plenty in this. There\u2019s a brief appearance from Meinhardt, Knox, and Sloan\u2019s very grumpy butler (Mr. Tuphold). He\u2019s only in a<\/span>couple of panels, but he makes me laugh, and I think he could be a great character in future. Such an angry old character.<\/span><\/em>\n\nCould we see more of Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan in the future?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI certainly hope so, though I\u2019ve got away with a lot so far. Drawing these books is <\/span>amazing fun, and every page throws up more ideas for more stories to tell. So, I hope we get to follow their crazy adventures further.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207521\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp4-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp4\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhat are you currently reading?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nMy reading goes all over the place, often a long way behind. And in that spirit, \u201cAcheron\u201d by Mike Mignola at Dark Horse was ace! Steeple by John Allison, too. I love that series. Kyle Starks and Chris Schweitzer\u2019s<\/em> 6 Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton (Image) was also awesome! Other than that, I\u2019m mainly rereading<\/em> The Tomb Of Dracula or<\/em> Dracula Lives.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nTry out Falconspeare? Follow me for art if they\u2019re keen on Instagram @wocco or <\/em><\/span>on Twitter @warwickjc.<\/em> But mainly I\u2019d encourage ComicBuzz readers to get drawing\/ reading or making. Anything. It\u2019s awesome fun.<\/em><\/span>\n\nA big thank you to Warwick Johnson-Cadwell for taking the time to chat with us. We would like to wish him and his team the best of luck with Falconspeare.<\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Warwick Johnson-Cadwell","post_excerpt":"Falconspeare","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-warwick-johnson-cadwell","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:04:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:04:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207514","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207445,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_content":"With the second issue of the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series out next week from Dark Horse Comics, we are so delighted to be joined by the co-writer of the comic, Rob Williams. Rob Williams has written numerous titles. Some of the titles he has worked on include\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>, Suicide Squad<\/em>,\u00a0Trinity<\/em>,\u00a0Action Comics<\/em>,\u00a0Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>,\u00a0Judge Dredd<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Rob, happy new year to you; it's great to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\nWe have been fans of your work ever since we read\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nThanks! Good memories!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did you get involved with the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019d just done a creepy gangsters-haunted-by-ghosts creator-owned book called Old Haunts\u00a0<\/em>via AWA Studios with Laurence Campbell. Laurence drew\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0for Mike Mignola and Dark Horse for a number of years, and had been talking to Mike and the guys about doing a Gall Dennar barbarian story. He asked if I\u2019d be interested in coming on to write the book, and I think the Hellboy team liked\u00a0Old Haunts<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat made you want to be a part of the Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0<\/em>miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWorking with Laurence is always a treat. He\u2019s brilliant, and one of my best friends. Working with Mike Mignola in the Hellboy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0world? Who wouldn\u2019t want to do that? I\u2019ve enjoyed those comics for the past couple of decades. It\u2019s a treat to be involved in that universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207448\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_1-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_1\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nHow would you describe the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe sword is an important weapon in the end times of the Hellboy\/B.P.R.D. story. It\u2019s a mythical blade much like Excalibur. Our series spans thousands of years and shows you four very different heroes who held the sword at various points before passing it on, allowing us to tell very Hellboy<\/em>-world tales in a Robert E. Howard-like barbarian landscape. Additionally we'll see stories set in World War I, World War II and finally the electric blues scene of Chicago in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series takes place in the world of\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>;\u00a0is the series new reader-friendly?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: We hope so. We\u2019ve certainly tried to make that the case. We had no interest in a big exposition-fest or historical tract. If you know the major points on the\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>\u00a0map, you\u2019ll get a kick out of the references. But really we have four heroes here, three of whom are brand new, and we want to send them on a journey and care about what happens to them. In introducing three new players who don\u2019t know the key facts of this world, readers are really in the same position as them, fighting against an evil they don\u2019t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207449\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_2-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_2\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nWhat is it like writing with Mike Mignola?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA treat, as I said. I\u2019ve been a fan for years. It\u2019s intimidating too, because Mike\u2019s one of the best writers we\u2019ve had in comics, and the level of people he collaborates with is extraordinarily high. But he was very welcoming and a great sounding board for Laurence and me. Mike had a plot in mind for Gall Dennar in issue #1, which we built out from. Then it was a case of a few Zoom calls discussing the world, and Mike leading us to a few places we should probably go. It was a really enjoyable experience.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe rest of the team for\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0consists of Laurence Campbell, Quinton Winter, Clem Robins and Dave Stewart. Were they already a part of the team when you joined the series?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nLaurence was onboard before me, yes. And then I think Laurence suggested colorist Quinton Winter, who lives near him. They know each other. Quinton coloured Unfollow<\/em>, a book of mine from Vertigo a few years ago, which Clem Robins also lettered. Small world. Dave Stewart had coloured Laurence's work on his B.P.R.D.<\/em> run, so he colored our covers.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhen you saw the art from Laurence Campbell and Quinton Winter, what did you think?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: I\u2019m very aware of what Laurence can do, having worked with him so often. He\u2019s a master of mood on the page, a brilliant storyteller. We wanted issue #1 to be an epic Terrence Malick-like quest across this incredible landscape from thousands of years ago, with evil priests, woolly mammoths, immense mountain ranges, and the odd pterodactyl. Laurence and Quinton have brought all that to such vivid life here.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207450\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_3-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_3\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nDo you have a favourite scene from the first issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: Gall Dennar, having been alone on his quest for years and sitting by a fire in the mountains, tripping on some barbarian concoction, calls out to his love from thousands of years in the future and a giant wolf spirit comes to talk to him. Laurence and Quinton did a phenomenal job there. It really feels magical.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell us about the second issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWe move the action through the Victorian London of Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder<\/em>\u00a0to the first ever zeppelin attacks on London, and then to Belgium in the First World War. A German agent called Graf Ling de Gotha is given a mission to find a cult that is undertaking strange ceremonies nearby, trying to summon something unnatural into the world\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207453\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_4-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_4\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can follow my work on Twitter @Robwilliams71 on Instagram on @Robwilliams1971 and on my website<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0Thanks!<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say thank you to Rob for his time and wish him and the team the best of luck with their series.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Rob Williams","post_excerpt":"\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-rob-williams","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:09:48","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:09:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207445","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207361,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_content":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Paula Wiseman chatted with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh about some of his upcoming movie and TV projects, and also about some of his amazing past work, including roles in 'Scorpion', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and 'Transformers - Age of Extinction<\/span>'.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Paula-Wiseman-chats-with-LA-based-Irish-actor--Glenn-Keogh-e1c0li4\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nIrish American actor\u00a0Glenn Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0appears on television twice the same week emerging December 3rd on the CBS action series\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the HBO hit comedy\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on December 5th. Keogh follows that up by heading to the big screen in the Marvel franchise film,\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em><\/strong>, releasing in theaters on December 17th.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the upcoming \u201cA Fire in the Ashes\u201d episode of\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em>, Keogh steps into the action as Parkes, when Magnum (Jay Hernandez) starts following Higgins (Perdita Weeks), who has been secretly assigned to infiltrate a group threatening to take down MI-6.<\/span><\/p>\r\nSwitching gears and going for laughs, Keogh enters into the acclaimed Larry David comedy series,\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em>, during the episode \u201cIrma Kostroski.\u201d The semi-improvised storyline is being kept under wraps, but revolves around Larry\u2019s latest predicament at work.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAudiences can also catch Keogh in theaters everywhere as part of the latest adventure facing Marvel\u2019s web-spinning superhero in\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em>. Directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man, whose identity now revealed, forces Peter into asking Doctor Strange for help.<\/span><\/p>\r\nKeogh is thrilled to have not one, not two, but three roles hitting screens in December, adding \u201cI was truly blessed to get to work my acting chops this year across these roles, in Honolulu, Atlanta and Los Angeles. All very different characters and a ton of fun to get to play in the Marvel, Curb and Magnum worlds! Excited to see them play out on screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFans will recall Keogh from his first Marvel adventure as the mischievous alien \u2018TROK\u2019 from\u00a0<\/em>Season 6 of ABC\u2019s beloved series,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. He also gained attention for starring alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Atkins in the sci-fi indie feature film,\u00a0Encounter,\u00a0<\/em>and for appearing in Michael Bay\u2019s blockbuster action film,\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Keogh proved a standout as King Fergus on ABC\u2019s fairytale fantasy drama,\u00a0Once Upon a\u00a0<\/em>Time, and recurring as Sean O\u2019Brien, father of Walter (Elyes Gabel), on the CBS drama,\u00a0Scorpion<\/em>. Keogh has worked all over the world in film and television projects including prominent roles in\u00a0Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan, The O.A., Criminal Minds, NCIS, Castle, Undercovers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0New Girl.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Paula Wiseman chats with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh","post_excerpt":"LA based Irish actor","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"paula-wiseman-chats-with-la-based-irish-actor-glenn-keogh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:31:21","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:31:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207361","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207274,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_content":"With the release of his first novel,\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em> we are delighted to be joined by the multi-talented Dave Thomas. Dave is not only an actor but a comedian, writer, producer and director. We got a chance to sit down and chat with Dave bout his novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nSome of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can find out who I am by looking at my website<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davethomas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0davethomas.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0But here is a short rundown of some of the things I have done, pulled from my biography:<\/span><\/p>\nThough new to writing books, I have done every type of television in every capacity, from sketch comedy and sitcoms to reality and game shows, animation and one hour drama. I started his career in comedy, as a writer\/performer for the Emmy Award-winning NBC sketch comedy show\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. I co-wrote the movie\u00a0Spies Like Us<\/em>\u00a0with Dan Aykroyd and directed and co-wrote the MGM cult classic\u00a0Strange Brew\u00a0<\/em>with Rick Moranis. I wrote and performed on a Grammy Award nominated album for Polygram with Rick. I directed\u00a0The Experts<\/em>\u00a0starring John Travolta for Paramount. I was executive produced and starred in my own comedy series for CBS,\u00a0the Dave Thomas Show<\/em>. From 1993 to 1998, i wrote for and co-starred in 115 episodes of the ABC sitcom\u00a0Grace Under Fire<\/em>. While working on that show I created a game show called\u00a0Family Challenge<\/em>\u00a0and produced 144 episodes for the Family Channel. My company Maple Palm Productions produced movies for Fox and HBO \u2013 most notably\u00a0Ambushed\u00a0<\/em>(Courtney Vance, Virginia Masden, William Forsythe and Robert Patrick). I co-created and executive produced\u00a0America\u2019s Funniest People\u00a0<\/em>(ABC) with Vin DiBona and I was executive producer of\u00a0the<\/em> Dennis Miller Show<\/em>\u00a0for Tribune. In 2001, I founded an animation company called Animax Entertainment and produced animation series for ABC (Slacker Cats<\/em>), ESPN (Off Mikes<\/em>), and MTV (Popzilla and Big Box<\/em>) and Global television in Canada (Bob and Doug<\/em>). I won my second Emmy Award for Animax\u2019s ESPN show\u00a0\u201cOff Mikes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in 2006. Lured into drama writing by his pal, Hart Hanson, Dave wrote a spec script for\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Fox) that was produced in 2008 and then Hart asked Dave to join the writing staff of\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0for more than 50 episodes as a Consulting Producer. After three years with Bones, I was asked to join the writing staff of NBC\u2019s the\u00a0Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0also as a consulting producer. This year, along with the cast of SCTV, I produced a reunion show called\u00a0An Afternoon with SCTV<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix directed by Martin Scorcese. Currently, I am writing his second book entitled\u00a0The Perfect Life<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDid you always want to write a novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNo, writing a novel is something I didn\u2019t really think about until a couple of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat are some of the novels that you enjoy?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMy two favorite novels are\u00a0What Dreams May Come<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Matheson and\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Josh Bazell. I am now and always have been a fan of all of Max Allan Collin\u2019s work \u2013 especially his historical fictions\u00a0The Titanic Murders<\/em>,\u00a0Flying Blind<\/em>and\u00a0Ask Not<\/em>.\u00a0And my pal, Hart Hanson write a book called\u00a0The Driver<\/em>\u00a0which I really enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy Leighton started out as a pitch for a television series. I became frustrated with the lack of response and started writing it as a novel. After writing three chapters, I put it aside and continued with more TV work. Max Allan Collins read those three chapters and he encouraged me to write more. Max is a very generous person and he offered to help me get a book agent and a publisher. And then he said, \u201cBut what I\u2019d rather do is write it with you.\u201d Well, Max is a renowned mystery writer who has written more than 100 novels. I had written none. So I would have to be an idiot not to take him up on an offer like that. The truth is, even though I started the book without him, I probably would never have finished it if Max hadn\u2019t written it with me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nYou co-wrote\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton\u00a0with Max Allan Collins; how did that come about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA mutual friend, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), introduced Max and I at San Diego\u2019s Comicon. Max and I met in person there very briefly but hit it off and continued the friendship by phone even though Max is in Muscatine Iowa, and I am in Los Angeles. Of particular note: this is a COVID collaboration \u2013 Max and I were never in the same room for one second of the writing. It was all done on phone and Zoom calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBefore Max got involved, had you started to write the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYes, I wrote three chapters on my own, but only the Many Worlds sci-fi part. The mystery thread was not part of my original conception. That\u2019s something Max and I came up with after we started working on the book together.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow would you describe\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very strange little sci fi mystery thriller. It\u2019s a mix of police detective work and the theoretical ideas in quantum physics. The book tells the story of a small-time thief (Jimmy Leighton) who flees South Boston to escape from a Vietnamese gangster. Hiding out in Cambridge, Jimmy needs money and breaks into the house of a M.I.T. Physicist who happens to be running a quantum experiment in his basement based on the work of Princeton Physicist Hugh Everett III. Nosey little Jimmy connects the wrong outlet to the wrong cable from a stack of quantum batteries and finds himself transported to another version of his life 1000 miles away in Chicago. And that is only the beginning of his adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell about Jimmy Leighton?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy is not the sharpest tool in the shed when the book starts out but the experience of living several versions of his life is kind of a quantum school. Jimmy finally figures it out and finds a way to get what he needs to be happy. He was an orphan from South Boston who bounced around in foster homes the social service\u2019s system. Abused by at least two foster fathers, Jimmy ran away and hit the streets, becoming a homeless panhandler at the age of 12. But he had incredible street smarts and managed to survive, dodging the law and other homeless folk who preyed upon kids like him. He started robbing houses when he was 14 and became a seriously successful second story man, respected by many in the Boston crime community.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did NeoText end up publishing the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMax had the connection to NeoText because he had written a book with them before he met me. And Max made the deal for the book. I knew it would be a difficult sell because it\u2019s a cross-genre book. It\u2019s a sci-fi and it\u2019s a detective mystery thriller. A lot of publishers won\u2019t take a chance on cross-genre. They worry that their readers won\u2019t understand it. Or that they may become frightened reading the book because it does not stay within the preconceived expectations they had for it. But John Schoenfelder at Neo Text is a very open-minded man. And he\u2019s very supportive of his artists \u2013 that\u2019s what he calls us. No one in my 40 years working for television and film ever called me an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat was it like co-writing with Max Allan Collins?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI was surprised by how much Max and I have in common. I was familiar with some of his work, but the fact is, he has written so many books that, to be aware of them all, would\u2019ve been impossible. For example, I\u2019m a historical student of the Titanic disaster but Max actually wrote a book about a fictitious murder that takes place on that fateful voyage. To write a novel where you play out the action onboard that ship necessitated doing an incredible amount of research. So, Max and I were able to swap stories on that. Same thing with the Kennedy Assassination. And a lot of other things. We became fast friends during our collaboration writing this book. And there\u2019s no better way to get to know someone than working together on a book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFay Dalton created a lovely illustration for\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton;\u00a0was that her composition, or did you suggest ideas for it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s definitely her composition. We gave her some suggestions, but it was Faye who came up with the actual cover for the book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping ComicBuzz readers like this book. I think it definitely conforms to the comic book style of writing. Both Max and I think very visually, and I believe we painted word pictures for our readers that they will enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say a big thank you to Dave for taking the time to chat with us and we wish him and Max the best of luck with their novel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Dave Thomas","post_excerpt":"The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-dave-thomas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:32:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:32:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207274","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":16},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_22"};</script></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4e19fa1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-epic_archive_pagination_elementor" data-id="4e19fa1" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="epic_archive_pagination_elementor.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="jeg_navigation jeg_pagination jeg_pagenav_1 jeg_aligncenter no_pageinfo"> Page 16 of 32 <a class="page_nav prev" data-id="15" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/">Previous</a> <a class='page_number' data-id='1' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/'>1</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='15' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/'>15</a> 16 <a class='page_number' data-id='17' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/'>17</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='32' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/32/'>32</a> <a class="page_nav next" data-id="17" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/">Next</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></section> \n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wz3JRdmLBsk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIf you\u2019ve made it this far into the interview, I sincerely from the bottom of my heart thank you for your interest. I really hope Follow the Dead tickles your fancy if you haven\u2019t yet seen it, and I hope you can check it out very soon. If you want to know what else I\u2019m doing outside of the realm of zombie flicks, my company is Wild Stag Productions. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using @wildstagmedia, or check out the official website at <a href=\"http:\/\/wildstagpoductions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildstagpoductions.com<\/a>. We\u2019re a media company that specializes in making Irish genre films. I basically want to make Irish versions of all my favourite genres, including a Western which I\u2019m writing at the moment. So yeah\u2026 thank you all for your time, and I hope you join us for the next part of our journey!<\/span><\/p>\nA big thank you to Adam for sitting and chatting with us; we wish him the best of luck with his film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.followthedead.com<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a><\/p>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Adam William Cahill","post_excerpt":"Follow the Dead","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-adam-william-cahill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:51:19","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:51:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207575","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207564,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the producers and directors of\u00a0<\/span>Young Plato, a\u00a0<\/span><\/em>documentary set in post-conflict Belfast.<\/span><\/p>\nAn observational documentary set in post-conflict Belfast\u2019s Ardoyne, where a marginalized, working-class community has for generations been plagued by poverty, drugs and guns. This film charts the dream of Headmaster Kevin McArevey and his dedicated visionary team, illustrating how critical thinking and pastoral care can empower and encourage children to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of their own community. We see how philosophy can encourage them to question the mythologies of war and of violence, and challenge the narratives of their community.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207571\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDavid Rane - Producer<\/span><\/p>\nNeasa Ni Chianain - Director<\/span><\/p>\nDeclan McGrath -<\/span> Co-Producer\/Director\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nKevin McArevey - Principal in the school<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207572\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato2-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato2\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207569\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato4.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/p>","post_title":"Young Plato Interviews","post_excerpt":"David Rane","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"young-plato-interviews","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:53:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:53:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207514,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by the writer and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. The very talented Mr Cadwell has worked on numerous comics. Some of the comics he has worked on include: Nelson<\/em>, Lovecraft Anthology 2<\/em>, Sold State Tank Girl<\/em>, Samuari Jack<\/em>, Dangeritis<\/em>, Helena Crash<\/em> and Mr. Higgins Comes Home<\/em>.<\/span>\n\nHi Warwick, happy new year to you. It's a pleasure to have you here with us. <\/span><\/strong>As some of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nHello, and Happy New Year! <\/em>Falconspeare is my third book with Dark Horse comics and Mike Mignola, but before then came<\/em> Samurai Jack, Helena Crash, The Marionette Unit, Dangeritis, and Tank Girl. But aside from comics I have worked for publishers and in the animation industry. I\u2019m just a very enthusiastic drawer\/drawist.<\/em><\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the origins of Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nFalconspeare is the third book in a sort of series (at this stage they can still be read in any order) following the adventures of a group of vampire hunters of old. In this book we discover they shared their formative years with a fourth member,<\/em> James Falconspeare, and here we discover what has happened to him since the group last met many years before.<\/em><\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207518\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp1-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp1\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nHow would you describe the Falconspeare<\/em> graphic novel?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nIt\u2019s a vampire adventure of sorts. These books revel in the classic horror worlds <\/span>of Universal Studios and Hammer Horror, but have their own flavor too. They\u2019re <\/span><\/em>also inspired by Mike Mignola, who wrote the first book,<\/em> Mr. Higgins Comes Home. I <\/em><\/span>have tried to maintain a level of humor in there, too. But this is the darkest book of the three, I think.<\/span><\/em>\n\nFor our readers who are not familiar with Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan. What can you tell us about these characters?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThese are classic vampire adventurers, like Van Helsing or Professor Abronsius. <\/span>Professor Meinhardt is an academic expert in the supernatural, and Mr. Knox is a <\/span>compassionate and careful force for good. Ms. Mary Van Sloan is a spirited fighting <\/span>force. They\u2019re all enthusiastic and brave, but also pretty lucky in a world where the <\/span>forces of evil command a strong upper hand. And in this book we find that James <\/span>Falconspeare is the honorable, law-abiding champion of the group.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207519\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp2-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp2\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhen you were creating the graphic novel, did you write a full script?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI did, eventually. I\u2019m an artist mainly, and very interested in narrative. My process for the last two books was to firstly work out the story in sketches and thumbnails to <\/span>determine what I wanted to do. Then I turned that into a script, which I then redrew as roughs. The two sets of roughs either side of the script aren\u2019t easy to compare., <\/span>however, as the first is spread over many sketchbooks in many sizes and qualities over the course of a few years.<\/span><\/em>\n\nYou are the writer and artist on Falconspeare<\/em>; what do you enjoy being more a writer or an artist?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAn artist I think, but that\u2019s mainly because I\u2019m more comfortable with that aspect. I love getting to grips with writing, and I really enjoy working with word and images to create stories. I like working with writers very much, but I\u2019m really enjoying being in charge of both the script and art to model the stories.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207520\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp3-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nDo you have a favourite character from Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAh! That\u2019s tricky, because I like them all. The main three we\u2019ve already met in the other books get a chance to develop or reaffirm their characters, which is nice. But getting to introduce new characters is great, and there\u2019s plenty in this. There\u2019s a brief appearance from Meinhardt, Knox, and Sloan\u2019s very grumpy butler (Mr. Tuphold). He\u2019s only in a<\/span>couple of panels, but he makes me laugh, and I think he could be a great character in future. Such an angry old character.<\/span><\/em>\n\nCould we see more of Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan in the future?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI certainly hope so, though I\u2019ve got away with a lot so far. Drawing these books is <\/span>amazing fun, and every page throws up more ideas for more stories to tell. So, I hope we get to follow their crazy adventures further.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207521\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp4-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp4\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhat are you currently reading?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nMy reading goes all over the place, often a long way behind. And in that spirit, \u201cAcheron\u201d by Mike Mignola at Dark Horse was ace! Steeple by John Allison, too. I love that series. Kyle Starks and Chris Schweitzer\u2019s<\/em> 6 Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton (Image) was also awesome! Other than that, I\u2019m mainly rereading<\/em> The Tomb Of Dracula or<\/em> Dracula Lives.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nTry out Falconspeare? Follow me for art if they\u2019re keen on Instagram @wocco or <\/em><\/span>on Twitter @warwickjc.<\/em> But mainly I\u2019d encourage ComicBuzz readers to get drawing\/ reading or making. Anything. It\u2019s awesome fun.<\/em><\/span>\n\nA big thank you to Warwick Johnson-Cadwell for taking the time to chat with us. We would like to wish him and his team the best of luck with Falconspeare.<\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Warwick Johnson-Cadwell","post_excerpt":"Falconspeare","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-warwick-johnson-cadwell","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:04:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:04:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207514","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207445,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_content":"With the second issue of the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series out next week from Dark Horse Comics, we are so delighted to be joined by the co-writer of the comic, Rob Williams. Rob Williams has written numerous titles. Some of the titles he has worked on include\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>, Suicide Squad<\/em>,\u00a0Trinity<\/em>,\u00a0Action Comics<\/em>,\u00a0Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>,\u00a0Judge Dredd<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Rob, happy new year to you; it's great to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\nWe have been fans of your work ever since we read\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nThanks! Good memories!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did you get involved with the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019d just done a creepy gangsters-haunted-by-ghosts creator-owned book called Old Haunts\u00a0<\/em>via AWA Studios with Laurence Campbell. Laurence drew\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0for Mike Mignola and Dark Horse for a number of years, and had been talking to Mike and the guys about doing a Gall Dennar barbarian story. He asked if I\u2019d be interested in coming on to write the book, and I think the Hellboy team liked\u00a0Old Haunts<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat made you want to be a part of the Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0<\/em>miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWorking with Laurence is always a treat. He\u2019s brilliant, and one of my best friends. Working with Mike Mignola in the Hellboy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0world? Who wouldn\u2019t want to do that? I\u2019ve enjoyed those comics for the past couple of decades. It\u2019s a treat to be involved in that universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207448\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_1-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_1\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nHow would you describe the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe sword is an important weapon in the end times of the Hellboy\/B.P.R.D. story. It\u2019s a mythical blade much like Excalibur. Our series spans thousands of years and shows you four very different heroes who held the sword at various points before passing it on, allowing us to tell very Hellboy<\/em>-world tales in a Robert E. Howard-like barbarian landscape. Additionally we'll see stories set in World War I, World War II and finally the electric blues scene of Chicago in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series takes place in the world of\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>;\u00a0is the series new reader-friendly?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: We hope so. We\u2019ve certainly tried to make that the case. We had no interest in a big exposition-fest or historical tract. If you know the major points on the\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>\u00a0map, you\u2019ll get a kick out of the references. But really we have four heroes here, three of whom are brand new, and we want to send them on a journey and care about what happens to them. In introducing three new players who don\u2019t know the key facts of this world, readers are really in the same position as them, fighting against an evil they don\u2019t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207449\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_2-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_2\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nWhat is it like writing with Mike Mignola?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA treat, as I said. I\u2019ve been a fan for years. It\u2019s intimidating too, because Mike\u2019s one of the best writers we\u2019ve had in comics, and the level of people he collaborates with is extraordinarily high. But he was very welcoming and a great sounding board for Laurence and me. Mike had a plot in mind for Gall Dennar in issue #1, which we built out from. Then it was a case of a few Zoom calls discussing the world, and Mike leading us to a few places we should probably go. It was a really enjoyable experience.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe rest of the team for\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0consists of Laurence Campbell, Quinton Winter, Clem Robins and Dave Stewart. Were they already a part of the team when you joined the series?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nLaurence was onboard before me, yes. And then I think Laurence suggested colorist Quinton Winter, who lives near him. They know each other. Quinton coloured Unfollow<\/em>, a book of mine from Vertigo a few years ago, which Clem Robins also lettered. Small world. Dave Stewart had coloured Laurence's work on his B.P.R.D.<\/em> run, so he colored our covers.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhen you saw the art from Laurence Campbell and Quinton Winter, what did you think?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: I\u2019m very aware of what Laurence can do, having worked with him so often. He\u2019s a master of mood on the page, a brilliant storyteller. We wanted issue #1 to be an epic Terrence Malick-like quest across this incredible landscape from thousands of years ago, with evil priests, woolly mammoths, immense mountain ranges, and the odd pterodactyl. Laurence and Quinton have brought all that to such vivid life here.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207450\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_3-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_3\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nDo you have a favourite scene from the first issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: Gall Dennar, having been alone on his quest for years and sitting by a fire in the mountains, tripping on some barbarian concoction, calls out to his love from thousands of years in the future and a giant wolf spirit comes to talk to him. Laurence and Quinton did a phenomenal job there. It really feels magical.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell us about the second issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWe move the action through the Victorian London of Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder<\/em>\u00a0to the first ever zeppelin attacks on London, and then to Belgium in the First World War. A German agent called Graf Ling de Gotha is given a mission to find a cult that is undertaking strange ceremonies nearby, trying to summon something unnatural into the world\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207453\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_4-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_4\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can follow my work on Twitter @Robwilliams71 on Instagram on @Robwilliams1971 and on my website<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0Thanks!<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say thank you to Rob for his time and wish him and the team the best of luck with their series.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Rob Williams","post_excerpt":"\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-rob-williams","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:09:48","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:09:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207445","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207361,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_content":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Paula Wiseman chatted with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh about some of his upcoming movie and TV projects, and also about some of his amazing past work, including roles in 'Scorpion', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and 'Transformers - Age of Extinction<\/span>'.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Paula-Wiseman-chats-with-LA-based-Irish-actor--Glenn-Keogh-e1c0li4\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nIrish American actor\u00a0Glenn Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0appears on television twice the same week emerging December 3rd on the CBS action series\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the HBO hit comedy\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on December 5th. Keogh follows that up by heading to the big screen in the Marvel franchise film,\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em><\/strong>, releasing in theaters on December 17th.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the upcoming \u201cA Fire in the Ashes\u201d episode of\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em>, Keogh steps into the action as Parkes, when Magnum (Jay Hernandez) starts following Higgins (Perdita Weeks), who has been secretly assigned to infiltrate a group threatening to take down MI-6.<\/span><\/p>\r\nSwitching gears and going for laughs, Keogh enters into the acclaimed Larry David comedy series,\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em>, during the episode \u201cIrma Kostroski.\u201d The semi-improvised storyline is being kept under wraps, but revolves around Larry\u2019s latest predicament at work.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAudiences can also catch Keogh in theaters everywhere as part of the latest adventure facing Marvel\u2019s web-spinning superhero in\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em>. Directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man, whose identity now revealed, forces Peter into asking Doctor Strange for help.<\/span><\/p>\r\nKeogh is thrilled to have not one, not two, but three roles hitting screens in December, adding \u201cI was truly blessed to get to work my acting chops this year across these roles, in Honolulu, Atlanta and Los Angeles. All very different characters and a ton of fun to get to play in the Marvel, Curb and Magnum worlds! Excited to see them play out on screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFans will recall Keogh from his first Marvel adventure as the mischievous alien \u2018TROK\u2019 from\u00a0<\/em>Season 6 of ABC\u2019s beloved series,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. He also gained attention for starring alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Atkins in the sci-fi indie feature film,\u00a0Encounter,\u00a0<\/em>and for appearing in Michael Bay\u2019s blockbuster action film,\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Keogh proved a standout as King Fergus on ABC\u2019s fairytale fantasy drama,\u00a0Once Upon a\u00a0<\/em>Time, and recurring as Sean O\u2019Brien, father of Walter (Elyes Gabel), on the CBS drama,\u00a0Scorpion<\/em>. Keogh has worked all over the world in film and television projects including prominent roles in\u00a0Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan, The O.A., Criminal Minds, NCIS, Castle, Undercovers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0New Girl.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Paula Wiseman chats with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh","post_excerpt":"LA based Irish actor","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"paula-wiseman-chats-with-la-based-irish-actor-glenn-keogh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:31:21","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:31:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207361","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207274,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_content":"With the release of his first novel,\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em> we are delighted to be joined by the multi-talented Dave Thomas. Dave is not only an actor but a comedian, writer, producer and director. We got a chance to sit down and chat with Dave bout his novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nSome of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can find out who I am by looking at my website<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davethomas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0davethomas.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0But here is a short rundown of some of the things I have done, pulled from my biography:<\/span><\/p>\nThough new to writing books, I have done every type of television in every capacity, from sketch comedy and sitcoms to reality and game shows, animation and one hour drama. I started his career in comedy, as a writer\/performer for the Emmy Award-winning NBC sketch comedy show\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. I co-wrote the movie\u00a0Spies Like Us<\/em>\u00a0with Dan Aykroyd and directed and co-wrote the MGM cult classic\u00a0Strange Brew\u00a0<\/em>with Rick Moranis. I wrote and performed on a Grammy Award nominated album for Polygram with Rick. I directed\u00a0The Experts<\/em>\u00a0starring John Travolta for Paramount. I was executive produced and starred in my own comedy series for CBS,\u00a0the Dave Thomas Show<\/em>. From 1993 to 1998, i wrote for and co-starred in 115 episodes of the ABC sitcom\u00a0Grace Under Fire<\/em>. While working on that show I created a game show called\u00a0Family Challenge<\/em>\u00a0and produced 144 episodes for the Family Channel. My company Maple Palm Productions produced movies for Fox and HBO \u2013 most notably\u00a0Ambushed\u00a0<\/em>(Courtney Vance, Virginia Masden, William Forsythe and Robert Patrick). I co-created and executive produced\u00a0America\u2019s Funniest People\u00a0<\/em>(ABC) with Vin DiBona and I was executive producer of\u00a0the<\/em> Dennis Miller Show<\/em>\u00a0for Tribune. In 2001, I founded an animation company called Animax Entertainment and produced animation series for ABC (Slacker Cats<\/em>), ESPN (Off Mikes<\/em>), and MTV (Popzilla and Big Box<\/em>) and Global television in Canada (Bob and Doug<\/em>). I won my second Emmy Award for Animax\u2019s ESPN show\u00a0\u201cOff Mikes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in 2006. Lured into drama writing by his pal, Hart Hanson, Dave wrote a spec script for\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Fox) that was produced in 2008 and then Hart asked Dave to join the writing staff of\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0for more than 50 episodes as a Consulting Producer. After three years with Bones, I was asked to join the writing staff of NBC\u2019s the\u00a0Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0also as a consulting producer. This year, along with the cast of SCTV, I produced a reunion show called\u00a0An Afternoon with SCTV<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix directed by Martin Scorcese. Currently, I am writing his second book entitled\u00a0The Perfect Life<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDid you always want to write a novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNo, writing a novel is something I didn\u2019t really think about until a couple of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat are some of the novels that you enjoy?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMy two favorite novels are\u00a0What Dreams May Come<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Matheson and\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Josh Bazell. I am now and always have been a fan of all of Max Allan Collin\u2019s work \u2013 especially his historical fictions\u00a0The Titanic Murders<\/em>,\u00a0Flying Blind<\/em>and\u00a0Ask Not<\/em>.\u00a0And my pal, Hart Hanson write a book called\u00a0The Driver<\/em>\u00a0which I really enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy Leighton started out as a pitch for a television series. I became frustrated with the lack of response and started writing it as a novel. After writing three chapters, I put it aside and continued with more TV work. Max Allan Collins read those three chapters and he encouraged me to write more. Max is a very generous person and he offered to help me get a book agent and a publisher. And then he said, \u201cBut what I\u2019d rather do is write it with you.\u201d Well, Max is a renowned mystery writer who has written more than 100 novels. I had written none. So I would have to be an idiot not to take him up on an offer like that. The truth is, even though I started the book without him, I probably would never have finished it if Max hadn\u2019t written it with me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nYou co-wrote\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton\u00a0with Max Allan Collins; how did that come about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA mutual friend, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), introduced Max and I at San Diego\u2019s Comicon. Max and I met in person there very briefly but hit it off and continued the friendship by phone even though Max is in Muscatine Iowa, and I am in Los Angeles. Of particular note: this is a COVID collaboration \u2013 Max and I were never in the same room for one second of the writing. It was all done on phone and Zoom calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBefore Max got involved, had you started to write the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYes, I wrote three chapters on my own, but only the Many Worlds sci-fi part. The mystery thread was not part of my original conception. That\u2019s something Max and I came up with after we started working on the book together.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow would you describe\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very strange little sci fi mystery thriller. It\u2019s a mix of police detective work and the theoretical ideas in quantum physics. The book tells the story of a small-time thief (Jimmy Leighton) who flees South Boston to escape from a Vietnamese gangster. Hiding out in Cambridge, Jimmy needs money and breaks into the house of a M.I.T. Physicist who happens to be running a quantum experiment in his basement based on the work of Princeton Physicist Hugh Everett III. Nosey little Jimmy connects the wrong outlet to the wrong cable from a stack of quantum batteries and finds himself transported to another version of his life 1000 miles away in Chicago. And that is only the beginning of his adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell about Jimmy Leighton?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy is not the sharpest tool in the shed when the book starts out but the experience of living several versions of his life is kind of a quantum school. Jimmy finally figures it out and finds a way to get what he needs to be happy. He was an orphan from South Boston who bounced around in foster homes the social service\u2019s system. Abused by at least two foster fathers, Jimmy ran away and hit the streets, becoming a homeless panhandler at the age of 12. But he had incredible street smarts and managed to survive, dodging the law and other homeless folk who preyed upon kids like him. He started robbing houses when he was 14 and became a seriously successful second story man, respected by many in the Boston crime community.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did NeoText end up publishing the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMax had the connection to NeoText because he had written a book with them before he met me. And Max made the deal for the book. I knew it would be a difficult sell because it\u2019s a cross-genre book. It\u2019s a sci-fi and it\u2019s a detective mystery thriller. A lot of publishers won\u2019t take a chance on cross-genre. They worry that their readers won\u2019t understand it. Or that they may become frightened reading the book because it does not stay within the preconceived expectations they had for it. But John Schoenfelder at Neo Text is a very open-minded man. And he\u2019s very supportive of his artists \u2013 that\u2019s what he calls us. No one in my 40 years working for television and film ever called me an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat was it like co-writing with Max Allan Collins?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI was surprised by how much Max and I have in common. I was familiar with some of his work, but the fact is, he has written so many books that, to be aware of them all, would\u2019ve been impossible. For example, I\u2019m a historical student of the Titanic disaster but Max actually wrote a book about a fictitious murder that takes place on that fateful voyage. To write a novel where you play out the action onboard that ship necessitated doing an incredible amount of research. So, Max and I were able to swap stories on that. Same thing with the Kennedy Assassination. And a lot of other things. We became fast friends during our collaboration writing this book. And there\u2019s no better way to get to know someone than working together on a book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFay Dalton created a lovely illustration for\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton;\u00a0was that her composition, or did you suggest ideas for it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s definitely her composition. We gave her some suggestions, but it was Faye who came up with the actual cover for the book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping ComicBuzz readers like this book. I think it definitely conforms to the comic book style of writing. Both Max and I think very visually, and I believe we painted word pictures for our readers that they will enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say a big thank you to Dave for taking the time to chat with us and we wish him and Max the best of luck with their novel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Dave Thomas","post_excerpt":"The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-dave-thomas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:32:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:32:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207274","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":16},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_22"};</script></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4e19fa1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-epic_archive_pagination_elementor" data-id="4e19fa1" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="epic_archive_pagination_elementor.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="jeg_navigation jeg_pagination jeg_pagenav_1 jeg_aligncenter no_pageinfo"> Page 16 of 32 <a class="page_nav prev" data-id="15" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/">Previous</a> <a class='page_number' data-id='1' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/'>1</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='15' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/'>15</a> 16 <a class='page_number' data-id='17' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/'>17</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='32' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/32/'>32</a> <a class="page_nav next" data-id="17" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/">Next</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></section> \n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HTG9a78M6Gk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nHow would you describe Follow the Dead?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a dark comedy about a man in his thirties, Robbie, who can\u2019t manage to find the love he\u2019s looking for in a Tinder-centric society, and only begins to realize what he\u2019s missing when his estranged wife comes back into his life. Unluckily for him, this reunion just so happens to take place right as the town is in a frenzy, divided over the mysterious news that Dublin is experiencing a blackout, and the prevailing theory is that zombies are the cause. To add insult to injury, Robbie has to take care of his wannabe-celebrity sister Liv, who\u2019s trying to use the events to boost her social media presence, and their stoner cousins Jay and Chi, who can\u2019t agree on a single thing. The result: comedy and mayhem.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the cast of Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI had the great privilege of working with some incredible actors for this film, who were honoured with a Best Ensemble Cast nomination from the Seattle Film Festival last year. The dramatic performances from Luke Corcoran, Marybeth Herron, and Cristina Ryan are so moving, and they really carry the weight of the themes surrounding sacrifice and responsibility within the film so incredibly well. I\u2019m so proud of what they brought to the story through their rawness and vulnerability. And then there\u2019s Luke Collins and Tadhg Devery as the stoner cousins who are just so insanely hilarious, in very distinct ways; Luke with his unique physicality, and Tadhg with his incredible turn-of-phrase. We\u2019ve been honoured with numerous Comedy Feature awards internationally, with Tadhg receiving a Best Supporting Actor award from the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival too. I\u2019m really indebted to them for being so impressive in that way, and I really love that the Irish sense of humour (not to mention the accents) has really translated to foreign audiences. Truth be told, we actually filmed Follow the Dead twice. The first time, without a budget, we shot about 60% of the script, but then came back to do it all again with a bigger crew and a pittance of funding later in the year. I did that because I was blown away by the performances from the cast, which really made me believe in them and in what we were creating. So yeah\u2026 That\u2019s how much faith and love I have for these incredible artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207581\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/adamwilliamcahill-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"adamwilliamcahill\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\nYou are the writer, producer and director on Follow the Dead<\/em>. That sounds like a huge amount of work on your shoulders; how did you manage all of these hats?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWell the whole process took so much longer than it should have because of the fact that I was juggling everything. We shot Follow the Dead in August 2017, and it wasn\u2019t ready for festivals until 2020. So it was a case of taking things step by step. This was also my first feature, so I was totally unaware of how mammoth the undertaking was going to be. But that helped in a way, because I wasn\u2019t concerned with how high the mountain was; I had no idea. So I just took each step as it came, learned on the fly, and thankfully it all worked out in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the writing process; what was it like for you?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWriting is one of the most arduous stages of development for me. I\u2019m a perfectionist, and I\u2019m a plotter; I need to know exactly where the story is going and all of the checkpoints along the way before I can get started. So before the script stage I have pages and pages and pages of notes, outlines, charts, and all sorts, and only when I can play the whole movie out visually in my head can I then sit down and write it. The only really improvisational aspect of the scripts I write is the dialogue, which I come up with as I\u2019m typing. Except for the jokes; 90% of them are planned ahead of time too. But I have to say that Follow the Dead<\/em> was the easiest script I\u2019ve written so far, purely because I had done so much meditating about it while we were planning the short film. So I have to thank Luke Corcoran for the inspiration for this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207582\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead1.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nHow did you go about finding the cast?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt was really organic. Luke was always going to play Robbie because I never diverged from that plan since the short film stage. I had worked with Marybeth Herron and Tadhg Devery on my final year student film Inertia<\/em>, and I knew they\u2019d be ideal for Liv and Chi respectively. From there, Tadhg introduced me to Cristina Ryan and Aidan O\u2019Sullivan when we were considering who would play the Garda\u00ed in the film, with the character of Kate also being Robbie\u2019s love interest, and they fit those characters like a glove. And then Luke recommended Luke Collins to play Jay, and Ian Anthony Lawless to play Zippy. They were both primarily theater actors at the time, but did an amazing job bringing that developed stage presence to the big screen. So as you can tell, it was very much a casting process based on relationships, which I think gave us that tight-knit familial connection on set that allowed us to work so well as a team to do what almost none of us had done before.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWas it a difficult task to find the technical crew that you needed to shoot the movie?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt wasn\u2019t difficult on the production side of things. I had seen the cinematography showreel of Stephen C. Walsh on social media somewhere, and I was incredibly impressed with his work. So I reached out to him with the pitch for the feature and he got on board very quickly after that. And we\u2019re tremendously blessed that he did. He was a one man film crew; doing all the camera work, the lighting, the rigging\u2026 He was a beast, and I really felt like I had a lieutenant with me going into battle in what was unfamiliar territory for me, but not at all for him. That was comforting to say the least. Post production was a lot more difficult a stage. I edited the film myself, so that was no problem. But getting a good sound designer and music composer was an ordeal. I was pulling my hair out looking for a sound designer who could take on the challenge; There were a lot of outdoor scenes where the recorded sound was inaudible, and we also needed a lot of effects sounds for the zombies and for the action scenes. After months of searching, I met a fellow filmmaker one evening who recommended Robin Sherry Wood to me, and after that it was smooth sailing. He did an incredible job, even down to creating bottom up sound design for entire scenes, such as the very first scene of the film where Robbie is on a date in the car. None of the audio in that scene was recorded on the day. The car engine, the dialogue, the sounds of motion, absolutely everything was put in in post by Robin, and no one seems to notice a thing when watching it. That\u2019s how good he is. And then with the music\u2026 All I\u2019ll say is\u2026 Just because you can create beautiful music doesn\u2019t mean you know how to score a movie. I went through ten music composers before I found someone who understood how to craft the music around the emotional beats within the scene. That someone is Steven McKenna of DRVN Pictures, and his work speaks for itself. I said I wanted three distinct motifs, and he nailed every one of them. Every now and then I\u2019ll listen to the love theme just for the pleasure of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207583\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead2.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"424\"><\/p>\nWhat was the biggest challenge you overcame when creating Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAside from the post production issues I mentioned, I think it was just the fear of going into the unknown. Especially for the massive cast sequences. Anyone can shoot a scene of two people talking. But shooting an action sequence in the middle of a forest where a horde of zombies are chasing your protagonists and a battle erupts\u2026 That\u2019s not an ordinary day on set. I had absolutely no idea if we\u2019d pull it off. But I knew that if we did, we\u2019d have done something amazing, we\u2019ll have grown as artists from the experience, and I trusted the people I had around me to be able to help me to get the job done. The rest is history. And because of this experience, I\u2019ll never make a movie where I don\u2019t attempt to do something that feels slightly beyond my ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nAre you happy with how the movie turned out?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m blown away by it. Watching the film and seeing what we accomplished, (which I believe is a cinema-quality, funny, emotional, Irish genre film,) never fails to make me feel emotional. And add to that the successful and ongoing festival run, in which we\u2019ve currently amassed 14 wins and 4 nominations, it\u2019s actually insane to think of where we started from and where we\u2019re at with it today. It\u2019s unbelievable.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207584\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead3.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead3\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nWhat has the feedback been like for Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe frustration for us at the moment is that, because of Covid, all of the festivals have been virtual so far, having to move to a digital format until things get back to normal. So although we\u2019ve won awards at practically every festival we\u2019ve screened at, we\u2019ve never seen an audience's reaction in the theater. So that\u2019s been tough, and we\u2019ve no idea how to gauge each individual aspect of the film as a result. We just know it\u2019s been extremely positive feedback on the whole. But we\u2019re looking forward to some live festivals coming up in the next few months, so\u2026 That\u2019s going to be a whole new experience for us. Excited isn\u2019t the word.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould we see more Follow the Dead<\/em> movies in the future?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe sequel is already written. And I sat down with the cast members in November for a script reading and we were falling around laughing. So yeah, we\u2019re hoping to get that one off the ground as soon as we can. And in my head the story is a trilogy. So let\u2019s see how far we get with it. But I love these characters so much; as much as I love working with the actors, so\u2026 I\u2019m totally committed to that journey if we can make it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nIf any of our readers wanted to get their eyes on Follow the Dead<\/em>, how can they do that?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe best thing to do is to follow us on our social media pages. We\u2019re @followthedeadmovie on Facebook and Instagram. (You can also check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">followthedead.com<\/a> if you want a really<\/em> deep dive into the making of the film including a Behind the Scenes documentary.) We\u2019re always posting about what\u2019s happening with the film regarding festivals, news, merchandise, stuff like that. But if you can\u2019t make it to a festival, there\u2019ll be news very soon about how you can catch the film online, exclusively on a brand new and exciting streaming service which will be launching very soon. So keep your eyes peeled for that one.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wz3JRdmLBsk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIf you\u2019ve made it this far into the interview, I sincerely from the bottom of my heart thank you for your interest. I really hope Follow the Dead tickles your fancy if you haven\u2019t yet seen it, and I hope you can check it out very soon. If you want to know what else I\u2019m doing outside of the realm of zombie flicks, my company is Wild Stag Productions. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using @wildstagmedia, or check out the official website at <a href=\"http:\/\/wildstagpoductions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildstagpoductions.com<\/a>. We\u2019re a media company that specializes in making Irish genre films. I basically want to make Irish versions of all my favourite genres, including a Western which I\u2019m writing at the moment. So yeah\u2026 thank you all for your time, and I hope you join us for the next part of our journey!<\/span><\/p>\nA big thank you to Adam for sitting and chatting with us; we wish him the best of luck with his film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.followthedead.com<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a><\/p>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Adam William Cahill","post_excerpt":"Follow the Dead","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-adam-william-cahill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:51:19","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:51:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207575","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207564,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the producers and directors of\u00a0<\/span>Young Plato, a\u00a0<\/span><\/em>documentary set in post-conflict Belfast.<\/span><\/p>\nAn observational documentary set in post-conflict Belfast\u2019s Ardoyne, where a marginalized, working-class community has for generations been plagued by poverty, drugs and guns. This film charts the dream of Headmaster Kevin McArevey and his dedicated visionary team, illustrating how critical thinking and pastoral care can empower and encourage children to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of their own community. We see how philosophy can encourage them to question the mythologies of war and of violence, and challenge the narratives of their community.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207571\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDavid Rane - Producer<\/span><\/p>\nNeasa Ni Chianain - Director<\/span><\/p>\nDeclan McGrath -<\/span> Co-Producer\/Director\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nKevin McArevey - Principal in the school<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207572\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato2-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato2\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207569\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato4.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/p>","post_title":"Young Plato Interviews","post_excerpt":"David Rane","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"young-plato-interviews","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:53:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:53:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207514,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by the writer and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. The very talented Mr Cadwell has worked on numerous comics. Some of the comics he has worked on include: Nelson<\/em>, Lovecraft Anthology 2<\/em>, Sold State Tank Girl<\/em>, Samuari Jack<\/em>, Dangeritis<\/em>, Helena Crash<\/em> and Mr. Higgins Comes Home<\/em>.<\/span>\n\nHi Warwick, happy new year to you. It's a pleasure to have you here with us. <\/span><\/strong>As some of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nHello, and Happy New Year! <\/em>Falconspeare is my third book with Dark Horse comics and Mike Mignola, but before then came<\/em> Samurai Jack, Helena Crash, The Marionette Unit, Dangeritis, and Tank Girl. But aside from comics I have worked for publishers and in the animation industry. I\u2019m just a very enthusiastic drawer\/drawist.<\/em><\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the origins of Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nFalconspeare is the third book in a sort of series (at this stage they can still be read in any order) following the adventures of a group of vampire hunters of old. In this book we discover they shared their formative years with a fourth member,<\/em> James Falconspeare, and here we discover what has happened to him since the group last met many years before.<\/em><\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207518\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp1-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp1\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nHow would you describe the Falconspeare<\/em> graphic novel?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nIt\u2019s a vampire adventure of sorts. These books revel in the classic horror worlds <\/span>of Universal Studios and Hammer Horror, but have their own flavor too. They\u2019re <\/span><\/em>also inspired by Mike Mignola, who wrote the first book,<\/em> Mr. Higgins Comes Home. I <\/em><\/span>have tried to maintain a level of humor in there, too. But this is the darkest book of the three, I think.<\/span><\/em>\n\nFor our readers who are not familiar with Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan. What can you tell us about these characters?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThese are classic vampire adventurers, like Van Helsing or Professor Abronsius. <\/span>Professor Meinhardt is an academic expert in the supernatural, and Mr. Knox is a <\/span>compassionate and careful force for good. Ms. Mary Van Sloan is a spirited fighting <\/span>force. They\u2019re all enthusiastic and brave, but also pretty lucky in a world where the <\/span>forces of evil command a strong upper hand. And in this book we find that James <\/span>Falconspeare is the honorable, law-abiding champion of the group.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207519\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp2-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp2\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhen you were creating the graphic novel, did you write a full script?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI did, eventually. I\u2019m an artist mainly, and very interested in narrative. My process for the last two books was to firstly work out the story in sketches and thumbnails to <\/span>determine what I wanted to do. Then I turned that into a script, which I then redrew as roughs. The two sets of roughs either side of the script aren\u2019t easy to compare., <\/span>however, as the first is spread over many sketchbooks in many sizes and qualities over the course of a few years.<\/span><\/em>\n\nYou are the writer and artist on Falconspeare<\/em>; what do you enjoy being more a writer or an artist?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAn artist I think, but that\u2019s mainly because I\u2019m more comfortable with that aspect. I love getting to grips with writing, and I really enjoy working with word and images to create stories. I like working with writers very much, but I\u2019m really enjoying being in charge of both the script and art to model the stories.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207520\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp3-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nDo you have a favourite character from Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAh! That\u2019s tricky, because I like them all. The main three we\u2019ve already met in the other books get a chance to develop or reaffirm their characters, which is nice. But getting to introduce new characters is great, and there\u2019s plenty in this. There\u2019s a brief appearance from Meinhardt, Knox, and Sloan\u2019s very grumpy butler (Mr. Tuphold). He\u2019s only in a<\/span>couple of panels, but he makes me laugh, and I think he could be a great character in future. Such an angry old character.<\/span><\/em>\n\nCould we see more of Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan in the future?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI certainly hope so, though I\u2019ve got away with a lot so far. Drawing these books is <\/span>amazing fun, and every page throws up more ideas for more stories to tell. So, I hope we get to follow their crazy adventures further.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207521\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp4-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp4\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhat are you currently reading?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nMy reading goes all over the place, often a long way behind. And in that spirit, \u201cAcheron\u201d by Mike Mignola at Dark Horse was ace! Steeple by John Allison, too. I love that series. Kyle Starks and Chris Schweitzer\u2019s<\/em> 6 Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton (Image) was also awesome! Other than that, I\u2019m mainly rereading<\/em> The Tomb Of Dracula or<\/em> Dracula Lives.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nTry out Falconspeare? Follow me for art if they\u2019re keen on Instagram @wocco or <\/em><\/span>on Twitter @warwickjc.<\/em> But mainly I\u2019d encourage ComicBuzz readers to get drawing\/ reading or making. Anything. It\u2019s awesome fun.<\/em><\/span>\n\nA big thank you to Warwick Johnson-Cadwell for taking the time to chat with us. We would like to wish him and his team the best of luck with Falconspeare.<\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Warwick Johnson-Cadwell","post_excerpt":"Falconspeare","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-warwick-johnson-cadwell","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:04:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:04:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207514","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207445,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_content":"With the second issue of the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series out next week from Dark Horse Comics, we are so delighted to be joined by the co-writer of the comic, Rob Williams. Rob Williams has written numerous titles. Some of the titles he has worked on include\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>, Suicide Squad<\/em>,\u00a0Trinity<\/em>,\u00a0Action Comics<\/em>,\u00a0Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>,\u00a0Judge Dredd<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Rob, happy new year to you; it's great to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\nWe have been fans of your work ever since we read\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nThanks! Good memories!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did you get involved with the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019d just done a creepy gangsters-haunted-by-ghosts creator-owned book called Old Haunts\u00a0<\/em>via AWA Studios with Laurence Campbell. Laurence drew\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0for Mike Mignola and Dark Horse for a number of years, and had been talking to Mike and the guys about doing a Gall Dennar barbarian story. He asked if I\u2019d be interested in coming on to write the book, and I think the Hellboy team liked\u00a0Old Haunts<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat made you want to be a part of the Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0<\/em>miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWorking with Laurence is always a treat. He\u2019s brilliant, and one of my best friends. Working with Mike Mignola in the Hellboy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0world? Who wouldn\u2019t want to do that? I\u2019ve enjoyed those comics for the past couple of decades. It\u2019s a treat to be involved in that universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207448\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_1-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_1\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nHow would you describe the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe sword is an important weapon in the end times of the Hellboy\/B.P.R.D. story. It\u2019s a mythical blade much like Excalibur. Our series spans thousands of years and shows you four very different heroes who held the sword at various points before passing it on, allowing us to tell very Hellboy<\/em>-world tales in a Robert E. Howard-like barbarian landscape. Additionally we'll see stories set in World War I, World War II and finally the electric blues scene of Chicago in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series takes place in the world of\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>;\u00a0is the series new reader-friendly?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: We hope so. We\u2019ve certainly tried to make that the case. We had no interest in a big exposition-fest or historical tract. If you know the major points on the\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>\u00a0map, you\u2019ll get a kick out of the references. But really we have four heroes here, three of whom are brand new, and we want to send them on a journey and care about what happens to them. In introducing three new players who don\u2019t know the key facts of this world, readers are really in the same position as them, fighting against an evil they don\u2019t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207449\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_2-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_2\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nWhat is it like writing with Mike Mignola?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA treat, as I said. I\u2019ve been a fan for years. It\u2019s intimidating too, because Mike\u2019s one of the best writers we\u2019ve had in comics, and the level of people he collaborates with is extraordinarily high. But he was very welcoming and a great sounding board for Laurence and me. Mike had a plot in mind for Gall Dennar in issue #1, which we built out from. Then it was a case of a few Zoom calls discussing the world, and Mike leading us to a few places we should probably go. It was a really enjoyable experience.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe rest of the team for\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0consists of Laurence Campbell, Quinton Winter, Clem Robins and Dave Stewart. Were they already a part of the team when you joined the series?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nLaurence was onboard before me, yes. And then I think Laurence suggested colorist Quinton Winter, who lives near him. They know each other. Quinton coloured Unfollow<\/em>, a book of mine from Vertigo a few years ago, which Clem Robins also lettered. Small world. Dave Stewart had coloured Laurence's work on his B.P.R.D.<\/em> run, so he colored our covers.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhen you saw the art from Laurence Campbell and Quinton Winter, what did you think?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: I\u2019m very aware of what Laurence can do, having worked with him so often. He\u2019s a master of mood on the page, a brilliant storyteller. We wanted issue #1 to be an epic Terrence Malick-like quest across this incredible landscape from thousands of years ago, with evil priests, woolly mammoths, immense mountain ranges, and the odd pterodactyl. Laurence and Quinton have brought all that to such vivid life here.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207450\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_3-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_3\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nDo you have a favourite scene from the first issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: Gall Dennar, having been alone on his quest for years and sitting by a fire in the mountains, tripping on some barbarian concoction, calls out to his love from thousands of years in the future and a giant wolf spirit comes to talk to him. Laurence and Quinton did a phenomenal job there. It really feels magical.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell us about the second issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWe move the action through the Victorian London of Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder<\/em>\u00a0to the first ever zeppelin attacks on London, and then to Belgium in the First World War. A German agent called Graf Ling de Gotha is given a mission to find a cult that is undertaking strange ceremonies nearby, trying to summon something unnatural into the world\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207453\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_4-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_4\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can follow my work on Twitter @Robwilliams71 on Instagram on @Robwilliams1971 and on my website<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0Thanks!<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say thank you to Rob for his time and wish him and the team the best of luck with their series.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Rob Williams","post_excerpt":"\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-rob-williams","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:09:48","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:09:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207445","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207361,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_content":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Paula Wiseman chatted with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh about some of his upcoming movie and TV projects, and also about some of his amazing past work, including roles in 'Scorpion', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and 'Transformers - Age of Extinction<\/span>'.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Paula-Wiseman-chats-with-LA-based-Irish-actor--Glenn-Keogh-e1c0li4\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nIrish American actor\u00a0Glenn Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0appears on television twice the same week emerging December 3rd on the CBS action series\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the HBO hit comedy\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on December 5th. Keogh follows that up by heading to the big screen in the Marvel franchise film,\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em><\/strong>, releasing in theaters on December 17th.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the upcoming \u201cA Fire in the Ashes\u201d episode of\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em>, Keogh steps into the action as Parkes, when Magnum (Jay Hernandez) starts following Higgins (Perdita Weeks), who has been secretly assigned to infiltrate a group threatening to take down MI-6.<\/span><\/p>\r\nSwitching gears and going for laughs, Keogh enters into the acclaimed Larry David comedy series,\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em>, during the episode \u201cIrma Kostroski.\u201d The semi-improvised storyline is being kept under wraps, but revolves around Larry\u2019s latest predicament at work.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAudiences can also catch Keogh in theaters everywhere as part of the latest adventure facing Marvel\u2019s web-spinning superhero in\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em>. Directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man, whose identity now revealed, forces Peter into asking Doctor Strange for help.<\/span><\/p>\r\nKeogh is thrilled to have not one, not two, but three roles hitting screens in December, adding \u201cI was truly blessed to get to work my acting chops this year across these roles, in Honolulu, Atlanta and Los Angeles. All very different characters and a ton of fun to get to play in the Marvel, Curb and Magnum worlds! Excited to see them play out on screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFans will recall Keogh from his first Marvel adventure as the mischievous alien \u2018TROK\u2019 from\u00a0<\/em>Season 6 of ABC\u2019s beloved series,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. He also gained attention for starring alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Atkins in the sci-fi indie feature film,\u00a0Encounter,\u00a0<\/em>and for appearing in Michael Bay\u2019s blockbuster action film,\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Keogh proved a standout as King Fergus on ABC\u2019s fairytale fantasy drama,\u00a0Once Upon a\u00a0<\/em>Time, and recurring as Sean O\u2019Brien, father of Walter (Elyes Gabel), on the CBS drama,\u00a0Scorpion<\/em>. Keogh has worked all over the world in film and television projects including prominent roles in\u00a0Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan, The O.A., Criminal Minds, NCIS, Castle, Undercovers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0New Girl.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Paula Wiseman chats with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh","post_excerpt":"LA based Irish actor","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"paula-wiseman-chats-with-la-based-irish-actor-glenn-keogh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:31:21","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:31:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207361","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207274,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_content":"With the release of his first novel,\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em> we are delighted to be joined by the multi-talented Dave Thomas. Dave is not only an actor but a comedian, writer, producer and director. We got a chance to sit down and chat with Dave bout his novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nSome of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can find out who I am by looking at my website<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davethomas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0davethomas.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0But here is a short rundown of some of the things I have done, pulled from my biography:<\/span><\/p>\nThough new to writing books, I have done every type of television in every capacity, from sketch comedy and sitcoms to reality and game shows, animation and one hour drama. I started his career in comedy, as a writer\/performer for the Emmy Award-winning NBC sketch comedy show\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. I co-wrote the movie\u00a0Spies Like Us<\/em>\u00a0with Dan Aykroyd and directed and co-wrote the MGM cult classic\u00a0Strange Brew\u00a0<\/em>with Rick Moranis. I wrote and performed on a Grammy Award nominated album for Polygram with Rick. I directed\u00a0The Experts<\/em>\u00a0starring John Travolta for Paramount. I was executive produced and starred in my own comedy series for CBS,\u00a0the Dave Thomas Show<\/em>. From 1993 to 1998, i wrote for and co-starred in 115 episodes of the ABC sitcom\u00a0Grace Under Fire<\/em>. While working on that show I created a game show called\u00a0Family Challenge<\/em>\u00a0and produced 144 episodes for the Family Channel. My company Maple Palm Productions produced movies for Fox and HBO \u2013 most notably\u00a0Ambushed\u00a0<\/em>(Courtney Vance, Virginia Masden, William Forsythe and Robert Patrick). I co-created and executive produced\u00a0America\u2019s Funniest People\u00a0<\/em>(ABC) with Vin DiBona and I was executive producer of\u00a0the<\/em> Dennis Miller Show<\/em>\u00a0for Tribune. In 2001, I founded an animation company called Animax Entertainment and produced animation series for ABC (Slacker Cats<\/em>), ESPN (Off Mikes<\/em>), and MTV (Popzilla and Big Box<\/em>) and Global television in Canada (Bob and Doug<\/em>). I won my second Emmy Award for Animax\u2019s ESPN show\u00a0\u201cOff Mikes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in 2006. Lured into drama writing by his pal, Hart Hanson, Dave wrote a spec script for\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Fox) that was produced in 2008 and then Hart asked Dave to join the writing staff of\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0for more than 50 episodes as a Consulting Producer. After three years with Bones, I was asked to join the writing staff of NBC\u2019s the\u00a0Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0also as a consulting producer. This year, along with the cast of SCTV, I produced a reunion show called\u00a0An Afternoon with SCTV<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix directed by Martin Scorcese. Currently, I am writing his second book entitled\u00a0The Perfect Life<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDid you always want to write a novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNo, writing a novel is something I didn\u2019t really think about until a couple of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat are some of the novels that you enjoy?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMy two favorite novels are\u00a0What Dreams May Come<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Matheson and\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Josh Bazell. I am now and always have been a fan of all of Max Allan Collin\u2019s work \u2013 especially his historical fictions\u00a0The Titanic Murders<\/em>,\u00a0Flying Blind<\/em>and\u00a0Ask Not<\/em>.\u00a0And my pal, Hart Hanson write a book called\u00a0The Driver<\/em>\u00a0which I really enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy Leighton started out as a pitch for a television series. I became frustrated with the lack of response and started writing it as a novel. After writing three chapters, I put it aside and continued with more TV work. Max Allan Collins read those three chapters and he encouraged me to write more. Max is a very generous person and he offered to help me get a book agent and a publisher. And then he said, \u201cBut what I\u2019d rather do is write it with you.\u201d Well, Max is a renowned mystery writer who has written more than 100 novels. I had written none. So I would have to be an idiot not to take him up on an offer like that. The truth is, even though I started the book without him, I probably would never have finished it if Max hadn\u2019t written it with me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nYou co-wrote\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton\u00a0with Max Allan Collins; how did that come about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA mutual friend, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), introduced Max and I at San Diego\u2019s Comicon. Max and I met in person there very briefly but hit it off and continued the friendship by phone even though Max is in Muscatine Iowa, and I am in Los Angeles. Of particular note: this is a COVID collaboration \u2013 Max and I were never in the same room for one second of the writing. It was all done on phone and Zoom calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBefore Max got involved, had you started to write the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYes, I wrote three chapters on my own, but only the Many Worlds sci-fi part. The mystery thread was not part of my original conception. That\u2019s something Max and I came up with after we started working on the book together.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow would you describe\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very strange little sci fi mystery thriller. It\u2019s a mix of police detective work and the theoretical ideas in quantum physics. The book tells the story of a small-time thief (Jimmy Leighton) who flees South Boston to escape from a Vietnamese gangster. Hiding out in Cambridge, Jimmy needs money and breaks into the house of a M.I.T. Physicist who happens to be running a quantum experiment in his basement based on the work of Princeton Physicist Hugh Everett III. Nosey little Jimmy connects the wrong outlet to the wrong cable from a stack of quantum batteries and finds himself transported to another version of his life 1000 miles away in Chicago. And that is only the beginning of his adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell about Jimmy Leighton?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy is not the sharpest tool in the shed when the book starts out but the experience of living several versions of his life is kind of a quantum school. Jimmy finally figures it out and finds a way to get what he needs to be happy. He was an orphan from South Boston who bounced around in foster homes the social service\u2019s system. Abused by at least two foster fathers, Jimmy ran away and hit the streets, becoming a homeless panhandler at the age of 12. But he had incredible street smarts and managed to survive, dodging the law and other homeless folk who preyed upon kids like him. He started robbing houses when he was 14 and became a seriously successful second story man, respected by many in the Boston crime community.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did NeoText end up publishing the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMax had the connection to NeoText because he had written a book with them before he met me. And Max made the deal for the book. I knew it would be a difficult sell because it\u2019s a cross-genre book. It\u2019s a sci-fi and it\u2019s a detective mystery thriller. A lot of publishers won\u2019t take a chance on cross-genre. They worry that their readers won\u2019t understand it. Or that they may become frightened reading the book because it does not stay within the preconceived expectations they had for it. But John Schoenfelder at Neo Text is a very open-minded man. And he\u2019s very supportive of his artists \u2013 that\u2019s what he calls us. No one in my 40 years working for television and film ever called me an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat was it like co-writing with Max Allan Collins?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI was surprised by how much Max and I have in common. I was familiar with some of his work, but the fact is, he has written so many books that, to be aware of them all, would\u2019ve been impossible. For example, I\u2019m a historical student of the Titanic disaster but Max actually wrote a book about a fictitious murder that takes place on that fateful voyage. To write a novel where you play out the action onboard that ship necessitated doing an incredible amount of research. So, Max and I were able to swap stories on that. Same thing with the Kennedy Assassination. And a lot of other things. We became fast friends during our collaboration writing this book. And there\u2019s no better way to get to know someone than working together on a book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFay Dalton created a lovely illustration for\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton;\u00a0was that her composition, or did you suggest ideas for it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s definitely her composition. We gave her some suggestions, but it was Faye who came up with the actual cover for the book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping ComicBuzz readers like this book. I think it definitely conforms to the comic book style of writing. Both Max and I think very visually, and I believe we painted word pictures for our readers that they will enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say a big thank you to Dave for taking the time to chat with us and we wish him and Max the best of luck with their novel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Dave Thomas","post_excerpt":"The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-dave-thomas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:32:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:32:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207274","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":16},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_22"};</script></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4e19fa1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-epic_archive_pagination_elementor" data-id="4e19fa1" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="epic_archive_pagination_elementor.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="jeg_navigation jeg_pagination jeg_pagenav_1 jeg_aligncenter no_pageinfo"> Page 16 of 32 <a class="page_nav prev" data-id="15" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/">Previous</a> <a class='page_number' data-id='1' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/'>1</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='15' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/'>15</a> 16 <a class='page_number' data-id='17' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/'>17</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='32' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/32/'>32</a> <a class="page_nav next" data-id="17" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/">Next</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></section> \n<\/p>\n","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of The Feast","post_excerpt":"Lee Haven Jones","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-the-feast","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:44:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:44:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207592","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207575,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_content":"We are joined today by Irish filmmaker Adam William Cahill. Adam sat down with us to talk about his new film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Adam, it is so wonderful to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m an Irish filmmaker from Dublin, and the company director of Wild Stag Productions. I studied film production and earned my bachelor degree from the University of Wolverhampton. Straight out of college I decided to sink or swim as far as diving straight into the industry goes, and that\u2019s how I ended up making my first feature film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you tell us about the origins of <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nInitially it was a short film idea imagined by Luke Corcoran, the actor who would become the lead in the feature film. He wrote a short script about three flatmates in Dublin who come across a zombie in their apartment and comedic mayhem ensues. We were initially going to shoot that script, which was called Craic of the Dead (\u201ccraic\u201d being an Irish colloquialism for fun), but we ran into some problems along the way. This gave me the time to really meditate on the concept a while, and the thing that was really hooking me about the plot was that we were essentially telling a story about Irish Millennials, a very specific demographic, dealing with a problem that we haven\u2019t seen them challenged with before. I wondered what a generation engrossed in technology, surrounded by fake news, and basically more comfortable than any generation that came before it would react to such a perilous event. Luke was gracious enough to let me take the idea and go off and write something more expansive, which I did. And a hundred pages later I had written a story about a family of Millennials in the countryside town of Ferbane who hear that Dublin has been destroyed by the undead, but don\u2019t know what to believe, and don\u2019t necessarily feel responsible to do anything about it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HTG9a78M6Gk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nHow would you describe Follow the Dead?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a dark comedy about a man in his thirties, Robbie, who can\u2019t manage to find the love he\u2019s looking for in a Tinder-centric society, and only begins to realize what he\u2019s missing when his estranged wife comes back into his life. Unluckily for him, this reunion just so happens to take place right as the town is in a frenzy, divided over the mysterious news that Dublin is experiencing a blackout, and the prevailing theory is that zombies are the cause. To add insult to injury, Robbie has to take care of his wannabe-celebrity sister Liv, who\u2019s trying to use the events to boost her social media presence, and their stoner cousins Jay and Chi, who can\u2019t agree on a single thing. The result: comedy and mayhem.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the cast of Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI had the great privilege of working with some incredible actors for this film, who were honoured with a Best Ensemble Cast nomination from the Seattle Film Festival last year. The dramatic performances from Luke Corcoran, Marybeth Herron, and Cristina Ryan are so moving, and they really carry the weight of the themes surrounding sacrifice and responsibility within the film so incredibly well. I\u2019m so proud of what they brought to the story through their rawness and vulnerability. And then there\u2019s Luke Collins and Tadhg Devery as the stoner cousins who are just so insanely hilarious, in very distinct ways; Luke with his unique physicality, and Tadhg with his incredible turn-of-phrase. We\u2019ve been honoured with numerous Comedy Feature awards internationally, with Tadhg receiving a Best Supporting Actor award from the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival too. I\u2019m really indebted to them for being so impressive in that way, and I really love that the Irish sense of humour (not to mention the accents) has really translated to foreign audiences. Truth be told, we actually filmed Follow the Dead twice. The first time, without a budget, we shot about 60% of the script, but then came back to do it all again with a bigger crew and a pittance of funding later in the year. I did that because I was blown away by the performances from the cast, which really made me believe in them and in what we were creating. So yeah\u2026 That\u2019s how much faith and love I have for these incredible artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207581\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/adamwilliamcahill-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"adamwilliamcahill\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\nYou are the writer, producer and director on Follow the Dead<\/em>. That sounds like a huge amount of work on your shoulders; how did you manage all of these hats?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWell the whole process took so much longer than it should have because of the fact that I was juggling everything. We shot Follow the Dead in August 2017, and it wasn\u2019t ready for festivals until 2020. So it was a case of taking things step by step. This was also my first feature, so I was totally unaware of how mammoth the undertaking was going to be. But that helped in a way, because I wasn\u2019t concerned with how high the mountain was; I had no idea. So I just took each step as it came, learned on the fly, and thankfully it all worked out in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the writing process; what was it like for you?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWriting is one of the most arduous stages of development for me. I\u2019m a perfectionist, and I\u2019m a plotter; I need to know exactly where the story is going and all of the checkpoints along the way before I can get started. So before the script stage I have pages and pages and pages of notes, outlines, charts, and all sorts, and only when I can play the whole movie out visually in my head can I then sit down and write it. The only really improvisational aspect of the scripts I write is the dialogue, which I come up with as I\u2019m typing. Except for the jokes; 90% of them are planned ahead of time too. But I have to say that Follow the Dead<\/em> was the easiest script I\u2019ve written so far, purely because I had done so much meditating about it while we were planning the short film. So I have to thank Luke Corcoran for the inspiration for this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207582\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead1.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nHow did you go about finding the cast?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt was really organic. Luke was always going to play Robbie because I never diverged from that plan since the short film stage. I had worked with Marybeth Herron and Tadhg Devery on my final year student film Inertia<\/em>, and I knew they\u2019d be ideal for Liv and Chi respectively. From there, Tadhg introduced me to Cristina Ryan and Aidan O\u2019Sullivan when we were considering who would play the Garda\u00ed in the film, with the character of Kate also being Robbie\u2019s love interest, and they fit those characters like a glove. And then Luke recommended Luke Collins to play Jay, and Ian Anthony Lawless to play Zippy. They were both primarily theater actors at the time, but did an amazing job bringing that developed stage presence to the big screen. So as you can tell, it was very much a casting process based on relationships, which I think gave us that tight-knit familial connection on set that allowed us to work so well as a team to do what almost none of us had done before.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWas it a difficult task to find the technical crew that you needed to shoot the movie?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt wasn\u2019t difficult on the production side of things. I had seen the cinematography showreel of Stephen C. Walsh on social media somewhere, and I was incredibly impressed with his work. So I reached out to him with the pitch for the feature and he got on board very quickly after that. And we\u2019re tremendously blessed that he did. He was a one man film crew; doing all the camera work, the lighting, the rigging\u2026 He was a beast, and I really felt like I had a lieutenant with me going into battle in what was unfamiliar territory for me, but not at all for him. That was comforting to say the least. Post production was a lot more difficult a stage. I edited the film myself, so that was no problem. But getting a good sound designer and music composer was an ordeal. I was pulling my hair out looking for a sound designer who could take on the challenge; There were a lot of outdoor scenes where the recorded sound was inaudible, and we also needed a lot of effects sounds for the zombies and for the action scenes. After months of searching, I met a fellow filmmaker one evening who recommended Robin Sherry Wood to me, and after that it was smooth sailing. He did an incredible job, even down to creating bottom up sound design for entire scenes, such as the very first scene of the film where Robbie is on a date in the car. None of the audio in that scene was recorded on the day. The car engine, the dialogue, the sounds of motion, absolutely everything was put in in post by Robin, and no one seems to notice a thing when watching it. That\u2019s how good he is. And then with the music\u2026 All I\u2019ll say is\u2026 Just because you can create beautiful music doesn\u2019t mean you know how to score a movie. I went through ten music composers before I found someone who understood how to craft the music around the emotional beats within the scene. That someone is Steven McKenna of DRVN Pictures, and his work speaks for itself. I said I wanted three distinct motifs, and he nailed every one of them. Every now and then I\u2019ll listen to the love theme just for the pleasure of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207583\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead2.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"424\"><\/p>\nWhat was the biggest challenge you overcame when creating Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAside from the post production issues I mentioned, I think it was just the fear of going into the unknown. Especially for the massive cast sequences. Anyone can shoot a scene of two people talking. But shooting an action sequence in the middle of a forest where a horde of zombies are chasing your protagonists and a battle erupts\u2026 That\u2019s not an ordinary day on set. I had absolutely no idea if we\u2019d pull it off. But I knew that if we did, we\u2019d have done something amazing, we\u2019ll have grown as artists from the experience, and I trusted the people I had around me to be able to help me to get the job done. The rest is history. And because of this experience, I\u2019ll never make a movie where I don\u2019t attempt to do something that feels slightly beyond my ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nAre you happy with how the movie turned out?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m blown away by it. Watching the film and seeing what we accomplished, (which I believe is a cinema-quality, funny, emotional, Irish genre film,) never fails to make me feel emotional. And add to that the successful and ongoing festival run, in which we\u2019ve currently amassed 14 wins and 4 nominations, it\u2019s actually insane to think of where we started from and where we\u2019re at with it today. It\u2019s unbelievable.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207584\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead3.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead3\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nWhat has the feedback been like for Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe frustration for us at the moment is that, because of Covid, all of the festivals have been virtual so far, having to move to a digital format until things get back to normal. So although we\u2019ve won awards at practically every festival we\u2019ve screened at, we\u2019ve never seen an audience's reaction in the theater. So that\u2019s been tough, and we\u2019ve no idea how to gauge each individual aspect of the film as a result. We just know it\u2019s been extremely positive feedback on the whole. But we\u2019re looking forward to some live festivals coming up in the next few months, so\u2026 That\u2019s going to be a whole new experience for us. Excited isn\u2019t the word.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould we see more Follow the Dead<\/em> movies in the future?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe sequel is already written. And I sat down with the cast members in November for a script reading and we were falling around laughing. So yeah, we\u2019re hoping to get that one off the ground as soon as we can. And in my head the story is a trilogy. So let\u2019s see how far we get with it. But I love these characters so much; as much as I love working with the actors, so\u2026 I\u2019m totally committed to that journey if we can make it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nIf any of our readers wanted to get their eyes on Follow the Dead<\/em>, how can they do that?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe best thing to do is to follow us on our social media pages. We\u2019re @followthedeadmovie on Facebook and Instagram. (You can also check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">followthedead.com<\/a> if you want a really<\/em> deep dive into the making of the film including a Behind the Scenes documentary.) We\u2019re always posting about what\u2019s happening with the film regarding festivals, news, merchandise, stuff like that. But if you can\u2019t make it to a festival, there\u2019ll be news very soon about how you can catch the film online, exclusively on a brand new and exciting streaming service which will be launching very soon. So keep your eyes peeled for that one.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wz3JRdmLBsk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIf you\u2019ve made it this far into the interview, I sincerely from the bottom of my heart thank you for your interest. I really hope Follow the Dead tickles your fancy if you haven\u2019t yet seen it, and I hope you can check it out very soon. If you want to know what else I\u2019m doing outside of the realm of zombie flicks, my company is Wild Stag Productions. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using @wildstagmedia, or check out the official website at <a href=\"http:\/\/wildstagpoductions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildstagpoductions.com<\/a>. We\u2019re a media company that specializes in making Irish genre films. I basically want to make Irish versions of all my favourite genres, including a Western which I\u2019m writing at the moment. So yeah\u2026 thank you all for your time, and I hope you join us for the next part of our journey!<\/span><\/p>\nA big thank you to Adam for sitting and chatting with us; we wish him the best of luck with his film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.followthedead.com<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a><\/p>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Adam William Cahill","post_excerpt":"Follow the Dead","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-adam-william-cahill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:51:19","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:51:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207575","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207564,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the producers and directors of\u00a0<\/span>Young Plato, a\u00a0<\/span><\/em>documentary set in post-conflict Belfast.<\/span><\/p>\nAn observational documentary set in post-conflict Belfast\u2019s Ardoyne, where a marginalized, working-class community has for generations been plagued by poverty, drugs and guns. This film charts the dream of Headmaster Kevin McArevey and his dedicated visionary team, illustrating how critical thinking and pastoral care can empower and encourage children to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of their own community. We see how philosophy can encourage them to question the mythologies of war and of violence, and challenge the narratives of their community.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207571\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDavid Rane - Producer<\/span><\/p>\nNeasa Ni Chianain - Director<\/span><\/p>\nDeclan McGrath -<\/span> Co-Producer\/Director\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nKevin McArevey - Principal in the school<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207572\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato2-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato2\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207569\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato4.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/p>","post_title":"Young Plato Interviews","post_excerpt":"David Rane","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"young-plato-interviews","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:53:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:53:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207514,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by the writer and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. The very talented Mr Cadwell has worked on numerous comics. Some of the comics he has worked on include: Nelson<\/em>, Lovecraft Anthology 2<\/em>, Sold State Tank Girl<\/em>, Samuari Jack<\/em>, Dangeritis<\/em>, Helena Crash<\/em> and Mr. Higgins Comes Home<\/em>.<\/span>\n\nHi Warwick, happy new year to you. It's a pleasure to have you here with us. <\/span><\/strong>As some of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nHello, and Happy New Year! <\/em>Falconspeare is my third book with Dark Horse comics and Mike Mignola, but before then came<\/em> Samurai Jack, Helena Crash, The Marionette Unit, Dangeritis, and Tank Girl. But aside from comics I have worked for publishers and in the animation industry. I\u2019m just a very enthusiastic drawer\/drawist.<\/em><\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the origins of Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nFalconspeare is the third book in a sort of series (at this stage they can still be read in any order) following the adventures of a group of vampire hunters of old. In this book we discover they shared their formative years with a fourth member,<\/em> James Falconspeare, and here we discover what has happened to him since the group last met many years before.<\/em><\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207518\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp1-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp1\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nHow would you describe the Falconspeare<\/em> graphic novel?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nIt\u2019s a vampire adventure of sorts. These books revel in the classic horror worlds <\/span>of Universal Studios and Hammer Horror, but have their own flavor too. They\u2019re <\/span><\/em>also inspired by Mike Mignola, who wrote the first book,<\/em> Mr. Higgins Comes Home. I <\/em><\/span>have tried to maintain a level of humor in there, too. But this is the darkest book of the three, I think.<\/span><\/em>\n\nFor our readers who are not familiar with Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan. What can you tell us about these characters?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThese are classic vampire adventurers, like Van Helsing or Professor Abronsius. <\/span>Professor Meinhardt is an academic expert in the supernatural, and Mr. Knox is a <\/span>compassionate and careful force for good. Ms. Mary Van Sloan is a spirited fighting <\/span>force. They\u2019re all enthusiastic and brave, but also pretty lucky in a world where the <\/span>forces of evil command a strong upper hand. And in this book we find that James <\/span>Falconspeare is the honorable, law-abiding champion of the group.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207519\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp2-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp2\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhen you were creating the graphic novel, did you write a full script?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI did, eventually. I\u2019m an artist mainly, and very interested in narrative. My process for the last two books was to firstly work out the story in sketches and thumbnails to <\/span>determine what I wanted to do. Then I turned that into a script, which I then redrew as roughs. The two sets of roughs either side of the script aren\u2019t easy to compare., <\/span>however, as the first is spread over many sketchbooks in many sizes and qualities over the course of a few years.<\/span><\/em>\n\nYou are the writer and artist on Falconspeare<\/em>; what do you enjoy being more a writer or an artist?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAn artist I think, but that\u2019s mainly because I\u2019m more comfortable with that aspect. I love getting to grips with writing, and I really enjoy working with word and images to create stories. I like working with writers very much, but I\u2019m really enjoying being in charge of both the script and art to model the stories.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207520\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp3-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nDo you have a favourite character from Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAh! That\u2019s tricky, because I like them all. The main three we\u2019ve already met in the other books get a chance to develop or reaffirm their characters, which is nice. But getting to introduce new characters is great, and there\u2019s plenty in this. There\u2019s a brief appearance from Meinhardt, Knox, and Sloan\u2019s very grumpy butler (Mr. Tuphold). He\u2019s only in a<\/span>couple of panels, but he makes me laugh, and I think he could be a great character in future. Such an angry old character.<\/span><\/em>\n\nCould we see more of Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan in the future?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI certainly hope so, though I\u2019ve got away with a lot so far. Drawing these books is <\/span>amazing fun, and every page throws up more ideas for more stories to tell. So, I hope we get to follow their crazy adventures further.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207521\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp4-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp4\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhat are you currently reading?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nMy reading goes all over the place, often a long way behind. And in that spirit, \u201cAcheron\u201d by Mike Mignola at Dark Horse was ace! Steeple by John Allison, too. I love that series. Kyle Starks and Chris Schweitzer\u2019s<\/em> 6 Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton (Image) was also awesome! Other than that, I\u2019m mainly rereading<\/em> The Tomb Of Dracula or<\/em> Dracula Lives.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nTry out Falconspeare? Follow me for art if they\u2019re keen on Instagram @wocco or <\/em><\/span>on Twitter @warwickjc.<\/em> But mainly I\u2019d encourage ComicBuzz readers to get drawing\/ reading or making. Anything. It\u2019s awesome fun.<\/em><\/span>\n\nA big thank you to Warwick Johnson-Cadwell for taking the time to chat with us. We would like to wish him and his team the best of luck with Falconspeare.<\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Warwick Johnson-Cadwell","post_excerpt":"Falconspeare","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-warwick-johnson-cadwell","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:04:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:04:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207514","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207445,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_content":"With the second issue of the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series out next week from Dark Horse Comics, we are so delighted to be joined by the co-writer of the comic, Rob Williams. Rob Williams has written numerous titles. Some of the titles he has worked on include\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>, Suicide Squad<\/em>,\u00a0Trinity<\/em>,\u00a0Action Comics<\/em>,\u00a0Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>,\u00a0Judge Dredd<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Rob, happy new year to you; it's great to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\nWe have been fans of your work ever since we read\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nThanks! Good memories!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did you get involved with the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019d just done a creepy gangsters-haunted-by-ghosts creator-owned book called Old Haunts\u00a0<\/em>via AWA Studios with Laurence Campbell. Laurence drew\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0for Mike Mignola and Dark Horse for a number of years, and had been talking to Mike and the guys about doing a Gall Dennar barbarian story. He asked if I\u2019d be interested in coming on to write the book, and I think the Hellboy team liked\u00a0Old Haunts<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat made you want to be a part of the Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0<\/em>miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWorking with Laurence is always a treat. He\u2019s brilliant, and one of my best friends. Working with Mike Mignola in the Hellboy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0world? Who wouldn\u2019t want to do that? I\u2019ve enjoyed those comics for the past couple of decades. It\u2019s a treat to be involved in that universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207448\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_1-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_1\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nHow would you describe the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe sword is an important weapon in the end times of the Hellboy\/B.P.R.D. story. It\u2019s a mythical blade much like Excalibur. Our series spans thousands of years and shows you four very different heroes who held the sword at various points before passing it on, allowing us to tell very Hellboy<\/em>-world tales in a Robert E. Howard-like barbarian landscape. Additionally we'll see stories set in World War I, World War II and finally the electric blues scene of Chicago in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series takes place in the world of\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>;\u00a0is the series new reader-friendly?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: We hope so. We\u2019ve certainly tried to make that the case. We had no interest in a big exposition-fest or historical tract. If you know the major points on the\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>\u00a0map, you\u2019ll get a kick out of the references. But really we have four heroes here, three of whom are brand new, and we want to send them on a journey and care about what happens to them. In introducing three new players who don\u2019t know the key facts of this world, readers are really in the same position as them, fighting against an evil they don\u2019t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207449\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_2-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_2\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nWhat is it like writing with Mike Mignola?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA treat, as I said. I\u2019ve been a fan for years. It\u2019s intimidating too, because Mike\u2019s one of the best writers we\u2019ve had in comics, and the level of people he collaborates with is extraordinarily high. But he was very welcoming and a great sounding board for Laurence and me. Mike had a plot in mind for Gall Dennar in issue #1, which we built out from. Then it was a case of a few Zoom calls discussing the world, and Mike leading us to a few places we should probably go. It was a really enjoyable experience.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe rest of the team for\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0consists of Laurence Campbell, Quinton Winter, Clem Robins and Dave Stewart. Were they already a part of the team when you joined the series?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nLaurence was onboard before me, yes. And then I think Laurence suggested colorist Quinton Winter, who lives near him. They know each other. Quinton coloured Unfollow<\/em>, a book of mine from Vertigo a few years ago, which Clem Robins also lettered. Small world. Dave Stewart had coloured Laurence's work on his B.P.R.D.<\/em> run, so he colored our covers.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhen you saw the art from Laurence Campbell and Quinton Winter, what did you think?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: I\u2019m very aware of what Laurence can do, having worked with him so often. He\u2019s a master of mood on the page, a brilliant storyteller. We wanted issue #1 to be an epic Terrence Malick-like quest across this incredible landscape from thousands of years ago, with evil priests, woolly mammoths, immense mountain ranges, and the odd pterodactyl. Laurence and Quinton have brought all that to such vivid life here.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207450\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_3-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_3\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nDo you have a favourite scene from the first issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: Gall Dennar, having been alone on his quest for years and sitting by a fire in the mountains, tripping on some barbarian concoction, calls out to his love from thousands of years in the future and a giant wolf spirit comes to talk to him. Laurence and Quinton did a phenomenal job there. It really feels magical.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell us about the second issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWe move the action through the Victorian London of Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder<\/em>\u00a0to the first ever zeppelin attacks on London, and then to Belgium in the First World War. A German agent called Graf Ling de Gotha is given a mission to find a cult that is undertaking strange ceremonies nearby, trying to summon something unnatural into the world\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207453\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_4-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_4\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can follow my work on Twitter @Robwilliams71 on Instagram on @Robwilliams1971 and on my website<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0Thanks!<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say thank you to Rob for his time and wish him and the team the best of luck with their series.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Rob Williams","post_excerpt":"\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-rob-williams","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:09:48","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:09:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207445","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207361,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_content":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Paula Wiseman chatted with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh about some of his upcoming movie and TV projects, and also about some of his amazing past work, including roles in 'Scorpion', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and 'Transformers - Age of Extinction<\/span>'.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Paula-Wiseman-chats-with-LA-based-Irish-actor--Glenn-Keogh-e1c0li4\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nIrish American actor\u00a0Glenn Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0appears on television twice the same week emerging December 3rd on the CBS action series\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the HBO hit comedy\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on December 5th. Keogh follows that up by heading to the big screen in the Marvel franchise film,\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em><\/strong>, releasing in theaters on December 17th.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the upcoming \u201cA Fire in the Ashes\u201d episode of\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em>, Keogh steps into the action as Parkes, when Magnum (Jay Hernandez) starts following Higgins (Perdita Weeks), who has been secretly assigned to infiltrate a group threatening to take down MI-6.<\/span><\/p>\r\nSwitching gears and going for laughs, Keogh enters into the acclaimed Larry David comedy series,\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em>, during the episode \u201cIrma Kostroski.\u201d The semi-improvised storyline is being kept under wraps, but revolves around Larry\u2019s latest predicament at work.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAudiences can also catch Keogh in theaters everywhere as part of the latest adventure facing Marvel\u2019s web-spinning superhero in\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em>. Directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man, whose identity now revealed, forces Peter into asking Doctor Strange for help.<\/span><\/p>\r\nKeogh is thrilled to have not one, not two, but three roles hitting screens in December, adding \u201cI was truly blessed to get to work my acting chops this year across these roles, in Honolulu, Atlanta and Los Angeles. All very different characters and a ton of fun to get to play in the Marvel, Curb and Magnum worlds! Excited to see them play out on screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFans will recall Keogh from his first Marvel adventure as the mischievous alien \u2018TROK\u2019 from\u00a0<\/em>Season 6 of ABC\u2019s beloved series,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. He also gained attention for starring alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Atkins in the sci-fi indie feature film,\u00a0Encounter,\u00a0<\/em>and for appearing in Michael Bay\u2019s blockbuster action film,\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Keogh proved a standout as King Fergus on ABC\u2019s fairytale fantasy drama,\u00a0Once Upon a\u00a0<\/em>Time, and recurring as Sean O\u2019Brien, father of Walter (Elyes Gabel), on the CBS drama,\u00a0Scorpion<\/em>. Keogh has worked all over the world in film and television projects including prominent roles in\u00a0Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan, The O.A., Criminal Minds, NCIS, Castle, Undercovers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0New Girl.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Paula Wiseman chats with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh","post_excerpt":"LA based Irish actor","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"paula-wiseman-chats-with-la-based-irish-actor-glenn-keogh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:31:21","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:31:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207361","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207274,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_content":"With the release of his first novel,\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em> we are delighted to be joined by the multi-talented Dave Thomas. Dave is not only an actor but a comedian, writer, producer and director. We got a chance to sit down and chat with Dave bout his novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nSome of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can find out who I am by looking at my website<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davethomas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0davethomas.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0But here is a short rundown of some of the things I have done, pulled from my biography:<\/span><\/p>\nThough new to writing books, I have done every type of television in every capacity, from sketch comedy and sitcoms to reality and game shows, animation and one hour drama. I started his career in comedy, as a writer\/performer for the Emmy Award-winning NBC sketch comedy show\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. I co-wrote the movie\u00a0Spies Like Us<\/em>\u00a0with Dan Aykroyd and directed and co-wrote the MGM cult classic\u00a0Strange Brew\u00a0<\/em>with Rick Moranis. I wrote and performed on a Grammy Award nominated album for Polygram with Rick. I directed\u00a0The Experts<\/em>\u00a0starring John Travolta for Paramount. I was executive produced and starred in my own comedy series for CBS,\u00a0the Dave Thomas Show<\/em>. From 1993 to 1998, i wrote for and co-starred in 115 episodes of the ABC sitcom\u00a0Grace Under Fire<\/em>. While working on that show I created a game show called\u00a0Family Challenge<\/em>\u00a0and produced 144 episodes for the Family Channel. My company Maple Palm Productions produced movies for Fox and HBO \u2013 most notably\u00a0Ambushed\u00a0<\/em>(Courtney Vance, Virginia Masden, William Forsythe and Robert Patrick). I co-created and executive produced\u00a0America\u2019s Funniest People\u00a0<\/em>(ABC) with Vin DiBona and I was executive producer of\u00a0the<\/em> Dennis Miller Show<\/em>\u00a0for Tribune. In 2001, I founded an animation company called Animax Entertainment and produced animation series for ABC (Slacker Cats<\/em>), ESPN (Off Mikes<\/em>), and MTV (Popzilla and Big Box<\/em>) and Global television in Canada (Bob and Doug<\/em>). I won my second Emmy Award for Animax\u2019s ESPN show\u00a0\u201cOff Mikes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in 2006. Lured into drama writing by his pal, Hart Hanson, Dave wrote a spec script for\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Fox) that was produced in 2008 and then Hart asked Dave to join the writing staff of\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0for more than 50 episodes as a Consulting Producer. After three years with Bones, I was asked to join the writing staff of NBC\u2019s the\u00a0Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0also as a consulting producer. This year, along with the cast of SCTV, I produced a reunion show called\u00a0An Afternoon with SCTV<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix directed by Martin Scorcese. Currently, I am writing his second book entitled\u00a0The Perfect Life<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDid you always want to write a novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNo, writing a novel is something I didn\u2019t really think about until a couple of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat are some of the novels that you enjoy?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMy two favorite novels are\u00a0What Dreams May Come<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Matheson and\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Josh Bazell. I am now and always have been a fan of all of Max Allan Collin\u2019s work \u2013 especially his historical fictions\u00a0The Titanic Murders<\/em>,\u00a0Flying Blind<\/em>and\u00a0Ask Not<\/em>.\u00a0And my pal, Hart Hanson write a book called\u00a0The Driver<\/em>\u00a0which I really enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy Leighton started out as a pitch for a television series. I became frustrated with the lack of response and started writing it as a novel. After writing three chapters, I put it aside and continued with more TV work. Max Allan Collins read those three chapters and he encouraged me to write more. Max is a very generous person and he offered to help me get a book agent and a publisher. And then he said, \u201cBut what I\u2019d rather do is write it with you.\u201d Well, Max is a renowned mystery writer who has written more than 100 novels. I had written none. So I would have to be an idiot not to take him up on an offer like that. The truth is, even though I started the book without him, I probably would never have finished it if Max hadn\u2019t written it with me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nYou co-wrote\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton\u00a0with Max Allan Collins; how did that come about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA mutual friend, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), introduced Max and I at San Diego\u2019s Comicon. Max and I met in person there very briefly but hit it off and continued the friendship by phone even though Max is in Muscatine Iowa, and I am in Los Angeles. Of particular note: this is a COVID collaboration \u2013 Max and I were never in the same room for one second of the writing. It was all done on phone and Zoom calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBefore Max got involved, had you started to write the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYes, I wrote three chapters on my own, but only the Many Worlds sci-fi part. The mystery thread was not part of my original conception. That\u2019s something Max and I came up with after we started working on the book together.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow would you describe\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very strange little sci fi mystery thriller. It\u2019s a mix of police detective work and the theoretical ideas in quantum physics. The book tells the story of a small-time thief (Jimmy Leighton) who flees South Boston to escape from a Vietnamese gangster. Hiding out in Cambridge, Jimmy needs money and breaks into the house of a M.I.T. Physicist who happens to be running a quantum experiment in his basement based on the work of Princeton Physicist Hugh Everett III. Nosey little Jimmy connects the wrong outlet to the wrong cable from a stack of quantum batteries and finds himself transported to another version of his life 1000 miles away in Chicago. And that is only the beginning of his adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell about Jimmy Leighton?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy is not the sharpest tool in the shed when the book starts out but the experience of living several versions of his life is kind of a quantum school. Jimmy finally figures it out and finds a way to get what he needs to be happy. He was an orphan from South Boston who bounced around in foster homes the social service\u2019s system. Abused by at least two foster fathers, Jimmy ran away and hit the streets, becoming a homeless panhandler at the age of 12. But he had incredible street smarts and managed to survive, dodging the law and other homeless folk who preyed upon kids like him. He started robbing houses when he was 14 and became a seriously successful second story man, respected by many in the Boston crime community.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did NeoText end up publishing the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMax had the connection to NeoText because he had written a book with them before he met me. And Max made the deal for the book. I knew it would be a difficult sell because it\u2019s a cross-genre book. It\u2019s a sci-fi and it\u2019s a detective mystery thriller. A lot of publishers won\u2019t take a chance on cross-genre. They worry that their readers won\u2019t understand it. Or that they may become frightened reading the book because it does not stay within the preconceived expectations they had for it. But John Schoenfelder at Neo Text is a very open-minded man. And he\u2019s very supportive of his artists \u2013 that\u2019s what he calls us. No one in my 40 years working for television and film ever called me an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat was it like co-writing with Max Allan Collins?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI was surprised by how much Max and I have in common. I was familiar with some of his work, but the fact is, he has written so many books that, to be aware of them all, would\u2019ve been impossible. For example, I\u2019m a historical student of the Titanic disaster but Max actually wrote a book about a fictitious murder that takes place on that fateful voyage. To write a novel where you play out the action onboard that ship necessitated doing an incredible amount of research. So, Max and I were able to swap stories on that. Same thing with the Kennedy Assassination. And a lot of other things. We became fast friends during our collaboration writing this book. And there\u2019s no better way to get to know someone than working together on a book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFay Dalton created a lovely illustration for\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton;\u00a0was that her composition, or did you suggest ideas for it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s definitely her composition. We gave her some suggestions, but it was Faye who came up with the actual cover for the book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping ComicBuzz readers like this book. I think it definitely conforms to the comic book style of writing. Both Max and I think very visually, and I believe we painted word pictures for our readers that they will enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say a big thank you to Dave for taking the time to chat with us and we wish him and Max the best of luck with their novel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Dave Thomas","post_excerpt":"The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-dave-thomas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:32:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:32:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207274","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":16},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_22"};</script></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4e19fa1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-epic_archive_pagination_elementor" data-id="4e19fa1" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="epic_archive_pagination_elementor.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="jeg_navigation jeg_pagination jeg_pagenav_1 jeg_aligncenter no_pageinfo"> Page 16 of 32 <a class="page_nav prev" data-id="15" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/">Previous</a> <a class='page_number' data-id='1' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/'>1</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='15' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/'>15</a> 16 <a class='page_number' data-id='17' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/'>17</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='32' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/32/'>32</a> <a class="page_nav next" data-id="17" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/">Next</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></section> \n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207604\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast4-692x1024.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast4\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of The Feast","post_excerpt":"Lee Haven Jones","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-the-feast","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:44:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:44:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207592","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207575,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_content":"We are joined today by Irish filmmaker Adam William Cahill. Adam sat down with us to talk about his new film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Adam, it is so wonderful to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m an Irish filmmaker from Dublin, and the company director of Wild Stag Productions. I studied film production and earned my bachelor degree from the University of Wolverhampton. Straight out of college I decided to sink or swim as far as diving straight into the industry goes, and that\u2019s how I ended up making my first feature film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you tell us about the origins of <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nInitially it was a short film idea imagined by Luke Corcoran, the actor who would become the lead in the feature film. He wrote a short script about three flatmates in Dublin who come across a zombie in their apartment and comedic mayhem ensues. We were initially going to shoot that script, which was called Craic of the Dead (\u201ccraic\u201d being an Irish colloquialism for fun), but we ran into some problems along the way. This gave me the time to really meditate on the concept a while, and the thing that was really hooking me about the plot was that we were essentially telling a story about Irish Millennials, a very specific demographic, dealing with a problem that we haven\u2019t seen them challenged with before. I wondered what a generation engrossed in technology, surrounded by fake news, and basically more comfortable than any generation that came before it would react to such a perilous event. Luke was gracious enough to let me take the idea and go off and write something more expansive, which I did. And a hundred pages later I had written a story about a family of Millennials in the countryside town of Ferbane who hear that Dublin has been destroyed by the undead, but don\u2019t know what to believe, and don\u2019t necessarily feel responsible to do anything about it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HTG9a78M6Gk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nHow would you describe Follow the Dead?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a dark comedy about a man in his thirties, Robbie, who can\u2019t manage to find the love he\u2019s looking for in a Tinder-centric society, and only begins to realize what he\u2019s missing when his estranged wife comes back into his life. Unluckily for him, this reunion just so happens to take place right as the town is in a frenzy, divided over the mysterious news that Dublin is experiencing a blackout, and the prevailing theory is that zombies are the cause. To add insult to injury, Robbie has to take care of his wannabe-celebrity sister Liv, who\u2019s trying to use the events to boost her social media presence, and their stoner cousins Jay and Chi, who can\u2019t agree on a single thing. The result: comedy and mayhem.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the cast of Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI had the great privilege of working with some incredible actors for this film, who were honoured with a Best Ensemble Cast nomination from the Seattle Film Festival last year. The dramatic performances from Luke Corcoran, Marybeth Herron, and Cristina Ryan are so moving, and they really carry the weight of the themes surrounding sacrifice and responsibility within the film so incredibly well. I\u2019m so proud of what they brought to the story through their rawness and vulnerability. And then there\u2019s Luke Collins and Tadhg Devery as the stoner cousins who are just so insanely hilarious, in very distinct ways; Luke with his unique physicality, and Tadhg with his incredible turn-of-phrase. We\u2019ve been honoured with numerous Comedy Feature awards internationally, with Tadhg receiving a Best Supporting Actor award from the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival too. I\u2019m really indebted to them for being so impressive in that way, and I really love that the Irish sense of humour (not to mention the accents) has really translated to foreign audiences. Truth be told, we actually filmed Follow the Dead twice. The first time, without a budget, we shot about 60% of the script, but then came back to do it all again with a bigger crew and a pittance of funding later in the year. I did that because I was blown away by the performances from the cast, which really made me believe in them and in what we were creating. So yeah\u2026 That\u2019s how much faith and love I have for these incredible artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207581\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/adamwilliamcahill-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"adamwilliamcahill\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\nYou are the writer, producer and director on Follow the Dead<\/em>. That sounds like a huge amount of work on your shoulders; how did you manage all of these hats?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWell the whole process took so much longer than it should have because of the fact that I was juggling everything. We shot Follow the Dead in August 2017, and it wasn\u2019t ready for festivals until 2020. So it was a case of taking things step by step. This was also my first feature, so I was totally unaware of how mammoth the undertaking was going to be. But that helped in a way, because I wasn\u2019t concerned with how high the mountain was; I had no idea. So I just took each step as it came, learned on the fly, and thankfully it all worked out in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the writing process; what was it like for you?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWriting is one of the most arduous stages of development for me. I\u2019m a perfectionist, and I\u2019m a plotter; I need to know exactly where the story is going and all of the checkpoints along the way before I can get started. So before the script stage I have pages and pages and pages of notes, outlines, charts, and all sorts, and only when I can play the whole movie out visually in my head can I then sit down and write it. The only really improvisational aspect of the scripts I write is the dialogue, which I come up with as I\u2019m typing. Except for the jokes; 90% of them are planned ahead of time too. But I have to say that Follow the Dead<\/em> was the easiest script I\u2019ve written so far, purely because I had done so much meditating about it while we were planning the short film. So I have to thank Luke Corcoran for the inspiration for this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207582\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead1.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nHow did you go about finding the cast?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt was really organic. Luke was always going to play Robbie because I never diverged from that plan since the short film stage. I had worked with Marybeth Herron and Tadhg Devery on my final year student film Inertia<\/em>, and I knew they\u2019d be ideal for Liv and Chi respectively. From there, Tadhg introduced me to Cristina Ryan and Aidan O\u2019Sullivan when we were considering who would play the Garda\u00ed in the film, with the character of Kate also being Robbie\u2019s love interest, and they fit those characters like a glove. And then Luke recommended Luke Collins to play Jay, and Ian Anthony Lawless to play Zippy. They were both primarily theater actors at the time, but did an amazing job bringing that developed stage presence to the big screen. So as you can tell, it was very much a casting process based on relationships, which I think gave us that tight-knit familial connection on set that allowed us to work so well as a team to do what almost none of us had done before.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWas it a difficult task to find the technical crew that you needed to shoot the movie?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt wasn\u2019t difficult on the production side of things. I had seen the cinematography showreel of Stephen C. Walsh on social media somewhere, and I was incredibly impressed with his work. So I reached out to him with the pitch for the feature and he got on board very quickly after that. And we\u2019re tremendously blessed that he did. He was a one man film crew; doing all the camera work, the lighting, the rigging\u2026 He was a beast, and I really felt like I had a lieutenant with me going into battle in what was unfamiliar territory for me, but not at all for him. That was comforting to say the least. Post production was a lot more difficult a stage. I edited the film myself, so that was no problem. But getting a good sound designer and music composer was an ordeal. I was pulling my hair out looking for a sound designer who could take on the challenge; There were a lot of outdoor scenes where the recorded sound was inaudible, and we also needed a lot of effects sounds for the zombies and for the action scenes. After months of searching, I met a fellow filmmaker one evening who recommended Robin Sherry Wood to me, and after that it was smooth sailing. He did an incredible job, even down to creating bottom up sound design for entire scenes, such as the very first scene of the film where Robbie is on a date in the car. None of the audio in that scene was recorded on the day. The car engine, the dialogue, the sounds of motion, absolutely everything was put in in post by Robin, and no one seems to notice a thing when watching it. That\u2019s how good he is. And then with the music\u2026 All I\u2019ll say is\u2026 Just because you can create beautiful music doesn\u2019t mean you know how to score a movie. I went through ten music composers before I found someone who understood how to craft the music around the emotional beats within the scene. That someone is Steven McKenna of DRVN Pictures, and his work speaks for itself. I said I wanted three distinct motifs, and he nailed every one of them. Every now and then I\u2019ll listen to the love theme just for the pleasure of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207583\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead2.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"424\"><\/p>\nWhat was the biggest challenge you overcame when creating Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAside from the post production issues I mentioned, I think it was just the fear of going into the unknown. Especially for the massive cast sequences. Anyone can shoot a scene of two people talking. But shooting an action sequence in the middle of a forest where a horde of zombies are chasing your protagonists and a battle erupts\u2026 That\u2019s not an ordinary day on set. I had absolutely no idea if we\u2019d pull it off. But I knew that if we did, we\u2019d have done something amazing, we\u2019ll have grown as artists from the experience, and I trusted the people I had around me to be able to help me to get the job done. The rest is history. And because of this experience, I\u2019ll never make a movie where I don\u2019t attempt to do something that feels slightly beyond my ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nAre you happy with how the movie turned out?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m blown away by it. Watching the film and seeing what we accomplished, (which I believe is a cinema-quality, funny, emotional, Irish genre film,) never fails to make me feel emotional. And add to that the successful and ongoing festival run, in which we\u2019ve currently amassed 14 wins and 4 nominations, it\u2019s actually insane to think of where we started from and where we\u2019re at with it today. It\u2019s unbelievable.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207584\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead3.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead3\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nWhat has the feedback been like for Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe frustration for us at the moment is that, because of Covid, all of the festivals have been virtual so far, having to move to a digital format until things get back to normal. So although we\u2019ve won awards at practically every festival we\u2019ve screened at, we\u2019ve never seen an audience's reaction in the theater. So that\u2019s been tough, and we\u2019ve no idea how to gauge each individual aspect of the film as a result. We just know it\u2019s been extremely positive feedback on the whole. But we\u2019re looking forward to some live festivals coming up in the next few months, so\u2026 That\u2019s going to be a whole new experience for us. Excited isn\u2019t the word.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould we see more Follow the Dead<\/em> movies in the future?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe sequel is already written. And I sat down with the cast members in November for a script reading and we were falling around laughing. So yeah, we\u2019re hoping to get that one off the ground as soon as we can. And in my head the story is a trilogy. So let\u2019s see how far we get with it. But I love these characters so much; as much as I love working with the actors, so\u2026 I\u2019m totally committed to that journey if we can make it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nIf any of our readers wanted to get their eyes on Follow the Dead<\/em>, how can they do that?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe best thing to do is to follow us on our social media pages. We\u2019re @followthedeadmovie on Facebook and Instagram. (You can also check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">followthedead.com<\/a> if you want a really<\/em> deep dive into the making of the film including a Behind the Scenes documentary.) We\u2019re always posting about what\u2019s happening with the film regarding festivals, news, merchandise, stuff like that. But if you can\u2019t make it to a festival, there\u2019ll be news very soon about how you can catch the film online, exclusively on a brand new and exciting streaming service which will be launching very soon. So keep your eyes peeled for that one.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wz3JRdmLBsk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIf you\u2019ve made it this far into the interview, I sincerely from the bottom of my heart thank you for your interest. I really hope Follow the Dead tickles your fancy if you haven\u2019t yet seen it, and I hope you can check it out very soon. If you want to know what else I\u2019m doing outside of the realm of zombie flicks, my company is Wild Stag Productions. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using @wildstagmedia, or check out the official website at <a href=\"http:\/\/wildstagpoductions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildstagpoductions.com<\/a>. We\u2019re a media company that specializes in making Irish genre films. I basically want to make Irish versions of all my favourite genres, including a Western which I\u2019m writing at the moment. So yeah\u2026 thank you all for your time, and I hope you join us for the next part of our journey!<\/span><\/p>\nA big thank you to Adam for sitting and chatting with us; we wish him the best of luck with his film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.followthedead.com<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a><\/p>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Adam William Cahill","post_excerpt":"Follow the Dead","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-adam-william-cahill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:51:19","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:51:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207575","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207564,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the producers and directors of\u00a0<\/span>Young Plato, a\u00a0<\/span><\/em>documentary set in post-conflict Belfast.<\/span><\/p>\nAn observational documentary set in post-conflict Belfast\u2019s Ardoyne, where a marginalized, working-class community has for generations been plagued by poverty, drugs and guns. This film charts the dream of Headmaster Kevin McArevey and his dedicated visionary team, illustrating how critical thinking and pastoral care can empower and encourage children to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of their own community. We see how philosophy can encourage them to question the mythologies of war and of violence, and challenge the narratives of their community.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207571\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDavid Rane - Producer<\/span><\/p>\nNeasa Ni Chianain - Director<\/span><\/p>\nDeclan McGrath -<\/span> Co-Producer\/Director\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nKevin McArevey - Principal in the school<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207572\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato2-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato2\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207569\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato4.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/p>","post_title":"Young Plato Interviews","post_excerpt":"David Rane","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"young-plato-interviews","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:53:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:53:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207514,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by the writer and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. The very talented Mr Cadwell has worked on numerous comics. Some of the comics he has worked on include: Nelson<\/em>, Lovecraft Anthology 2<\/em>, Sold State Tank Girl<\/em>, Samuari Jack<\/em>, Dangeritis<\/em>, Helena Crash<\/em> and Mr. Higgins Comes Home<\/em>.<\/span>\n\nHi Warwick, happy new year to you. It's a pleasure to have you here with us. <\/span><\/strong>As some of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nHello, and Happy New Year! <\/em>Falconspeare is my third book with Dark Horse comics and Mike Mignola, but before then came<\/em> Samurai Jack, Helena Crash, The Marionette Unit, Dangeritis, and Tank Girl. But aside from comics I have worked for publishers and in the animation industry. I\u2019m just a very enthusiastic drawer\/drawist.<\/em><\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the origins of Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nFalconspeare is the third book in a sort of series (at this stage they can still be read in any order) following the adventures of a group of vampire hunters of old. In this book we discover they shared their formative years with a fourth member,<\/em> James Falconspeare, and here we discover what has happened to him since the group last met many years before.<\/em><\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207518\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp1-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp1\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nHow would you describe the Falconspeare<\/em> graphic novel?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nIt\u2019s a vampire adventure of sorts. These books revel in the classic horror worlds <\/span>of Universal Studios and Hammer Horror, but have their own flavor too. They\u2019re <\/span><\/em>also inspired by Mike Mignola, who wrote the first book,<\/em> Mr. Higgins Comes Home. I <\/em><\/span>have tried to maintain a level of humor in there, too. But this is the darkest book of the three, I think.<\/span><\/em>\n\nFor our readers who are not familiar with Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan. What can you tell us about these characters?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThese are classic vampire adventurers, like Van Helsing or Professor Abronsius. <\/span>Professor Meinhardt is an academic expert in the supernatural, and Mr. Knox is a <\/span>compassionate and careful force for good. Ms. Mary Van Sloan is a spirited fighting <\/span>force. They\u2019re all enthusiastic and brave, but also pretty lucky in a world where the <\/span>forces of evil command a strong upper hand. And in this book we find that James <\/span>Falconspeare is the honorable, law-abiding champion of the group.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207519\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp2-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp2\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhen you were creating the graphic novel, did you write a full script?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI did, eventually. I\u2019m an artist mainly, and very interested in narrative. My process for the last two books was to firstly work out the story in sketches and thumbnails to <\/span>determine what I wanted to do. Then I turned that into a script, which I then redrew as roughs. The two sets of roughs either side of the script aren\u2019t easy to compare., <\/span>however, as the first is spread over many sketchbooks in many sizes and qualities over the course of a few years.<\/span><\/em>\n\nYou are the writer and artist on Falconspeare<\/em>; what do you enjoy being more a writer or an artist?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAn artist I think, but that\u2019s mainly because I\u2019m more comfortable with that aspect. I love getting to grips with writing, and I really enjoy working with word and images to create stories. I like working with writers very much, but I\u2019m really enjoying being in charge of both the script and art to model the stories.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207520\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp3-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nDo you have a favourite character from Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAh! That\u2019s tricky, because I like them all. The main three we\u2019ve already met in the other books get a chance to develop or reaffirm their characters, which is nice. But getting to introduce new characters is great, and there\u2019s plenty in this. There\u2019s a brief appearance from Meinhardt, Knox, and Sloan\u2019s very grumpy butler (Mr. Tuphold). He\u2019s only in a<\/span>couple of panels, but he makes me laugh, and I think he could be a great character in future. Such an angry old character.<\/span><\/em>\n\nCould we see more of Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan in the future?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI certainly hope so, though I\u2019ve got away with a lot so far. Drawing these books is <\/span>amazing fun, and every page throws up more ideas for more stories to tell. So, I hope we get to follow their crazy adventures further.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207521\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp4-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp4\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhat are you currently reading?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nMy reading goes all over the place, often a long way behind. And in that spirit, \u201cAcheron\u201d by Mike Mignola at Dark Horse was ace! Steeple by John Allison, too. I love that series. Kyle Starks and Chris Schweitzer\u2019s<\/em> 6 Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton (Image) was also awesome! Other than that, I\u2019m mainly rereading<\/em> The Tomb Of Dracula or<\/em> Dracula Lives.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nTry out Falconspeare? Follow me for art if they\u2019re keen on Instagram @wocco or <\/em><\/span>on Twitter @warwickjc.<\/em> But mainly I\u2019d encourage ComicBuzz readers to get drawing\/ reading or making. Anything. It\u2019s awesome fun.<\/em><\/span>\n\nA big thank you to Warwick Johnson-Cadwell for taking the time to chat with us. We would like to wish him and his team the best of luck with Falconspeare.<\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Warwick Johnson-Cadwell","post_excerpt":"Falconspeare","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-warwick-johnson-cadwell","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:04:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:04:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207514","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207445,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_content":"With the second issue of the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series out next week from Dark Horse Comics, we are so delighted to be joined by the co-writer of the comic, Rob Williams. Rob Williams has written numerous titles. Some of the titles he has worked on include\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>, Suicide Squad<\/em>,\u00a0Trinity<\/em>,\u00a0Action Comics<\/em>,\u00a0Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>,\u00a0Judge Dredd<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Rob, happy new year to you; it's great to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\nWe have been fans of your work ever since we read\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nThanks! Good memories!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did you get involved with the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019d just done a creepy gangsters-haunted-by-ghosts creator-owned book called Old Haunts\u00a0<\/em>via AWA Studios with Laurence Campbell. Laurence drew\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0for Mike Mignola and Dark Horse for a number of years, and had been talking to Mike and the guys about doing a Gall Dennar barbarian story. He asked if I\u2019d be interested in coming on to write the book, and I think the Hellboy team liked\u00a0Old Haunts<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat made you want to be a part of the Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0<\/em>miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWorking with Laurence is always a treat. He\u2019s brilliant, and one of my best friends. Working with Mike Mignola in the Hellboy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0world? Who wouldn\u2019t want to do that? I\u2019ve enjoyed those comics for the past couple of decades. It\u2019s a treat to be involved in that universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207448\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_1-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_1\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nHow would you describe the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe sword is an important weapon in the end times of the Hellboy\/B.P.R.D. story. It\u2019s a mythical blade much like Excalibur. Our series spans thousands of years and shows you four very different heroes who held the sword at various points before passing it on, allowing us to tell very Hellboy<\/em>-world tales in a Robert E. Howard-like barbarian landscape. Additionally we'll see stories set in World War I, World War II and finally the electric blues scene of Chicago in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series takes place in the world of\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>;\u00a0is the series new reader-friendly?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: We hope so. We\u2019ve certainly tried to make that the case. We had no interest in a big exposition-fest or historical tract. If you know the major points on the\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>\u00a0map, you\u2019ll get a kick out of the references. But really we have four heroes here, three of whom are brand new, and we want to send them on a journey and care about what happens to them. In introducing three new players who don\u2019t know the key facts of this world, readers are really in the same position as them, fighting against an evil they don\u2019t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207449\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_2-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_2\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nWhat is it like writing with Mike Mignola?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA treat, as I said. I\u2019ve been a fan for years. It\u2019s intimidating too, because Mike\u2019s one of the best writers we\u2019ve had in comics, and the level of people he collaborates with is extraordinarily high. But he was very welcoming and a great sounding board for Laurence and me. Mike had a plot in mind for Gall Dennar in issue #1, which we built out from. Then it was a case of a few Zoom calls discussing the world, and Mike leading us to a few places we should probably go. It was a really enjoyable experience.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe rest of the team for\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0consists of Laurence Campbell, Quinton Winter, Clem Robins and Dave Stewart. Were they already a part of the team when you joined the series?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nLaurence was onboard before me, yes. And then I think Laurence suggested colorist Quinton Winter, who lives near him. They know each other. Quinton coloured Unfollow<\/em>, a book of mine from Vertigo a few years ago, which Clem Robins also lettered. Small world. Dave Stewart had coloured Laurence's work on his B.P.R.D.<\/em> run, so he colored our covers.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhen you saw the art from Laurence Campbell and Quinton Winter, what did you think?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: I\u2019m very aware of what Laurence can do, having worked with him so often. He\u2019s a master of mood on the page, a brilliant storyteller. We wanted issue #1 to be an epic Terrence Malick-like quest across this incredible landscape from thousands of years ago, with evil priests, woolly mammoths, immense mountain ranges, and the odd pterodactyl. Laurence and Quinton have brought all that to such vivid life here.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207450\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_3-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_3\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nDo you have a favourite scene from the first issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: Gall Dennar, having been alone on his quest for years and sitting by a fire in the mountains, tripping on some barbarian concoction, calls out to his love from thousands of years in the future and a giant wolf spirit comes to talk to him. Laurence and Quinton did a phenomenal job there. It really feels magical.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell us about the second issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWe move the action through the Victorian London of Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder<\/em>\u00a0to the first ever zeppelin attacks on London, and then to Belgium in the First World War. A German agent called Graf Ling de Gotha is given a mission to find a cult that is undertaking strange ceremonies nearby, trying to summon something unnatural into the world\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207453\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_4-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_4\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can follow my work on Twitter @Robwilliams71 on Instagram on @Robwilliams1971 and on my website<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0Thanks!<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say thank you to Rob for his time and wish him and the team the best of luck with their series.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Rob Williams","post_excerpt":"\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-rob-williams","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:09:48","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:09:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207445","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207361,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_content":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Paula Wiseman chatted with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh about some of his upcoming movie and TV projects, and also about some of his amazing past work, including roles in 'Scorpion', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and 'Transformers - Age of Extinction<\/span>'.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Paula-Wiseman-chats-with-LA-based-Irish-actor--Glenn-Keogh-e1c0li4\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nIrish American actor\u00a0Glenn Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0appears on television twice the same week emerging December 3rd on the CBS action series\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the HBO hit comedy\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on December 5th. Keogh follows that up by heading to the big screen in the Marvel franchise film,\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em><\/strong>, releasing in theaters on December 17th.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the upcoming \u201cA Fire in the Ashes\u201d episode of\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em>, Keogh steps into the action as Parkes, when Magnum (Jay Hernandez) starts following Higgins (Perdita Weeks), who has been secretly assigned to infiltrate a group threatening to take down MI-6.<\/span><\/p>\r\nSwitching gears and going for laughs, Keogh enters into the acclaimed Larry David comedy series,\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em>, during the episode \u201cIrma Kostroski.\u201d The semi-improvised storyline is being kept under wraps, but revolves around Larry\u2019s latest predicament at work.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAudiences can also catch Keogh in theaters everywhere as part of the latest adventure facing Marvel\u2019s web-spinning superhero in\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em>. Directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man, whose identity now revealed, forces Peter into asking Doctor Strange for help.<\/span><\/p>\r\nKeogh is thrilled to have not one, not two, but three roles hitting screens in December, adding \u201cI was truly blessed to get to work my acting chops this year across these roles, in Honolulu, Atlanta and Los Angeles. All very different characters and a ton of fun to get to play in the Marvel, Curb and Magnum worlds! Excited to see them play out on screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFans will recall Keogh from his first Marvel adventure as the mischievous alien \u2018TROK\u2019 from\u00a0<\/em>Season 6 of ABC\u2019s beloved series,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. He also gained attention for starring alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Atkins in the sci-fi indie feature film,\u00a0Encounter,\u00a0<\/em>and for appearing in Michael Bay\u2019s blockbuster action film,\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Keogh proved a standout as King Fergus on ABC\u2019s fairytale fantasy drama,\u00a0Once Upon a\u00a0<\/em>Time, and recurring as Sean O\u2019Brien, father of Walter (Elyes Gabel), on the CBS drama,\u00a0Scorpion<\/em>. Keogh has worked all over the world in film and television projects including prominent roles in\u00a0Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan, The O.A., Criminal Minds, NCIS, Castle, Undercovers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0New Girl.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Paula Wiseman chats with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh","post_excerpt":"LA based Irish actor","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"paula-wiseman-chats-with-la-based-irish-actor-glenn-keogh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:31:21","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:31:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207361","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207274,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_content":"With the release of his first novel,\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em> we are delighted to be joined by the multi-talented Dave Thomas. Dave is not only an actor but a comedian, writer, producer and director. We got a chance to sit down and chat with Dave bout his novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nSome of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can find out who I am by looking at my website<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davethomas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0davethomas.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0But here is a short rundown of some of the things I have done, pulled from my biography:<\/span><\/p>\nThough new to writing books, I have done every type of television in every capacity, from sketch comedy and sitcoms to reality and game shows, animation and one hour drama. I started his career in comedy, as a writer\/performer for the Emmy Award-winning NBC sketch comedy show\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. I co-wrote the movie\u00a0Spies Like Us<\/em>\u00a0with Dan Aykroyd and directed and co-wrote the MGM cult classic\u00a0Strange Brew\u00a0<\/em>with Rick Moranis. I wrote and performed on a Grammy Award nominated album for Polygram with Rick. I directed\u00a0The Experts<\/em>\u00a0starring John Travolta for Paramount. I was executive produced and starred in my own comedy series for CBS,\u00a0the Dave Thomas Show<\/em>. From 1993 to 1998, i wrote for and co-starred in 115 episodes of the ABC sitcom\u00a0Grace Under Fire<\/em>. While working on that show I created a game show called\u00a0Family Challenge<\/em>\u00a0and produced 144 episodes for the Family Channel. My company Maple Palm Productions produced movies for Fox and HBO \u2013 most notably\u00a0Ambushed\u00a0<\/em>(Courtney Vance, Virginia Masden, William Forsythe and Robert Patrick). I co-created and executive produced\u00a0America\u2019s Funniest People\u00a0<\/em>(ABC) with Vin DiBona and I was executive producer of\u00a0the<\/em> Dennis Miller Show<\/em>\u00a0for Tribune. In 2001, I founded an animation company called Animax Entertainment and produced animation series for ABC (Slacker Cats<\/em>), ESPN (Off Mikes<\/em>), and MTV (Popzilla and Big Box<\/em>) and Global television in Canada (Bob and Doug<\/em>). I won my second Emmy Award for Animax\u2019s ESPN show\u00a0\u201cOff Mikes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in 2006. Lured into drama writing by his pal, Hart Hanson, Dave wrote a spec script for\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Fox) that was produced in 2008 and then Hart asked Dave to join the writing staff of\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0for more than 50 episodes as a Consulting Producer. After three years with Bones, I was asked to join the writing staff of NBC\u2019s the\u00a0Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0also as a consulting producer. This year, along with the cast of SCTV, I produced a reunion show called\u00a0An Afternoon with SCTV<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix directed by Martin Scorcese. Currently, I am writing his second book entitled\u00a0The Perfect Life<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDid you always want to write a novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNo, writing a novel is something I didn\u2019t really think about until a couple of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat are some of the novels that you enjoy?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMy two favorite novels are\u00a0What Dreams May Come<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Matheson and\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Josh Bazell. I am now and always have been a fan of all of Max Allan Collin\u2019s work \u2013 especially his historical fictions\u00a0The Titanic Murders<\/em>,\u00a0Flying Blind<\/em>and\u00a0Ask Not<\/em>.\u00a0And my pal, Hart Hanson write a book called\u00a0The Driver<\/em>\u00a0which I really enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy Leighton started out as a pitch for a television series. I became frustrated with the lack of response and started writing it as a novel. After writing three chapters, I put it aside and continued with more TV work. Max Allan Collins read those three chapters and he encouraged me to write more. Max is a very generous person and he offered to help me get a book agent and a publisher. And then he said, \u201cBut what I\u2019d rather do is write it with you.\u201d Well, Max is a renowned mystery writer who has written more than 100 novels. I had written none. So I would have to be an idiot not to take him up on an offer like that. The truth is, even though I started the book without him, I probably would never have finished it if Max hadn\u2019t written it with me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nYou co-wrote\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton\u00a0with Max Allan Collins; how did that come about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA mutual friend, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), introduced Max and I at San Diego\u2019s Comicon. Max and I met in person there very briefly but hit it off and continued the friendship by phone even though Max is in Muscatine Iowa, and I am in Los Angeles. Of particular note: this is a COVID collaboration \u2013 Max and I were never in the same room for one second of the writing. It was all done on phone and Zoom calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBefore Max got involved, had you started to write the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYes, I wrote three chapters on my own, but only the Many Worlds sci-fi part. The mystery thread was not part of my original conception. That\u2019s something Max and I came up with after we started working on the book together.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow would you describe\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very strange little sci fi mystery thriller. It\u2019s a mix of police detective work and the theoretical ideas in quantum physics. The book tells the story of a small-time thief (Jimmy Leighton) who flees South Boston to escape from a Vietnamese gangster. Hiding out in Cambridge, Jimmy needs money and breaks into the house of a M.I.T. Physicist who happens to be running a quantum experiment in his basement based on the work of Princeton Physicist Hugh Everett III. Nosey little Jimmy connects the wrong outlet to the wrong cable from a stack of quantum batteries and finds himself transported to another version of his life 1000 miles away in Chicago. And that is only the beginning of his adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell about Jimmy Leighton?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy is not the sharpest tool in the shed when the book starts out but the experience of living several versions of his life is kind of a quantum school. Jimmy finally figures it out and finds a way to get what he needs to be happy. He was an orphan from South Boston who bounced around in foster homes the social service\u2019s system. Abused by at least two foster fathers, Jimmy ran away and hit the streets, becoming a homeless panhandler at the age of 12. But he had incredible street smarts and managed to survive, dodging the law and other homeless folk who preyed upon kids like him. He started robbing houses when he was 14 and became a seriously successful second story man, respected by many in the Boston crime community.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did NeoText end up publishing the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMax had the connection to NeoText because he had written a book with them before he met me. And Max made the deal for the book. I knew it would be a difficult sell because it\u2019s a cross-genre book. It\u2019s a sci-fi and it\u2019s a detective mystery thriller. A lot of publishers won\u2019t take a chance on cross-genre. They worry that their readers won\u2019t understand it. Or that they may become frightened reading the book because it does not stay within the preconceived expectations they had for it. But John Schoenfelder at Neo Text is a very open-minded man. And he\u2019s very supportive of his artists \u2013 that\u2019s what he calls us. No one in my 40 years working for television and film ever called me an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat was it like co-writing with Max Allan Collins?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI was surprised by how much Max and I have in common. I was familiar with some of his work, but the fact is, he has written so many books that, to be aware of them all, would\u2019ve been impossible. For example, I\u2019m a historical student of the Titanic disaster but Max actually wrote a book about a fictitious murder that takes place on that fateful voyage. To write a novel where you play out the action onboard that ship necessitated doing an incredible amount of research. So, Max and I were able to swap stories on that. Same thing with the Kennedy Assassination. And a lot of other things. We became fast friends during our collaboration writing this book. And there\u2019s no better way to get to know someone than working together on a book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFay Dalton created a lovely illustration for\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton;\u00a0was that her composition, or did you suggest ideas for it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s definitely her composition. We gave her some suggestions, but it was Faye who came up with the actual cover for the book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping ComicBuzz readers like this book. I think it definitely conforms to the comic book style of writing. Both Max and I think very visually, and I believe we painted word pictures for our readers that they will enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say a big thank you to Dave for taking the time to chat with us and we wish him and Max the best of luck with their novel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Dave Thomas","post_excerpt":"The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-dave-thomas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:32:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:32:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207274","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":16},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_22"};</script></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4e19fa1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-epic_archive_pagination_elementor" data-id="4e19fa1" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="epic_archive_pagination_elementor.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="jeg_navigation jeg_pagination jeg_pagenav_1 jeg_aligncenter no_pageinfo"> Page 16 of 32 <a class="page_nav prev" data-id="15" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/">Previous</a> <a class='page_number' data-id='1' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/'>1</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='15' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/'>15</a> 16 <a class='page_number' data-id='17' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/'>17</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='32' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/32/'>32</a> <a class="page_nav next" data-id="17" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/">Next</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></section> \n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-Wolf-e1fqghn\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dashboard\/episode\/e1fqghn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dashboard\/episode\/e1fqghn<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207636\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wolf3-707x1024.jpg\" alt=\"wolf3\" width=\"707\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of Wolf","post_excerpt":"George Mackay","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-wolf","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:33:52","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:33:52","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207631","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207592,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-10 16:46:35","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-10 16:46:35","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the writer, producer, director and cast members of The Feast<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207595\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast2-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\nA wealthy family has a dinner party at its home in the Welsh mountains, hosting a local businessman and farmer who hope to broker a business deal. A mysterious young woman arrives to be the family's waitress, and things begin to unravel.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207596\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDirector; Lee Haven Jones<\/span> Writer and Producer; Roger Williams<\/span> Annes Elwy - Cast member - Cadi<\/span> Nia Roberts - Cast member \u2013 Glenda<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207604\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast4-692x1024.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast4\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of The Feast","post_excerpt":"Lee Haven Jones","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-the-feast","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:44:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:44:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207592","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207575,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_content":"We are joined today by Irish filmmaker Adam William Cahill. Adam sat down with us to talk about his new film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Adam, it is so wonderful to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m an Irish filmmaker from Dublin, and the company director of Wild Stag Productions. I studied film production and earned my bachelor degree from the University of Wolverhampton. Straight out of college I decided to sink or swim as far as diving straight into the industry goes, and that\u2019s how I ended up making my first feature film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you tell us about the origins of <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nInitially it was a short film idea imagined by Luke Corcoran, the actor who would become the lead in the feature film. He wrote a short script about three flatmates in Dublin who come across a zombie in their apartment and comedic mayhem ensues. We were initially going to shoot that script, which was called Craic of the Dead (\u201ccraic\u201d being an Irish colloquialism for fun), but we ran into some problems along the way. This gave me the time to really meditate on the concept a while, and the thing that was really hooking me about the plot was that we were essentially telling a story about Irish Millennials, a very specific demographic, dealing with a problem that we haven\u2019t seen them challenged with before. I wondered what a generation engrossed in technology, surrounded by fake news, and basically more comfortable than any generation that came before it would react to such a perilous event. Luke was gracious enough to let me take the idea and go off and write something more expansive, which I did. And a hundred pages later I had written a story about a family of Millennials in the countryside town of Ferbane who hear that Dublin has been destroyed by the undead, but don\u2019t know what to believe, and don\u2019t necessarily feel responsible to do anything about it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HTG9a78M6Gk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nHow would you describe Follow the Dead?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a dark comedy about a man in his thirties, Robbie, who can\u2019t manage to find the love he\u2019s looking for in a Tinder-centric society, and only begins to realize what he\u2019s missing when his estranged wife comes back into his life. Unluckily for him, this reunion just so happens to take place right as the town is in a frenzy, divided over the mysterious news that Dublin is experiencing a blackout, and the prevailing theory is that zombies are the cause. To add insult to injury, Robbie has to take care of his wannabe-celebrity sister Liv, who\u2019s trying to use the events to boost her social media presence, and their stoner cousins Jay and Chi, who can\u2019t agree on a single thing. The result: comedy and mayhem.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the cast of Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI had the great privilege of working with some incredible actors for this film, who were honoured with a Best Ensemble Cast nomination from the Seattle Film Festival last year. The dramatic performances from Luke Corcoran, Marybeth Herron, and Cristina Ryan are so moving, and they really carry the weight of the themes surrounding sacrifice and responsibility within the film so incredibly well. I\u2019m so proud of what they brought to the story through their rawness and vulnerability. And then there\u2019s Luke Collins and Tadhg Devery as the stoner cousins who are just so insanely hilarious, in very distinct ways; Luke with his unique physicality, and Tadhg with his incredible turn-of-phrase. We\u2019ve been honoured with numerous Comedy Feature awards internationally, with Tadhg receiving a Best Supporting Actor award from the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival too. I\u2019m really indebted to them for being so impressive in that way, and I really love that the Irish sense of humour (not to mention the accents) has really translated to foreign audiences. Truth be told, we actually filmed Follow the Dead twice. The first time, without a budget, we shot about 60% of the script, but then came back to do it all again with a bigger crew and a pittance of funding later in the year. I did that because I was blown away by the performances from the cast, which really made me believe in them and in what we were creating. So yeah\u2026 That\u2019s how much faith and love I have for these incredible artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207581\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/adamwilliamcahill-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"adamwilliamcahill\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\nYou are the writer, producer and director on Follow the Dead<\/em>. That sounds like a huge amount of work on your shoulders; how did you manage all of these hats?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWell the whole process took so much longer than it should have because of the fact that I was juggling everything. We shot Follow the Dead in August 2017, and it wasn\u2019t ready for festivals until 2020. So it was a case of taking things step by step. This was also my first feature, so I was totally unaware of how mammoth the undertaking was going to be. But that helped in a way, because I wasn\u2019t concerned with how high the mountain was; I had no idea. So I just took each step as it came, learned on the fly, and thankfully it all worked out in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the writing process; what was it like for you?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWriting is one of the most arduous stages of development for me. I\u2019m a perfectionist, and I\u2019m a plotter; I need to know exactly where the story is going and all of the checkpoints along the way before I can get started. So before the script stage I have pages and pages and pages of notes, outlines, charts, and all sorts, and only when I can play the whole movie out visually in my head can I then sit down and write it. The only really improvisational aspect of the scripts I write is the dialogue, which I come up with as I\u2019m typing. Except for the jokes; 90% of them are planned ahead of time too. But I have to say that Follow the Dead<\/em> was the easiest script I\u2019ve written so far, purely because I had done so much meditating about it while we were planning the short film. So I have to thank Luke Corcoran for the inspiration for this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207582\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead1.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nHow did you go about finding the cast?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt was really organic. Luke was always going to play Robbie because I never diverged from that plan since the short film stage. I had worked with Marybeth Herron and Tadhg Devery on my final year student film Inertia<\/em>, and I knew they\u2019d be ideal for Liv and Chi respectively. From there, Tadhg introduced me to Cristina Ryan and Aidan O\u2019Sullivan when we were considering who would play the Garda\u00ed in the film, with the character of Kate also being Robbie\u2019s love interest, and they fit those characters like a glove. And then Luke recommended Luke Collins to play Jay, and Ian Anthony Lawless to play Zippy. They were both primarily theater actors at the time, but did an amazing job bringing that developed stage presence to the big screen. So as you can tell, it was very much a casting process based on relationships, which I think gave us that tight-knit familial connection on set that allowed us to work so well as a team to do what almost none of us had done before.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWas it a difficult task to find the technical crew that you needed to shoot the movie?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt wasn\u2019t difficult on the production side of things. I had seen the cinematography showreel of Stephen C. Walsh on social media somewhere, and I was incredibly impressed with his work. So I reached out to him with the pitch for the feature and he got on board very quickly after that. And we\u2019re tremendously blessed that he did. He was a one man film crew; doing all the camera work, the lighting, the rigging\u2026 He was a beast, and I really felt like I had a lieutenant with me going into battle in what was unfamiliar territory for me, but not at all for him. That was comforting to say the least. Post production was a lot more difficult a stage. I edited the film myself, so that was no problem. But getting a good sound designer and music composer was an ordeal. I was pulling my hair out looking for a sound designer who could take on the challenge; There were a lot of outdoor scenes where the recorded sound was inaudible, and we also needed a lot of effects sounds for the zombies and for the action scenes. After months of searching, I met a fellow filmmaker one evening who recommended Robin Sherry Wood to me, and after that it was smooth sailing. He did an incredible job, even down to creating bottom up sound design for entire scenes, such as the very first scene of the film where Robbie is on a date in the car. None of the audio in that scene was recorded on the day. The car engine, the dialogue, the sounds of motion, absolutely everything was put in in post by Robin, and no one seems to notice a thing when watching it. That\u2019s how good he is. And then with the music\u2026 All I\u2019ll say is\u2026 Just because you can create beautiful music doesn\u2019t mean you know how to score a movie. I went through ten music composers before I found someone who understood how to craft the music around the emotional beats within the scene. That someone is Steven McKenna of DRVN Pictures, and his work speaks for itself. I said I wanted three distinct motifs, and he nailed every one of them. Every now and then I\u2019ll listen to the love theme just for the pleasure of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207583\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead2.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"424\"><\/p>\nWhat was the biggest challenge you overcame when creating Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAside from the post production issues I mentioned, I think it was just the fear of going into the unknown. Especially for the massive cast sequences. Anyone can shoot a scene of two people talking. But shooting an action sequence in the middle of a forest where a horde of zombies are chasing your protagonists and a battle erupts\u2026 That\u2019s not an ordinary day on set. I had absolutely no idea if we\u2019d pull it off. But I knew that if we did, we\u2019d have done something amazing, we\u2019ll have grown as artists from the experience, and I trusted the people I had around me to be able to help me to get the job done. The rest is history. And because of this experience, I\u2019ll never make a movie where I don\u2019t attempt to do something that feels slightly beyond my ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nAre you happy with how the movie turned out?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m blown away by it. Watching the film and seeing what we accomplished, (which I believe is a cinema-quality, funny, emotional, Irish genre film,) never fails to make me feel emotional. And add to that the successful and ongoing festival run, in which we\u2019ve currently amassed 14 wins and 4 nominations, it\u2019s actually insane to think of where we started from and where we\u2019re at with it today. It\u2019s unbelievable.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207584\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead3.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead3\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nWhat has the feedback been like for Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe frustration for us at the moment is that, because of Covid, all of the festivals have been virtual so far, having to move to a digital format until things get back to normal. So although we\u2019ve won awards at practically every festival we\u2019ve screened at, we\u2019ve never seen an audience's reaction in the theater. So that\u2019s been tough, and we\u2019ve no idea how to gauge each individual aspect of the film as a result. We just know it\u2019s been extremely positive feedback on the whole. But we\u2019re looking forward to some live festivals coming up in the next few months, so\u2026 That\u2019s going to be a whole new experience for us. Excited isn\u2019t the word.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould we see more Follow the Dead<\/em> movies in the future?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe sequel is already written. And I sat down with the cast members in November for a script reading and we were falling around laughing. So yeah, we\u2019re hoping to get that one off the ground as soon as we can. And in my head the story is a trilogy. So let\u2019s see how far we get with it. But I love these characters so much; as much as I love working with the actors, so\u2026 I\u2019m totally committed to that journey if we can make it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nIf any of our readers wanted to get their eyes on Follow the Dead<\/em>, how can they do that?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe best thing to do is to follow us on our social media pages. We\u2019re @followthedeadmovie on Facebook and Instagram. (You can also check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">followthedead.com<\/a> if you want a really<\/em> deep dive into the making of the film including a Behind the Scenes documentary.) We\u2019re always posting about what\u2019s happening with the film regarding festivals, news, merchandise, stuff like that. But if you can\u2019t make it to a festival, there\u2019ll be news very soon about how you can catch the film online, exclusively on a brand new and exciting streaming service which will be launching very soon. So keep your eyes peeled for that one.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wz3JRdmLBsk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIf you\u2019ve made it this far into the interview, I sincerely from the bottom of my heart thank you for your interest. I really hope Follow the Dead tickles your fancy if you haven\u2019t yet seen it, and I hope you can check it out very soon. If you want to know what else I\u2019m doing outside of the realm of zombie flicks, my company is Wild Stag Productions. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using @wildstagmedia, or check out the official website at <a href=\"http:\/\/wildstagpoductions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildstagpoductions.com<\/a>. We\u2019re a media company that specializes in making Irish genre films. I basically want to make Irish versions of all my favourite genres, including a Western which I\u2019m writing at the moment. So yeah\u2026 thank you all for your time, and I hope you join us for the next part of our journey!<\/span><\/p>\nA big thank you to Adam for sitting and chatting with us; we wish him the best of luck with his film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.followthedead.com<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a><\/p>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Adam William Cahill","post_excerpt":"Follow the Dead","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-adam-william-cahill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:51:19","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:51:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207575","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207564,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the producers and directors of\u00a0<\/span>Young Plato, a\u00a0<\/span><\/em>documentary set in post-conflict Belfast.<\/span><\/p>\nAn observational documentary set in post-conflict Belfast\u2019s Ardoyne, where a marginalized, working-class community has for generations been plagued by poverty, drugs and guns. This film charts the dream of Headmaster Kevin McArevey and his dedicated visionary team, illustrating how critical thinking and pastoral care can empower and encourage children to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of their own community. We see how philosophy can encourage them to question the mythologies of war and of violence, and challenge the narratives of their community.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207571\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDavid Rane - Producer<\/span><\/p>\nNeasa Ni Chianain - Director<\/span><\/p>\nDeclan McGrath -<\/span> Co-Producer\/Director\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nKevin McArevey - Principal in the school<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207572\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato2-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato2\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207569\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato4.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/p>","post_title":"Young Plato Interviews","post_excerpt":"David Rane","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"young-plato-interviews","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:53:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:53:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207514,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by the writer and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. The very talented Mr Cadwell has worked on numerous comics. Some of the comics he has worked on include: Nelson<\/em>, Lovecraft Anthology 2<\/em>, Sold State Tank Girl<\/em>, Samuari Jack<\/em>, Dangeritis<\/em>, Helena Crash<\/em> and Mr. Higgins Comes Home<\/em>.<\/span>\n\nHi Warwick, happy new year to you. It's a pleasure to have you here with us. <\/span><\/strong>As some of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nHello, and Happy New Year! <\/em>Falconspeare is my third book with Dark Horse comics and Mike Mignola, but before then came<\/em> Samurai Jack, Helena Crash, The Marionette Unit, Dangeritis, and Tank Girl. But aside from comics I have worked for publishers and in the animation industry. I\u2019m just a very enthusiastic drawer\/drawist.<\/em><\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the origins of Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nFalconspeare is the third book in a sort of series (at this stage they can still be read in any order) following the adventures of a group of vampire hunters of old. In this book we discover they shared their formative years with a fourth member,<\/em> James Falconspeare, and here we discover what has happened to him since the group last met many years before.<\/em><\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207518\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp1-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp1\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nHow would you describe the Falconspeare<\/em> graphic novel?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nIt\u2019s a vampire adventure of sorts. These books revel in the classic horror worlds <\/span>of Universal Studios and Hammer Horror, but have their own flavor too. They\u2019re <\/span><\/em>also inspired by Mike Mignola, who wrote the first book,<\/em> Mr. Higgins Comes Home. I <\/em><\/span>have tried to maintain a level of humor in there, too. But this is the darkest book of the three, I think.<\/span><\/em>\n\nFor our readers who are not familiar with Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan. What can you tell us about these characters?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThese are classic vampire adventurers, like Van Helsing or Professor Abronsius. <\/span>Professor Meinhardt is an academic expert in the supernatural, and Mr. Knox is a <\/span>compassionate and careful force for good. Ms. Mary Van Sloan is a spirited fighting <\/span>force. They\u2019re all enthusiastic and brave, but also pretty lucky in a world where the <\/span>forces of evil command a strong upper hand. And in this book we find that James <\/span>Falconspeare is the honorable, law-abiding champion of the group.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207519\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp2-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp2\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhen you were creating the graphic novel, did you write a full script?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI did, eventually. I\u2019m an artist mainly, and very interested in narrative. My process for the last two books was to firstly work out the story in sketches and thumbnails to <\/span>determine what I wanted to do. Then I turned that into a script, which I then redrew as roughs. The two sets of roughs either side of the script aren\u2019t easy to compare., <\/span>however, as the first is spread over many sketchbooks in many sizes and qualities over the course of a few years.<\/span><\/em>\n\nYou are the writer and artist on Falconspeare<\/em>; what do you enjoy being more a writer or an artist?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAn artist I think, but that\u2019s mainly because I\u2019m more comfortable with that aspect. I love getting to grips with writing, and I really enjoy working with word and images to create stories. I like working with writers very much, but I\u2019m really enjoying being in charge of both the script and art to model the stories.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207520\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp3-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nDo you have a favourite character from Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAh! That\u2019s tricky, because I like them all. The main three we\u2019ve already met in the other books get a chance to develop or reaffirm their characters, which is nice. But getting to introduce new characters is great, and there\u2019s plenty in this. There\u2019s a brief appearance from Meinhardt, Knox, and Sloan\u2019s very grumpy butler (Mr. Tuphold). He\u2019s only in a<\/span>couple of panels, but he makes me laugh, and I think he could be a great character in future. Such an angry old character.<\/span><\/em>\n\nCould we see more of Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan in the future?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI certainly hope so, though I\u2019ve got away with a lot so far. Drawing these books is <\/span>amazing fun, and every page throws up more ideas for more stories to tell. So, I hope we get to follow their crazy adventures further.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207521\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp4-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp4\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhat are you currently reading?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nMy reading goes all over the place, often a long way behind. And in that spirit, \u201cAcheron\u201d by Mike Mignola at Dark Horse was ace! Steeple by John Allison, too. I love that series. Kyle Starks and Chris Schweitzer\u2019s<\/em> 6 Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton (Image) was also awesome! Other than that, I\u2019m mainly rereading<\/em> The Tomb Of Dracula or<\/em> Dracula Lives.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nTry out Falconspeare? Follow me for art if they\u2019re keen on Instagram @wocco or <\/em><\/span>on Twitter @warwickjc.<\/em> But mainly I\u2019d encourage ComicBuzz readers to get drawing\/ reading or making. Anything. It\u2019s awesome fun.<\/em><\/span>\n\nA big thank you to Warwick Johnson-Cadwell for taking the time to chat with us. We would like to wish him and his team the best of luck with Falconspeare.<\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Warwick Johnson-Cadwell","post_excerpt":"Falconspeare","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-warwick-johnson-cadwell","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:04:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:04:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207514","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207445,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_content":"With the second issue of the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series out next week from Dark Horse Comics, we are so delighted to be joined by the co-writer of the comic, Rob Williams. Rob Williams has written numerous titles. Some of the titles he has worked on include\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>, Suicide Squad<\/em>,\u00a0Trinity<\/em>,\u00a0Action Comics<\/em>,\u00a0Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>,\u00a0Judge Dredd<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Rob, happy new year to you; it's great to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\nWe have been fans of your work ever since we read\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nThanks! Good memories!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did you get involved with the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019d just done a creepy gangsters-haunted-by-ghosts creator-owned book called Old Haunts\u00a0<\/em>via AWA Studios with Laurence Campbell. Laurence drew\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0for Mike Mignola and Dark Horse for a number of years, and had been talking to Mike and the guys about doing a Gall Dennar barbarian story. He asked if I\u2019d be interested in coming on to write the book, and I think the Hellboy team liked\u00a0Old Haunts<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat made you want to be a part of the Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0<\/em>miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWorking with Laurence is always a treat. He\u2019s brilliant, and one of my best friends. Working with Mike Mignola in the Hellboy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0world? Who wouldn\u2019t want to do that? I\u2019ve enjoyed those comics for the past couple of decades. It\u2019s a treat to be involved in that universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207448\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_1-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_1\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nHow would you describe the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe sword is an important weapon in the end times of the Hellboy\/B.P.R.D. story. It\u2019s a mythical blade much like Excalibur. Our series spans thousands of years and shows you four very different heroes who held the sword at various points before passing it on, allowing us to tell very Hellboy<\/em>-world tales in a Robert E. Howard-like barbarian landscape. Additionally we'll see stories set in World War I, World War II and finally the electric blues scene of Chicago in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series takes place in the world of\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>;\u00a0is the series new reader-friendly?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: We hope so. We\u2019ve certainly tried to make that the case. We had no interest in a big exposition-fest or historical tract. If you know the major points on the\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>\u00a0map, you\u2019ll get a kick out of the references. But really we have four heroes here, three of whom are brand new, and we want to send them on a journey and care about what happens to them. In introducing three new players who don\u2019t know the key facts of this world, readers are really in the same position as them, fighting against an evil they don\u2019t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207449\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_2-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_2\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nWhat is it like writing with Mike Mignola?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA treat, as I said. I\u2019ve been a fan for years. It\u2019s intimidating too, because Mike\u2019s one of the best writers we\u2019ve had in comics, and the level of people he collaborates with is extraordinarily high. But he was very welcoming and a great sounding board for Laurence and me. Mike had a plot in mind for Gall Dennar in issue #1, which we built out from. Then it was a case of a few Zoom calls discussing the world, and Mike leading us to a few places we should probably go. It was a really enjoyable experience.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe rest of the team for\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0consists of Laurence Campbell, Quinton Winter, Clem Robins and Dave Stewart. Were they already a part of the team when you joined the series?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nLaurence was onboard before me, yes. And then I think Laurence suggested colorist Quinton Winter, who lives near him. They know each other. Quinton coloured Unfollow<\/em>, a book of mine from Vertigo a few years ago, which Clem Robins also lettered. Small world. Dave Stewart had coloured Laurence's work on his B.P.R.D.<\/em> run, so he colored our covers.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhen you saw the art from Laurence Campbell and Quinton Winter, what did you think?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: I\u2019m very aware of what Laurence can do, having worked with him so often. He\u2019s a master of mood on the page, a brilliant storyteller. We wanted issue #1 to be an epic Terrence Malick-like quest across this incredible landscape from thousands of years ago, with evil priests, woolly mammoths, immense mountain ranges, and the odd pterodactyl. Laurence and Quinton have brought all that to such vivid life here.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207450\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_3-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_3\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nDo you have a favourite scene from the first issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: Gall Dennar, having been alone on his quest for years and sitting by a fire in the mountains, tripping on some barbarian concoction, calls out to his love from thousands of years in the future and a giant wolf spirit comes to talk to him. Laurence and Quinton did a phenomenal job there. It really feels magical.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell us about the second issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWe move the action through the Victorian London of Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder<\/em>\u00a0to the first ever zeppelin attacks on London, and then to Belgium in the First World War. A German agent called Graf Ling de Gotha is given a mission to find a cult that is undertaking strange ceremonies nearby, trying to summon something unnatural into the world\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207453\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_4-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_4\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can follow my work on Twitter @Robwilliams71 on Instagram on @Robwilliams1971 and on my website<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0Thanks!<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say thank you to Rob for his time and wish him and the team the best of luck with their series.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Rob Williams","post_excerpt":"\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-rob-williams","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:09:48","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:09:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207445","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207361,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_content":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Paula Wiseman chatted with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh about some of his upcoming movie and TV projects, and also about some of his amazing past work, including roles in 'Scorpion', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and 'Transformers - Age of Extinction<\/span>'.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Paula-Wiseman-chats-with-LA-based-Irish-actor--Glenn-Keogh-e1c0li4\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nIrish American actor\u00a0Glenn Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0appears on television twice the same week emerging December 3rd on the CBS action series\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the HBO hit comedy\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on December 5th. Keogh follows that up by heading to the big screen in the Marvel franchise film,\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em><\/strong>, releasing in theaters on December 17th.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the upcoming \u201cA Fire in the Ashes\u201d episode of\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em>, Keogh steps into the action as Parkes, when Magnum (Jay Hernandez) starts following Higgins (Perdita Weeks), who has been secretly assigned to infiltrate a group threatening to take down MI-6.<\/span><\/p>\r\nSwitching gears and going for laughs, Keogh enters into the acclaimed Larry David comedy series,\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em>, during the episode \u201cIrma Kostroski.\u201d The semi-improvised storyline is being kept under wraps, but revolves around Larry\u2019s latest predicament at work.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAudiences can also catch Keogh in theaters everywhere as part of the latest adventure facing Marvel\u2019s web-spinning superhero in\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em>. Directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man, whose identity now revealed, forces Peter into asking Doctor Strange for help.<\/span><\/p>\r\nKeogh is thrilled to have not one, not two, but three roles hitting screens in December, adding \u201cI was truly blessed to get to work my acting chops this year across these roles, in Honolulu, Atlanta and Los Angeles. All very different characters and a ton of fun to get to play in the Marvel, Curb and Magnum worlds! Excited to see them play out on screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFans will recall Keogh from his first Marvel adventure as the mischievous alien \u2018TROK\u2019 from\u00a0<\/em>Season 6 of ABC\u2019s beloved series,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. He also gained attention for starring alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Atkins in the sci-fi indie feature film,\u00a0Encounter,\u00a0<\/em>and for appearing in Michael Bay\u2019s blockbuster action film,\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Keogh proved a standout as King Fergus on ABC\u2019s fairytale fantasy drama,\u00a0Once Upon a\u00a0<\/em>Time, and recurring as Sean O\u2019Brien, father of Walter (Elyes Gabel), on the CBS drama,\u00a0Scorpion<\/em>. Keogh has worked all over the world in film and television projects including prominent roles in\u00a0Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan, The O.A., Criminal Minds, NCIS, Castle, Undercovers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0New Girl.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Paula Wiseman chats with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh","post_excerpt":"LA based Irish actor","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"paula-wiseman-chats-with-la-based-irish-actor-glenn-keogh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:31:21","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:31:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207361","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207274,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_content":"With the release of his first novel,\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em> we are delighted to be joined by the multi-talented Dave Thomas. Dave is not only an actor but a comedian, writer, producer and director. We got a chance to sit down and chat with Dave bout his novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nSome of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can find out who I am by looking at my website<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davethomas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0davethomas.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0But here is a short rundown of some of the things I have done, pulled from my biography:<\/span><\/p>\nThough new to writing books, I have done every type of television in every capacity, from sketch comedy and sitcoms to reality and game shows, animation and one hour drama. I started his career in comedy, as a writer\/performer for the Emmy Award-winning NBC sketch comedy show\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. I co-wrote the movie\u00a0Spies Like Us<\/em>\u00a0with Dan Aykroyd and directed and co-wrote the MGM cult classic\u00a0Strange Brew\u00a0<\/em>with Rick Moranis. I wrote and performed on a Grammy Award nominated album for Polygram with Rick. I directed\u00a0The Experts<\/em>\u00a0starring John Travolta for Paramount. I was executive produced and starred in my own comedy series for CBS,\u00a0the Dave Thomas Show<\/em>. From 1993 to 1998, i wrote for and co-starred in 115 episodes of the ABC sitcom\u00a0Grace Under Fire<\/em>. While working on that show I created a game show called\u00a0Family Challenge<\/em>\u00a0and produced 144 episodes for the Family Channel. My company Maple Palm Productions produced movies for Fox and HBO \u2013 most notably\u00a0Ambushed\u00a0<\/em>(Courtney Vance, Virginia Masden, William Forsythe and Robert Patrick). I co-created and executive produced\u00a0America\u2019s Funniest People\u00a0<\/em>(ABC) with Vin DiBona and I was executive producer of\u00a0the<\/em> Dennis Miller Show<\/em>\u00a0for Tribune. In 2001, I founded an animation company called Animax Entertainment and produced animation series for ABC (Slacker Cats<\/em>), ESPN (Off Mikes<\/em>), and MTV (Popzilla and Big Box<\/em>) and Global television in Canada (Bob and Doug<\/em>). I won my second Emmy Award for Animax\u2019s ESPN show\u00a0\u201cOff Mikes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in 2006. Lured into drama writing by his pal, Hart Hanson, Dave wrote a spec script for\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Fox) that was produced in 2008 and then Hart asked Dave to join the writing staff of\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0for more than 50 episodes as a Consulting Producer. After three years with Bones, I was asked to join the writing staff of NBC\u2019s the\u00a0Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0also as a consulting producer. This year, along with the cast of SCTV, I produced a reunion show called\u00a0An Afternoon with SCTV<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix directed by Martin Scorcese. Currently, I am writing his second book entitled\u00a0The Perfect Life<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDid you always want to write a novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNo, writing a novel is something I didn\u2019t really think about until a couple of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat are some of the novels that you enjoy?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMy two favorite novels are\u00a0What Dreams May Come<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Matheson and\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Josh Bazell. I am now and always have been a fan of all of Max Allan Collin\u2019s work \u2013 especially his historical fictions\u00a0The Titanic Murders<\/em>,\u00a0Flying Blind<\/em>and\u00a0Ask Not<\/em>.\u00a0And my pal, Hart Hanson write a book called\u00a0The Driver<\/em>\u00a0which I really enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy Leighton started out as a pitch for a television series. I became frustrated with the lack of response and started writing it as a novel. After writing three chapters, I put it aside and continued with more TV work. Max Allan Collins read those three chapters and he encouraged me to write more. Max is a very generous person and he offered to help me get a book agent and a publisher. And then he said, \u201cBut what I\u2019d rather do is write it with you.\u201d Well, Max is a renowned mystery writer who has written more than 100 novels. I had written none. So I would have to be an idiot not to take him up on an offer like that. The truth is, even though I started the book without him, I probably would never have finished it if Max hadn\u2019t written it with me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nYou co-wrote\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton\u00a0with Max Allan Collins; how did that come about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA mutual friend, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), introduced Max and I at San Diego\u2019s Comicon. Max and I met in person there very briefly but hit it off and continued the friendship by phone even though Max is in Muscatine Iowa, and I am in Los Angeles. Of particular note: this is a COVID collaboration \u2013 Max and I were never in the same room for one second of the writing. It was all done on phone and Zoom calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBefore Max got involved, had you started to write the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYes, I wrote three chapters on my own, but only the Many Worlds sci-fi part. The mystery thread was not part of my original conception. That\u2019s something Max and I came up with after we started working on the book together.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow would you describe\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very strange little sci fi mystery thriller. It\u2019s a mix of police detective work and the theoretical ideas in quantum physics. The book tells the story of a small-time thief (Jimmy Leighton) who flees South Boston to escape from a Vietnamese gangster. Hiding out in Cambridge, Jimmy needs money and breaks into the house of a M.I.T. Physicist who happens to be running a quantum experiment in his basement based on the work of Princeton Physicist Hugh Everett III. Nosey little Jimmy connects the wrong outlet to the wrong cable from a stack of quantum batteries and finds himself transported to another version of his life 1000 miles away in Chicago. And that is only the beginning of his adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell about Jimmy Leighton?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy is not the sharpest tool in the shed when the book starts out but the experience of living several versions of his life is kind of a quantum school. Jimmy finally figures it out and finds a way to get what he needs to be happy. He was an orphan from South Boston who bounced around in foster homes the social service\u2019s system. Abused by at least two foster fathers, Jimmy ran away and hit the streets, becoming a homeless panhandler at the age of 12. But he had incredible street smarts and managed to survive, dodging the law and other homeless folk who preyed upon kids like him. He started robbing houses when he was 14 and became a seriously successful second story man, respected by many in the Boston crime community.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did NeoText end up publishing the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMax had the connection to NeoText because he had written a book with them before he met me. And Max made the deal for the book. I knew it would be a difficult sell because it\u2019s a cross-genre book. It\u2019s a sci-fi and it\u2019s a detective mystery thriller. A lot of publishers won\u2019t take a chance on cross-genre. They worry that their readers won\u2019t understand it. Or that they may become frightened reading the book because it does not stay within the preconceived expectations they had for it. But John Schoenfelder at Neo Text is a very open-minded man. And he\u2019s very supportive of his artists \u2013 that\u2019s what he calls us. No one in my 40 years working for television and film ever called me an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat was it like co-writing with Max Allan Collins?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI was surprised by how much Max and I have in common. I was familiar with some of his work, but the fact is, he has written so many books that, to be aware of them all, would\u2019ve been impossible. For example, I\u2019m a historical student of the Titanic disaster but Max actually wrote a book about a fictitious murder that takes place on that fateful voyage. To write a novel where you play out the action onboard that ship necessitated doing an incredible amount of research. So, Max and I were able to swap stories on that. Same thing with the Kennedy Assassination. And a lot of other things. We became fast friends during our collaboration writing this book. And there\u2019s no better way to get to know someone than working together on a book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFay Dalton created a lovely illustration for\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton;\u00a0was that her composition, or did you suggest ideas for it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s definitely her composition. We gave her some suggestions, but it was Faye who came up with the actual cover for the book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping ComicBuzz readers like this book. I think it definitely conforms to the comic book style of writing. Both Max and I think very visually, and I believe we painted word pictures for our readers that they will enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say a big thank you to Dave for taking the time to chat with us and we wish him and Max the best of luck with their novel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Dave Thomas","post_excerpt":"The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-dave-thomas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:32:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:32:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207274","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":16},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_22"};</script></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4e19fa1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-epic_archive_pagination_elementor" data-id="4e19fa1" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="epic_archive_pagination_elementor.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="jeg_navigation jeg_pagination jeg_pagenav_1 jeg_aligncenter no_pageinfo"> Page 16 of 32 <a class="page_nav prev" data-id="15" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/">Previous</a> <a class='page_number' data-id='1' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/'>1</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='15' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/'>15</a> 16 <a class='page_number' data-id='17' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/'>17</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='32' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/32/'>32</a> <a class="page_nav next" data-id="17" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/">Next</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></section> \r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0<\/a><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207657\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/myoldschool-631x1024.jpg\" alt=\"myoldschool\" width=\"631\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\r\nMy Old School<\/b><\/i> is a documentary directed by Jono McLeod on the subject of the Brandon Lee scandal.<\/span><\/p>","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish Gala screening of My Old School","post_excerpt":"Alan Cumming","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-gala-screening-of-my-old-school","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:26:45","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:26:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207656","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207638,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-03-17 14:06:06","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-17 14:06:06","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by Josh O'Neill today. Josh is publisher and co-founder of Beehive Books. As Beehive Books have launched a Kickstarter this week for the GratNin<\/em> graphic novel by Ronald Wimberly, we got a chance to sit down and chat with the editor of the graphic novel.<\/span>\n\nHi Josh, it's a pleasure to have you here with us.<\/span><\/strong>\n\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers and tell us about Beehive Books? Hello! I'm the publisher and co-founder of Beehive, a small-press graphic arts outfit based out of Philadelphia. We sometimes describe our project as an exercise in the possible -- we want to test the boundaries of what a book can be, and what kind of creative work we can produce. With inventive formats, visionary art and writing, and an utterly obsessive approach to design, we aim to build paper worlds. We have titles from Brecht Evens, Mike Mignola, Yuko Shimizu, Jim Woodring, Paul Pope, Bill Sienkiewicz, Ronald Wimberly, Rebekka Dunlap, Kent Williams and more. GratNin is our fourth project with Ronald.<\/span>\n\nHow did this collaboration between Ronald Wimberly and Beehive Books come about? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nI've worked with Ron several times as a contributor to books for my previous publishing venture, Locust Moon Press. So when Ma\u00eblle Doliveux and I launched Beehive in 2016, I knew Ron personally, and admired his work to no end. When Ma\u00eblle and I began approaching authors, our basic pitch was: what's a project that you think no publisher would take on? Ron, who for my money is one of the true visionary working artists of the 21st century, was literally the first person we approached. The answer then was LAAB Magazine, an experimental broadsheet art newspaper powered by the radical imagination -- we've since released three annual issues of LAAB. Now it's GratNin, this crazy accordion-folded story scroll, the next step of our ongoing work together (and part of the sort of nascent LAAB imprint). Ron has become more than an author, to us -- he's a friend and a partner, and his work is part of the DNA of Beehive.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207641\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin2.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin2\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\n\nWhen and how did you discover GratNin<\/em>? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nI just read it as a passionate follower of Ron's work. I'll read anything and everything he puts out. When I finally sat down to read the whole thing through several years ago, I just fell in -- it's full of such humor, excitement, suspense, humanity, love for its source material, love for its characters. And it has this wonderful feeling of being a huge world to roam around in. We follow the characters we follow, but there's this feeling that more intrigue is down every alleyway. It's just an outstanding comic and we're so excited to be publishing it. <\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the Kickstarter for the GratNin <\/em>graphic novel? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nGratNin presented an exciting and singular problem -- how to present this pageless digital comic in a print format.  As per our usual ideological commitments in Beehive, we came up with the least practical, most exciting solution -- to present these remarkable stories on a series of unbroken accordion-folded scrolls, turning the downward-swiping digital read into a thrillingly physical experience. You track down four hundred feet of narrow page-space, in a format that brings to mind skyscrapers, alleyways, subway tunnels -- all the long verticals iconically representing this fantastical vision of New York. And we filled the box with ephemera from this alternate reality -- metrocards and maps and furoshikis and trading cards, making up a whole enveloping experience, skulking around New York with then Namba clan.<\/span>\n\nWhat have been some of the hurdles that you have had to overcome to get the project up to this point?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThe biggest one was just figuring out how to present this story in a readable way. It's this pageless comic that goes down and down and down. How do you do it in print? That was the problem that we faced. It's the kind of problem that our team, and especially LAAB and GratNin designer Chloe Scheffe, find most delicious. I think it's been solved beautifully here.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207642\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin3.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin3\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\n\nWe understand that the graphic novel will be an accordion style with folded pages; was this feature something that you wanted to do right from the beginning? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nNo -- we started with the problem. We didn't know the best solution. We thought about doing it as a scroll, as a giant folding map, as a long vertical book with a spine at the top.  The accordion seemed the most elegant solution, especially for something so long -- we're talking about 600 pages, printed on three pieces of paper. It's the best at replicating and reinventing that feeling of falling down into this crazy thrilling world that you get from reading GratNin digitally.<\/span>\n\nBeehive Books is releasing the GratNin<\/em> graphic novel as a box set; can you tell us about the box set? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nWe took the next step, when designing GratNin as a fully formed reading experience -- we created a little miniature space to explore. We filled the box with ephemera from this alternate reality -- metrocards and maps and furoshikis and trading cards, making up a whole enveloping experience. A world for you to crawl into a skulk around. We didn\u2019t want to just present a print version of Ron\u2019s wonderful web comic \u2013 we wanted to work with him to reinvent it, and to build out his world.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207644\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin5.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin5\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\n\nAs you are crowdfunding the graphic novel and dealing directly with consumers, does that make the project more special for you?<\/strong> <\/span>\n\nWell, we crowdfund most of our projects, so it's not any different from what we usually do. But yes -- crowdfunding does mean a much deeper-than-average engagement with your audience, and we conceive of Beehive as something other than a producer of goods with a base of customers. We see our readership as a vital community, the backbone of this whole operation. They're keeping the garden cared for and the soil tilled, so we can grow the things we grow. Our practice of building books out of an engaged community of readers makes all of our projects feel a bit more special to me.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207643\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin4.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin4\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\n\nDo you have a favourite Kickstarter reward? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nBeyond the comic itself, I really love the printed cotton-cloth furoshiki wrap! I know I'll get a lot of use out of that... just a beautiful and useful object, which is all we ever really aim to make.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nBe kind to yourself. And buy GratNin! (These two go together quite nicely.)<\/span>\n\nWe would like to say thank you to Josh for chatting to us about <\/span>GratNin. <\/em><\/span>We would like to wish the whole team of GratNin<\/em> the best of luck.<\/span>\n\nFeel free to check out the<\/span><\/strong> campaign<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/beehivebooks\/gratnin?ref=6h1h34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> GranNin at<\/a><\/span><\/span><a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\"> Kickstater<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Josh O'Neill","post_excerpt":"GratNin\u00a0graphic novel","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-josh-oneill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:32:04","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:32:04","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207638","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207631,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-16 18:10:08","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-16 18:10:08","post_content":"Our very own Paula Wiseman is still covering what\u2019s going on at Diff. This time she got a chance to interview the director and cast members of Wolf.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207633\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wolf2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"wolf2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nNatalie Biancheri - Director<\/span> George Mackay - Jacob<\/span> Fionn O'Shea - Rufus<\/span> Lola Petticrew - Judith<\/span><\/p>\nBelieving he's a wolf trapped in a man's body, Jacob eats, sleeps and lives like one -- much to the shock of his family. When he's sent to a clinic, Jacob and his animal-bound peers are forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of curative therapies. However, once he meets the mysterious Wildcat,\u00a0their friendship blossoms into an undeniable infatuation, and Jacob must decide whether to renounce his true self for love.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-Wolf-e1fqghn\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dashboard\/episode\/e1fqghn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dashboard\/episode\/e1fqghn<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207636\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wolf3-707x1024.jpg\" alt=\"wolf3\" width=\"707\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of Wolf","post_excerpt":"George Mackay","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-wolf","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:33:52","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:33:52","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207631","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207592,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-10 16:46:35","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-10 16:46:35","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the writer, producer, director and cast members of The Feast<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207595\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast2-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\nA wealthy family has a dinner party at its home in the Welsh mountains, hosting a local businessman and farmer who hope to broker a business deal. A mysterious young woman arrives to be the family's waitress, and things begin to unravel.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207596\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDirector; Lee Haven Jones<\/span> Writer and Producer; Roger Williams<\/span> Annes Elwy - Cast member - Cadi<\/span> Nia Roberts - Cast member \u2013 Glenda<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207604\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast4-692x1024.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast4\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of The Feast","post_excerpt":"Lee Haven Jones","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-the-feast","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:44:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:44:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207592","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207575,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_content":"We are joined today by Irish filmmaker Adam William Cahill. Adam sat down with us to talk about his new film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Adam, it is so wonderful to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m an Irish filmmaker from Dublin, and the company director of Wild Stag Productions. I studied film production and earned my bachelor degree from the University of Wolverhampton. Straight out of college I decided to sink or swim as far as diving straight into the industry goes, and that\u2019s how I ended up making my first feature film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you tell us about the origins of <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nInitially it was a short film idea imagined by Luke Corcoran, the actor who would become the lead in the feature film. He wrote a short script about three flatmates in Dublin who come across a zombie in their apartment and comedic mayhem ensues. We were initially going to shoot that script, which was called Craic of the Dead (\u201ccraic\u201d being an Irish colloquialism for fun), but we ran into some problems along the way. This gave me the time to really meditate on the concept a while, and the thing that was really hooking me about the plot was that we were essentially telling a story about Irish Millennials, a very specific demographic, dealing with a problem that we haven\u2019t seen them challenged with before. I wondered what a generation engrossed in technology, surrounded by fake news, and basically more comfortable than any generation that came before it would react to such a perilous event. Luke was gracious enough to let me take the idea and go off and write something more expansive, which I did. And a hundred pages later I had written a story about a family of Millennials in the countryside town of Ferbane who hear that Dublin has been destroyed by the undead, but don\u2019t know what to believe, and don\u2019t necessarily feel responsible to do anything about it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HTG9a78M6Gk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nHow would you describe Follow the Dead?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a dark comedy about a man in his thirties, Robbie, who can\u2019t manage to find the love he\u2019s looking for in a Tinder-centric society, and only begins to realize what he\u2019s missing when his estranged wife comes back into his life. Unluckily for him, this reunion just so happens to take place right as the town is in a frenzy, divided over the mysterious news that Dublin is experiencing a blackout, and the prevailing theory is that zombies are the cause. To add insult to injury, Robbie has to take care of his wannabe-celebrity sister Liv, who\u2019s trying to use the events to boost her social media presence, and their stoner cousins Jay and Chi, who can\u2019t agree on a single thing. The result: comedy and mayhem.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the cast of Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI had the great privilege of working with some incredible actors for this film, who were honoured with a Best Ensemble Cast nomination from the Seattle Film Festival last year. The dramatic performances from Luke Corcoran, Marybeth Herron, and Cristina Ryan are so moving, and they really carry the weight of the themes surrounding sacrifice and responsibility within the film so incredibly well. I\u2019m so proud of what they brought to the story through their rawness and vulnerability. And then there\u2019s Luke Collins and Tadhg Devery as the stoner cousins who are just so insanely hilarious, in very distinct ways; Luke with his unique physicality, and Tadhg with his incredible turn-of-phrase. We\u2019ve been honoured with numerous Comedy Feature awards internationally, with Tadhg receiving a Best Supporting Actor award from the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival too. I\u2019m really indebted to them for being so impressive in that way, and I really love that the Irish sense of humour (not to mention the accents) has really translated to foreign audiences. Truth be told, we actually filmed Follow the Dead twice. The first time, without a budget, we shot about 60% of the script, but then came back to do it all again with a bigger crew and a pittance of funding later in the year. I did that because I was blown away by the performances from the cast, which really made me believe in them and in what we were creating. So yeah\u2026 That\u2019s how much faith and love I have for these incredible artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207581\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/adamwilliamcahill-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"adamwilliamcahill\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\nYou are the writer, producer and director on Follow the Dead<\/em>. That sounds like a huge amount of work on your shoulders; how did you manage all of these hats?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWell the whole process took so much longer than it should have because of the fact that I was juggling everything. We shot Follow the Dead in August 2017, and it wasn\u2019t ready for festivals until 2020. So it was a case of taking things step by step. This was also my first feature, so I was totally unaware of how mammoth the undertaking was going to be. But that helped in a way, because I wasn\u2019t concerned with how high the mountain was; I had no idea. So I just took each step as it came, learned on the fly, and thankfully it all worked out in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the writing process; what was it like for you?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWriting is one of the most arduous stages of development for me. I\u2019m a perfectionist, and I\u2019m a plotter; I need to know exactly where the story is going and all of the checkpoints along the way before I can get started. So before the script stage I have pages and pages and pages of notes, outlines, charts, and all sorts, and only when I can play the whole movie out visually in my head can I then sit down and write it. The only really improvisational aspect of the scripts I write is the dialogue, which I come up with as I\u2019m typing. Except for the jokes; 90% of them are planned ahead of time too. But I have to say that Follow the Dead<\/em> was the easiest script I\u2019ve written so far, purely because I had done so much meditating about it while we were planning the short film. So I have to thank Luke Corcoran for the inspiration for this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207582\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead1.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nHow did you go about finding the cast?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt was really organic. Luke was always going to play Robbie because I never diverged from that plan since the short film stage. I had worked with Marybeth Herron and Tadhg Devery on my final year student film Inertia<\/em>, and I knew they\u2019d be ideal for Liv and Chi respectively. From there, Tadhg introduced me to Cristina Ryan and Aidan O\u2019Sullivan when we were considering who would play the Garda\u00ed in the film, with the character of Kate also being Robbie\u2019s love interest, and they fit those characters like a glove. And then Luke recommended Luke Collins to play Jay, and Ian Anthony Lawless to play Zippy. They were both primarily theater actors at the time, but did an amazing job bringing that developed stage presence to the big screen. So as you can tell, it was very much a casting process based on relationships, which I think gave us that tight-knit familial connection on set that allowed us to work so well as a team to do what almost none of us had done before.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWas it a difficult task to find the technical crew that you needed to shoot the movie?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt wasn\u2019t difficult on the production side of things. I had seen the cinematography showreel of Stephen C. Walsh on social media somewhere, and I was incredibly impressed with his work. So I reached out to him with the pitch for the feature and he got on board very quickly after that. And we\u2019re tremendously blessed that he did. He was a one man film crew; doing all the camera work, the lighting, the rigging\u2026 He was a beast, and I really felt like I had a lieutenant with me going into battle in what was unfamiliar territory for me, but not at all for him. That was comforting to say the least. Post production was a lot more difficult a stage. I edited the film myself, so that was no problem. But getting a good sound designer and music composer was an ordeal. I was pulling my hair out looking for a sound designer who could take on the challenge; There were a lot of outdoor scenes where the recorded sound was inaudible, and we also needed a lot of effects sounds for the zombies and for the action scenes. After months of searching, I met a fellow filmmaker one evening who recommended Robin Sherry Wood to me, and after that it was smooth sailing. He did an incredible job, even down to creating bottom up sound design for entire scenes, such as the very first scene of the film where Robbie is on a date in the car. None of the audio in that scene was recorded on the day. The car engine, the dialogue, the sounds of motion, absolutely everything was put in in post by Robin, and no one seems to notice a thing when watching it. That\u2019s how good he is. And then with the music\u2026 All I\u2019ll say is\u2026 Just because you can create beautiful music doesn\u2019t mean you know how to score a movie. I went through ten music composers before I found someone who understood how to craft the music around the emotional beats within the scene. That someone is Steven McKenna of DRVN Pictures, and his work speaks for itself. I said I wanted three distinct motifs, and he nailed every one of them. Every now and then I\u2019ll listen to the love theme just for the pleasure of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207583\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead2.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"424\"><\/p>\nWhat was the biggest challenge you overcame when creating Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAside from the post production issues I mentioned, I think it was just the fear of going into the unknown. Especially for the massive cast sequences. Anyone can shoot a scene of two people talking. But shooting an action sequence in the middle of a forest where a horde of zombies are chasing your protagonists and a battle erupts\u2026 That\u2019s not an ordinary day on set. I had absolutely no idea if we\u2019d pull it off. But I knew that if we did, we\u2019d have done something amazing, we\u2019ll have grown as artists from the experience, and I trusted the people I had around me to be able to help me to get the job done. The rest is history. And because of this experience, I\u2019ll never make a movie where I don\u2019t attempt to do something that feels slightly beyond my ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nAre you happy with how the movie turned out?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m blown away by it. Watching the film and seeing what we accomplished, (which I believe is a cinema-quality, funny, emotional, Irish genre film,) never fails to make me feel emotional. And add to that the successful and ongoing festival run, in which we\u2019ve currently amassed 14 wins and 4 nominations, it\u2019s actually insane to think of where we started from and where we\u2019re at with it today. It\u2019s unbelievable.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207584\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead3.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead3\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nWhat has the feedback been like for Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe frustration for us at the moment is that, because of Covid, all of the festivals have been virtual so far, having to move to a digital format until things get back to normal. So although we\u2019ve won awards at practically every festival we\u2019ve screened at, we\u2019ve never seen an audience's reaction in the theater. So that\u2019s been tough, and we\u2019ve no idea how to gauge each individual aspect of the film as a result. We just know it\u2019s been extremely positive feedback on the whole. But we\u2019re looking forward to some live festivals coming up in the next few months, so\u2026 That\u2019s going to be a whole new experience for us. Excited isn\u2019t the word.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould we see more Follow the Dead<\/em> movies in the future?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe sequel is already written. And I sat down with the cast members in November for a script reading and we were falling around laughing. So yeah, we\u2019re hoping to get that one off the ground as soon as we can. And in my head the story is a trilogy. So let\u2019s see how far we get with it. But I love these characters so much; as much as I love working with the actors, so\u2026 I\u2019m totally committed to that journey if we can make it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nIf any of our readers wanted to get their eyes on Follow the Dead<\/em>, how can they do that?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe best thing to do is to follow us on our social media pages. We\u2019re @followthedeadmovie on Facebook and Instagram. (You can also check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">followthedead.com<\/a> if you want a really<\/em> deep dive into the making of the film including a Behind the Scenes documentary.) We\u2019re always posting about what\u2019s happening with the film regarding festivals, news, merchandise, stuff like that. But if you can\u2019t make it to a festival, there\u2019ll be news very soon about how you can catch the film online, exclusively on a brand new and exciting streaming service which will be launching very soon. So keep your eyes peeled for that one.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wz3JRdmLBsk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIf you\u2019ve made it this far into the interview, I sincerely from the bottom of my heart thank you for your interest. I really hope Follow the Dead tickles your fancy if you haven\u2019t yet seen it, and I hope you can check it out very soon. If you want to know what else I\u2019m doing outside of the realm of zombie flicks, my company is Wild Stag Productions. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using @wildstagmedia, or check out the official website at <a href=\"http:\/\/wildstagpoductions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildstagpoductions.com<\/a>. We\u2019re a media company that specializes in making Irish genre films. I basically want to make Irish versions of all my favourite genres, including a Western which I\u2019m writing at the moment. So yeah\u2026 thank you all for your time, and I hope you join us for the next part of our journey!<\/span><\/p>\nA big thank you to Adam for sitting and chatting with us; we wish him the best of luck with his film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.followthedead.com<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a><\/p>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Adam William Cahill","post_excerpt":"Follow the Dead","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-adam-william-cahill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:51:19","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:51:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207575","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207564,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the producers and directors of\u00a0<\/span>Young Plato, a\u00a0<\/span><\/em>documentary set in post-conflict Belfast.<\/span><\/p>\nAn observational documentary set in post-conflict Belfast\u2019s Ardoyne, where a marginalized, working-class community has for generations been plagued by poverty, drugs and guns. This film charts the dream of Headmaster Kevin McArevey and his dedicated visionary team, illustrating how critical thinking and pastoral care can empower and encourage children to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of their own community. We see how philosophy can encourage them to question the mythologies of war and of violence, and challenge the narratives of their community.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207571\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDavid Rane - Producer<\/span><\/p>\nNeasa Ni Chianain - Director<\/span><\/p>\nDeclan McGrath -<\/span> Co-Producer\/Director\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nKevin McArevey - Principal in the school<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207572\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato2-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato2\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207569\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato4.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/p>","post_title":"Young Plato Interviews","post_excerpt":"David Rane","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"young-plato-interviews","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:53:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:53:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207514,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by the writer and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. The very talented Mr Cadwell has worked on numerous comics. Some of the comics he has worked on include: Nelson<\/em>, Lovecraft Anthology 2<\/em>, Sold State Tank Girl<\/em>, Samuari Jack<\/em>, Dangeritis<\/em>, Helena Crash<\/em> and Mr. Higgins Comes Home<\/em>.<\/span>\n\nHi Warwick, happy new year to you. It's a pleasure to have you here with us. <\/span><\/strong>As some of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nHello, and Happy New Year! <\/em>Falconspeare is my third book with Dark Horse comics and Mike Mignola, but before then came<\/em> Samurai Jack, Helena Crash, The Marionette Unit, Dangeritis, and Tank Girl. But aside from comics I have worked for publishers and in the animation industry. I\u2019m just a very enthusiastic drawer\/drawist.<\/em><\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the origins of Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nFalconspeare is the third book in a sort of series (at this stage they can still be read in any order) following the adventures of a group of vampire hunters of old. In this book we discover they shared their formative years with a fourth member,<\/em> James Falconspeare, and here we discover what has happened to him since the group last met many years before.<\/em><\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207518\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp1-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp1\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nHow would you describe the Falconspeare<\/em> graphic novel?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nIt\u2019s a vampire adventure of sorts. These books revel in the classic horror worlds <\/span>of Universal Studios and Hammer Horror, but have their own flavor too. They\u2019re <\/span><\/em>also inspired by Mike Mignola, who wrote the first book,<\/em> Mr. Higgins Comes Home. I <\/em><\/span>have tried to maintain a level of humor in there, too. But this is the darkest book of the three, I think.<\/span><\/em>\n\nFor our readers who are not familiar with Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan. What can you tell us about these characters?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThese are classic vampire adventurers, like Van Helsing or Professor Abronsius. <\/span>Professor Meinhardt is an academic expert in the supernatural, and Mr. Knox is a <\/span>compassionate and careful force for good. Ms. Mary Van Sloan is a spirited fighting <\/span>force. They\u2019re all enthusiastic and brave, but also pretty lucky in a world where the <\/span>forces of evil command a strong upper hand. And in this book we find that James <\/span>Falconspeare is the honorable, law-abiding champion of the group.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207519\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp2-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp2\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhen you were creating the graphic novel, did you write a full script?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI did, eventually. I\u2019m an artist mainly, and very interested in narrative. My process for the last two books was to firstly work out the story in sketches and thumbnails to <\/span>determine what I wanted to do. Then I turned that into a script, which I then redrew as roughs. The two sets of roughs either side of the script aren\u2019t easy to compare., <\/span>however, as the first is spread over many sketchbooks in many sizes and qualities over the course of a few years.<\/span><\/em>\n\nYou are the writer and artist on Falconspeare<\/em>; what do you enjoy being more a writer or an artist?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAn artist I think, but that\u2019s mainly because I\u2019m more comfortable with that aspect. I love getting to grips with writing, and I really enjoy working with word and images to create stories. I like working with writers very much, but I\u2019m really enjoying being in charge of both the script and art to model the stories.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207520\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp3-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nDo you have a favourite character from Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAh! That\u2019s tricky, because I like them all. The main three we\u2019ve already met in the other books get a chance to develop or reaffirm their characters, which is nice. But getting to introduce new characters is great, and there\u2019s plenty in this. There\u2019s a brief appearance from Meinhardt, Knox, and Sloan\u2019s very grumpy butler (Mr. Tuphold). He\u2019s only in a<\/span>couple of panels, but he makes me laugh, and I think he could be a great character in future. Such an angry old character.<\/span><\/em>\n\nCould we see more of Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan in the future?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI certainly hope so, though I\u2019ve got away with a lot so far. Drawing these books is <\/span>amazing fun, and every page throws up more ideas for more stories to tell. So, I hope we get to follow their crazy adventures further.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207521\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp4-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp4\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhat are you currently reading?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nMy reading goes all over the place, often a long way behind. And in that spirit, \u201cAcheron\u201d by Mike Mignola at Dark Horse was ace! Steeple by John Allison, too. I love that series. Kyle Starks and Chris Schweitzer\u2019s<\/em> 6 Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton (Image) was also awesome! Other than that, I\u2019m mainly rereading<\/em> The Tomb Of Dracula or<\/em> Dracula Lives.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nTry out Falconspeare? Follow me for art if they\u2019re keen on Instagram @wocco or <\/em><\/span>on Twitter @warwickjc.<\/em> But mainly I\u2019d encourage ComicBuzz readers to get drawing\/ reading or making. Anything. It\u2019s awesome fun.<\/em><\/span>\n\nA big thank you to Warwick Johnson-Cadwell for taking the time to chat with us. We would like to wish him and his team the best of luck with Falconspeare.<\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Warwick Johnson-Cadwell","post_excerpt":"Falconspeare","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-warwick-johnson-cadwell","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:04:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:04:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207514","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207445,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_content":"With the second issue of the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series out next week from Dark Horse Comics, we are so delighted to be joined by the co-writer of the comic, Rob Williams. Rob Williams has written numerous titles. Some of the titles he has worked on include\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>, Suicide Squad<\/em>,\u00a0Trinity<\/em>,\u00a0Action Comics<\/em>,\u00a0Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>,\u00a0Judge Dredd<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Rob, happy new year to you; it's great to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\nWe have been fans of your work ever since we read\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nThanks! Good memories!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did you get involved with the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019d just done a creepy gangsters-haunted-by-ghosts creator-owned book called Old Haunts\u00a0<\/em>via AWA Studios with Laurence Campbell. Laurence drew\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0for Mike Mignola and Dark Horse for a number of years, and had been talking to Mike and the guys about doing a Gall Dennar barbarian story. He asked if I\u2019d be interested in coming on to write the book, and I think the Hellboy team liked\u00a0Old Haunts<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat made you want to be a part of the Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0<\/em>miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWorking with Laurence is always a treat. He\u2019s brilliant, and one of my best friends. Working with Mike Mignola in the Hellboy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0world? Who wouldn\u2019t want to do that? I\u2019ve enjoyed those comics for the past couple of decades. It\u2019s a treat to be involved in that universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207448\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_1-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_1\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nHow would you describe the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe sword is an important weapon in the end times of the Hellboy\/B.P.R.D. story. It\u2019s a mythical blade much like Excalibur. Our series spans thousands of years and shows you four very different heroes who held the sword at various points before passing it on, allowing us to tell very Hellboy<\/em>-world tales in a Robert E. Howard-like barbarian landscape. Additionally we'll see stories set in World War I, World War II and finally the electric blues scene of Chicago in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series takes place in the world of\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>;\u00a0is the series new reader-friendly?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: We hope so. We\u2019ve certainly tried to make that the case. We had no interest in a big exposition-fest or historical tract. If you know the major points on the\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>\u00a0map, you\u2019ll get a kick out of the references. But really we have four heroes here, three of whom are brand new, and we want to send them on a journey and care about what happens to them. In introducing three new players who don\u2019t know the key facts of this world, readers are really in the same position as them, fighting against an evil they don\u2019t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207449\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_2-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_2\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nWhat is it like writing with Mike Mignola?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA treat, as I said. I\u2019ve been a fan for years. It\u2019s intimidating too, because Mike\u2019s one of the best writers we\u2019ve had in comics, and the level of people he collaborates with is extraordinarily high. But he was very welcoming and a great sounding board for Laurence and me. Mike had a plot in mind for Gall Dennar in issue #1, which we built out from. Then it was a case of a few Zoom calls discussing the world, and Mike leading us to a few places we should probably go. It was a really enjoyable experience.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe rest of the team for\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0consists of Laurence Campbell, Quinton Winter, Clem Robins and Dave Stewart. Were they already a part of the team when you joined the series?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nLaurence was onboard before me, yes. And then I think Laurence suggested colorist Quinton Winter, who lives near him. They know each other. Quinton coloured Unfollow<\/em>, a book of mine from Vertigo a few years ago, which Clem Robins also lettered. Small world. Dave Stewart had coloured Laurence's work on his B.P.R.D.<\/em> run, so he colored our covers.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhen you saw the art from Laurence Campbell and Quinton Winter, what did you think?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: I\u2019m very aware of what Laurence can do, having worked with him so often. He\u2019s a master of mood on the page, a brilliant storyteller. We wanted issue #1 to be an epic Terrence Malick-like quest across this incredible landscape from thousands of years ago, with evil priests, woolly mammoths, immense mountain ranges, and the odd pterodactyl. Laurence and Quinton have brought all that to such vivid life here.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207450\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_3-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_3\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nDo you have a favourite scene from the first issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: Gall Dennar, having been alone on his quest for years and sitting by a fire in the mountains, tripping on some barbarian concoction, calls out to his love from thousands of years in the future and a giant wolf spirit comes to talk to him. Laurence and Quinton did a phenomenal job there. It really feels magical.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell us about the second issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWe move the action through the Victorian London of Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder<\/em>\u00a0to the first ever zeppelin attacks on London, and then to Belgium in the First World War. A German agent called Graf Ling de Gotha is given a mission to find a cult that is undertaking strange ceremonies nearby, trying to summon something unnatural into the world\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207453\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_4-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_4\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can follow my work on Twitter @Robwilliams71 on Instagram on @Robwilliams1971 and on my website<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0Thanks!<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say thank you to Rob for his time and wish him and the team the best of luck with their series.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Rob Williams","post_excerpt":"\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-rob-williams","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:09:48","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:09:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207445","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207361,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_content":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Paula Wiseman chatted with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh about some of his upcoming movie and TV projects, and also about some of his amazing past work, including roles in 'Scorpion', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and 'Transformers - Age of Extinction<\/span>'.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Paula-Wiseman-chats-with-LA-based-Irish-actor--Glenn-Keogh-e1c0li4\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nIrish American actor\u00a0Glenn Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0appears on television twice the same week emerging December 3rd on the CBS action series\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the HBO hit comedy\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on December 5th. Keogh follows that up by heading to the big screen in the Marvel franchise film,\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em><\/strong>, releasing in theaters on December 17th.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the upcoming \u201cA Fire in the Ashes\u201d episode of\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em>, Keogh steps into the action as Parkes, when Magnum (Jay Hernandez) starts following Higgins (Perdita Weeks), who has been secretly assigned to infiltrate a group threatening to take down MI-6.<\/span><\/p>\r\nSwitching gears and going for laughs, Keogh enters into the acclaimed Larry David comedy series,\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em>, during the episode \u201cIrma Kostroski.\u201d The semi-improvised storyline is being kept under wraps, but revolves around Larry\u2019s latest predicament at work.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAudiences can also catch Keogh in theaters everywhere as part of the latest adventure facing Marvel\u2019s web-spinning superhero in\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em>. Directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man, whose identity now revealed, forces Peter into asking Doctor Strange for help.<\/span><\/p>\r\nKeogh is thrilled to have not one, not two, but three roles hitting screens in December, adding \u201cI was truly blessed to get to work my acting chops this year across these roles, in Honolulu, Atlanta and Los Angeles. All very different characters and a ton of fun to get to play in the Marvel, Curb and Magnum worlds! Excited to see them play out on screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFans will recall Keogh from his first Marvel adventure as the mischievous alien \u2018TROK\u2019 from\u00a0<\/em>Season 6 of ABC\u2019s beloved series,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. He also gained attention for starring alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Atkins in the sci-fi indie feature film,\u00a0Encounter,\u00a0<\/em>and for appearing in Michael Bay\u2019s blockbuster action film,\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Keogh proved a standout as King Fergus on ABC\u2019s fairytale fantasy drama,\u00a0Once Upon a\u00a0<\/em>Time, and recurring as Sean O\u2019Brien, father of Walter (Elyes Gabel), on the CBS drama,\u00a0Scorpion<\/em>. Keogh has worked all over the world in film and television projects including prominent roles in\u00a0Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan, The O.A., Criminal Minds, NCIS, Castle, Undercovers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0New Girl.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Paula Wiseman chats with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh","post_excerpt":"LA based Irish actor","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"paula-wiseman-chats-with-la-based-irish-actor-glenn-keogh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:31:21","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:31:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207361","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207274,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_content":"With the release of his first novel,\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em> we are delighted to be joined by the multi-talented Dave Thomas. Dave is not only an actor but a comedian, writer, producer and director. We got a chance to sit down and chat with Dave bout his novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nSome of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can find out who I am by looking at my website<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davethomas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0davethomas.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0But here is a short rundown of some of the things I have done, pulled from my biography:<\/span><\/p>\nThough new to writing books, I have done every type of television in every capacity, from sketch comedy and sitcoms to reality and game shows, animation and one hour drama. I started his career in comedy, as a writer\/performer for the Emmy Award-winning NBC sketch comedy show\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. I co-wrote the movie\u00a0Spies Like Us<\/em>\u00a0with Dan Aykroyd and directed and co-wrote the MGM cult classic\u00a0Strange Brew\u00a0<\/em>with Rick Moranis. I wrote and performed on a Grammy Award nominated album for Polygram with Rick. I directed\u00a0The Experts<\/em>\u00a0starring John Travolta for Paramount. I was executive produced and starred in my own comedy series for CBS,\u00a0the Dave Thomas Show<\/em>. From 1993 to 1998, i wrote for and co-starred in 115 episodes of the ABC sitcom\u00a0Grace Under Fire<\/em>. While working on that show I created a game show called\u00a0Family Challenge<\/em>\u00a0and produced 144 episodes for the Family Channel. My company Maple Palm Productions produced movies for Fox and HBO \u2013 most notably\u00a0Ambushed\u00a0<\/em>(Courtney Vance, Virginia Masden, William Forsythe and Robert Patrick). I co-created and executive produced\u00a0America\u2019s Funniest People\u00a0<\/em>(ABC) with Vin DiBona and I was executive producer of\u00a0the<\/em> Dennis Miller Show<\/em>\u00a0for Tribune. In 2001, I founded an animation company called Animax Entertainment and produced animation series for ABC (Slacker Cats<\/em>), ESPN (Off Mikes<\/em>), and MTV (Popzilla and Big Box<\/em>) and Global television in Canada (Bob and Doug<\/em>). I won my second Emmy Award for Animax\u2019s ESPN show\u00a0\u201cOff Mikes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in 2006. Lured into drama writing by his pal, Hart Hanson, Dave wrote a spec script for\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Fox) that was produced in 2008 and then Hart asked Dave to join the writing staff of\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0for more than 50 episodes as a Consulting Producer. After three years with Bones, I was asked to join the writing staff of NBC\u2019s the\u00a0Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0also as a consulting producer. This year, along with the cast of SCTV, I produced a reunion show called\u00a0An Afternoon with SCTV<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix directed by Martin Scorcese. Currently, I am writing his second book entitled\u00a0The Perfect Life<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDid you always want to write a novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNo, writing a novel is something I didn\u2019t really think about until a couple of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat are some of the novels that you enjoy?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMy two favorite novels are\u00a0What Dreams May Come<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Matheson and\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Josh Bazell. I am now and always have been a fan of all of Max Allan Collin\u2019s work \u2013 especially his historical fictions\u00a0The Titanic Murders<\/em>,\u00a0Flying Blind<\/em>and\u00a0Ask Not<\/em>.\u00a0And my pal, Hart Hanson write a book called\u00a0The Driver<\/em>\u00a0which I really enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy Leighton started out as a pitch for a television series. I became frustrated with the lack of response and started writing it as a novel. After writing three chapters, I put it aside and continued with more TV work. Max Allan Collins read those three chapters and he encouraged me to write more. Max is a very generous person and he offered to help me get a book agent and a publisher. And then he said, \u201cBut what I\u2019d rather do is write it with you.\u201d Well, Max is a renowned mystery writer who has written more than 100 novels. I had written none. So I would have to be an idiot not to take him up on an offer like that. The truth is, even though I started the book without him, I probably would never have finished it if Max hadn\u2019t written it with me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nYou co-wrote\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton\u00a0with Max Allan Collins; how did that come about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA mutual friend, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), introduced Max and I at San Diego\u2019s Comicon. Max and I met in person there very briefly but hit it off and continued the friendship by phone even though Max is in Muscatine Iowa, and I am in Los Angeles. Of particular note: this is a COVID collaboration \u2013 Max and I were never in the same room for one second of the writing. It was all done on phone and Zoom calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBefore Max got involved, had you started to write the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYes, I wrote three chapters on my own, but only the Many Worlds sci-fi part. The mystery thread was not part of my original conception. That\u2019s something Max and I came up with after we started working on the book together.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow would you describe\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very strange little sci fi mystery thriller. It\u2019s a mix of police detective work and the theoretical ideas in quantum physics. The book tells the story of a small-time thief (Jimmy Leighton) who flees South Boston to escape from a Vietnamese gangster. Hiding out in Cambridge, Jimmy needs money and breaks into the house of a M.I.T. Physicist who happens to be running a quantum experiment in his basement based on the work of Princeton Physicist Hugh Everett III. Nosey little Jimmy connects the wrong outlet to the wrong cable from a stack of quantum batteries and finds himself transported to another version of his life 1000 miles away in Chicago. And that is only the beginning of his adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell about Jimmy Leighton?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy is not the sharpest tool in the shed when the book starts out but the experience of living several versions of his life is kind of a quantum school. Jimmy finally figures it out and finds a way to get what he needs to be happy. He was an orphan from South Boston who bounced around in foster homes the social service\u2019s system. Abused by at least two foster fathers, Jimmy ran away and hit the streets, becoming a homeless panhandler at the age of 12. But he had incredible street smarts and managed to survive, dodging the law and other homeless folk who preyed upon kids like him. He started robbing houses when he was 14 and became a seriously successful second story man, respected by many in the Boston crime community.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did NeoText end up publishing the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMax had the connection to NeoText because he had written a book with them before he met me. And Max made the deal for the book. I knew it would be a difficult sell because it\u2019s a cross-genre book. It\u2019s a sci-fi and it\u2019s a detective mystery thriller. A lot of publishers won\u2019t take a chance on cross-genre. They worry that their readers won\u2019t understand it. Or that they may become frightened reading the book because it does not stay within the preconceived expectations they had for it. But John Schoenfelder at Neo Text is a very open-minded man. And he\u2019s very supportive of his artists \u2013 that\u2019s what he calls us. No one in my 40 years working for television and film ever called me an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat was it like co-writing with Max Allan Collins?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI was surprised by how much Max and I have in common. I was familiar with some of his work, but the fact is, he has written so many books that, to be aware of them all, would\u2019ve been impossible. For example, I\u2019m a historical student of the Titanic disaster but Max actually wrote a book about a fictitious murder that takes place on that fateful voyage. To write a novel where you play out the action onboard that ship necessitated doing an incredible amount of research. So, Max and I were able to swap stories on that. Same thing with the Kennedy Assassination. And a lot of other things. We became fast friends during our collaboration writing this book. And there\u2019s no better way to get to know someone than working together on a book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFay Dalton created a lovely illustration for\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton;\u00a0was that her composition, or did you suggest ideas for it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s definitely her composition. We gave her some suggestions, but it was Faye who came up with the actual cover for the book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping ComicBuzz readers like this book. I think it definitely conforms to the comic book style of writing. Both Max and I think very visually, and I believe we painted word pictures for our readers that they will enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say a big thank you to Dave for taking the time to chat with us and we wish him and Max the best of luck with their novel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Dave Thomas","post_excerpt":"The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-dave-thomas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:32:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:32:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207274","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":16},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_22"};</script></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4e19fa1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-epic_archive_pagination_elementor" data-id="4e19fa1" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="epic_archive_pagination_elementor.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="jeg_navigation jeg_pagination jeg_pagenav_1 jeg_aligncenter no_pageinfo"> Page 16 of 32 <a class="page_nav prev" data-id="15" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/">Previous</a> <a class='page_number' data-id='1' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/'>1</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='15' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/'>15</a> 16 <a class='page_number' data-id='17' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/'>17</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='32' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/32/'>32</a> <a class="page_nav next" data-id="17" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/">Next</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></section> \n<\/p>\n","post_title":"Interviews from Dublin Comic-Con 2022","post_excerpt":"English actor and writer","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-dublin-comic-con-2022","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:26:07","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:26:07","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207663","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207656,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-18 15:39:27","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-18 15:39:27","post_content":"For our last red carpet interview at Diff, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview director Jono Mcleod and cast member Alan Cumming from the My Old School movie.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207658\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/myoldschool1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"myoldschool1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\r\nIn 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years became the stuff of legend.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0<\/a><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207657\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/myoldschool-631x1024.jpg\" alt=\"myoldschool\" width=\"631\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\r\nMy Old School<\/b><\/i> is a documentary directed by Jono McLeod on the subject of the Brandon Lee scandal.<\/span><\/p>","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish Gala screening of My Old School","post_excerpt":"Alan Cumming","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-gala-screening-of-my-old-school","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:26:45","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:26:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207656","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207638,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-03-17 14:06:06","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-17 14:06:06","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by Josh O'Neill today. Josh is publisher and co-founder of Beehive Books. As Beehive Books have launched a Kickstarter this week for the GratNin<\/em> graphic novel by Ronald Wimberly, we got a chance to sit down and chat with the editor of the graphic novel.<\/span>\n\nHi Josh, it's a pleasure to have you here with us.<\/span><\/strong>\n\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers and tell us about Beehive Books? Hello! I'm the publisher and co-founder of Beehive, a small-press graphic arts outfit based out of Philadelphia. We sometimes describe our project as an exercise in the possible -- we want to test the boundaries of what a book can be, and what kind of creative work we can produce. With inventive formats, visionary art and writing, and an utterly obsessive approach to design, we aim to build paper worlds. We have titles from Brecht Evens, Mike Mignola, Yuko Shimizu, Jim Woodring, Paul Pope, Bill Sienkiewicz, Ronald Wimberly, Rebekka Dunlap, Kent Williams and more. GratNin is our fourth project with Ronald.<\/span>\n\nHow did this collaboration between Ronald Wimberly and Beehive Books come about? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nI've worked with Ron several times as a contributor to books for my previous publishing venture, Locust Moon Press. So when Ma\u00eblle Doliveux and I launched Beehive in 2016, I knew Ron personally, and admired his work to no end. When Ma\u00eblle and I began approaching authors, our basic pitch was: what's a project that you think no publisher would take on? Ron, who for my money is one of the true visionary working artists of the 21st century, was literally the first person we approached. The answer then was LAAB Magazine, an experimental broadsheet art newspaper powered by the radical imagination -- we've since released three annual issues of LAAB. Now it's GratNin, this crazy accordion-folded story scroll, the next step of our ongoing work together (and part of the sort of nascent LAAB imprint). Ron has become more than an author, to us -- he's a friend and a partner, and his work is part of the DNA of Beehive.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207641\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin2.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin2\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\n\nWhen and how did you discover GratNin<\/em>? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nI just read it as a passionate follower of Ron's work. I'll read anything and everything he puts out. When I finally sat down to read the whole thing through several years ago, I just fell in -- it's full of such humor, excitement, suspense, humanity, love for its source material, love for its characters. And it has this wonderful feeling of being a huge world to roam around in. We follow the characters we follow, but there's this feeling that more intrigue is down every alleyway. It's just an outstanding comic and we're so excited to be publishing it. <\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the Kickstarter for the GratNin <\/em>graphic novel? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nGratNin presented an exciting and singular problem -- how to present this pageless digital comic in a print format.  As per our usual ideological commitments in Beehive, we came up with the least practical, most exciting solution -- to present these remarkable stories on a series of unbroken accordion-folded scrolls, turning the downward-swiping digital read into a thrillingly physical experience. You track down four hundred feet of narrow page-space, in a format that brings to mind skyscrapers, alleyways, subway tunnels -- all the long verticals iconically representing this fantastical vision of New York. And we filled the box with ephemera from this alternate reality -- metrocards and maps and furoshikis and trading cards, making up a whole enveloping experience, skulking around New York with then Namba clan.<\/span>\n\nWhat have been some of the hurdles that you have had to overcome to get the project up to this point?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThe biggest one was just figuring out how to present this story in a readable way. It's this pageless comic that goes down and down and down. How do you do it in print? That was the problem that we faced. It's the kind of problem that our team, and especially LAAB and GratNin designer Chloe Scheffe, find most delicious. I think it's been solved beautifully here.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207642\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin3.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin3\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\n\nWe understand that the graphic novel will be an accordion style with folded pages; was this feature something that you wanted to do right from the beginning? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nNo -- we started with the problem. We didn't know the best solution. We thought about doing it as a scroll, as a giant folding map, as a long vertical book with a spine at the top.  The accordion seemed the most elegant solution, especially for something so long -- we're talking about 600 pages, printed on three pieces of paper. It's the best at replicating and reinventing that feeling of falling down into this crazy thrilling world that you get from reading GratNin digitally.<\/span>\n\nBeehive Books is releasing the GratNin<\/em> graphic novel as a box set; can you tell us about the box set? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nWe took the next step, when designing GratNin as a fully formed reading experience -- we created a little miniature space to explore. We filled the box with ephemera from this alternate reality -- metrocards and maps and furoshikis and trading cards, making up a whole enveloping experience. A world for you to crawl into a skulk around. We didn\u2019t want to just present a print version of Ron\u2019s wonderful web comic \u2013 we wanted to work with him to reinvent it, and to build out his world.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207644\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin5.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin5\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\n\nAs you are crowdfunding the graphic novel and dealing directly with consumers, does that make the project more special for you?<\/strong> <\/span>\n\nWell, we crowdfund most of our projects, so it's not any different from what we usually do. But yes -- crowdfunding does mean a much deeper-than-average engagement with your audience, and we conceive of Beehive as something other than a producer of goods with a base of customers. We see our readership as a vital community, the backbone of this whole operation. They're keeping the garden cared for and the soil tilled, so we can grow the things we grow. Our practice of building books out of an engaged community of readers makes all of our projects feel a bit more special to me.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207643\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin4.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin4\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\n\nDo you have a favourite Kickstarter reward? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nBeyond the comic itself, I really love the printed cotton-cloth furoshiki wrap! I know I'll get a lot of use out of that... just a beautiful and useful object, which is all we ever really aim to make.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nBe kind to yourself. And buy GratNin! (These two go together quite nicely.)<\/span>\n\nWe would like to say thank you to Josh for chatting to us about <\/span>GratNin. <\/em><\/span>We would like to wish the whole team of GratNin<\/em> the best of luck.<\/span>\n\nFeel free to check out the<\/span><\/strong> campaign<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/beehivebooks\/gratnin?ref=6h1h34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> GranNin at<\/a><\/span><\/span><a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\"> Kickstater<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Josh O'Neill","post_excerpt":"GratNin\u00a0graphic novel","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-josh-oneill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:32:04","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:32:04","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207638","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207631,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-16 18:10:08","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-16 18:10:08","post_content":"Our very own Paula Wiseman is still covering what\u2019s going on at Diff. This time she got a chance to interview the director and cast members of Wolf.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207633\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wolf2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"wolf2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nNatalie Biancheri - Director<\/span> George Mackay - Jacob<\/span> Fionn O'Shea - Rufus<\/span> Lola Petticrew - Judith<\/span><\/p>\nBelieving he's a wolf trapped in a man's body, Jacob eats, sleeps and lives like one -- much to the shock of his family. When he's sent to a clinic, Jacob and his animal-bound peers are forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of curative therapies. However, once he meets the mysterious Wildcat,\u00a0their friendship blossoms into an undeniable infatuation, and Jacob must decide whether to renounce his true self for love.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-Wolf-e1fqghn\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dashboard\/episode\/e1fqghn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dashboard\/episode\/e1fqghn<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207636\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wolf3-707x1024.jpg\" alt=\"wolf3\" width=\"707\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of Wolf","post_excerpt":"George Mackay","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-wolf","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:33:52","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:33:52","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207631","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207592,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-10 16:46:35","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-10 16:46:35","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the writer, producer, director and cast members of The Feast<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207595\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast2-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\nA wealthy family has a dinner party at its home in the Welsh mountains, hosting a local businessman and farmer who hope to broker a business deal. A mysterious young woman arrives to be the family's waitress, and things begin to unravel.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207596\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDirector; Lee Haven Jones<\/span> Writer and Producer; Roger Williams<\/span> Annes Elwy - Cast member - Cadi<\/span> Nia Roberts - Cast member \u2013 Glenda<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207604\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast4-692x1024.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast4\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of The Feast","post_excerpt":"Lee Haven Jones","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-the-feast","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:44:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:44:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207592","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207575,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_content":"We are joined today by Irish filmmaker Adam William Cahill. Adam sat down with us to talk about his new film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Adam, it is so wonderful to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m an Irish filmmaker from Dublin, and the company director of Wild Stag Productions. I studied film production and earned my bachelor degree from the University of Wolverhampton. Straight out of college I decided to sink or swim as far as diving straight into the industry goes, and that\u2019s how I ended up making my first feature film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you tell us about the origins of <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nInitially it was a short film idea imagined by Luke Corcoran, the actor who would become the lead in the feature film. He wrote a short script about three flatmates in Dublin who come across a zombie in their apartment and comedic mayhem ensues. We were initially going to shoot that script, which was called Craic of the Dead (\u201ccraic\u201d being an Irish colloquialism for fun), but we ran into some problems along the way. This gave me the time to really meditate on the concept a while, and the thing that was really hooking me about the plot was that we were essentially telling a story about Irish Millennials, a very specific demographic, dealing with a problem that we haven\u2019t seen them challenged with before. I wondered what a generation engrossed in technology, surrounded by fake news, and basically more comfortable than any generation that came before it would react to such a perilous event. Luke was gracious enough to let me take the idea and go off and write something more expansive, which I did. And a hundred pages later I had written a story about a family of Millennials in the countryside town of Ferbane who hear that Dublin has been destroyed by the undead, but don\u2019t know what to believe, and don\u2019t necessarily feel responsible to do anything about it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HTG9a78M6Gk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nHow would you describe Follow the Dead?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a dark comedy about a man in his thirties, Robbie, who can\u2019t manage to find the love he\u2019s looking for in a Tinder-centric society, and only begins to realize what he\u2019s missing when his estranged wife comes back into his life. Unluckily for him, this reunion just so happens to take place right as the town is in a frenzy, divided over the mysterious news that Dublin is experiencing a blackout, and the prevailing theory is that zombies are the cause. To add insult to injury, Robbie has to take care of his wannabe-celebrity sister Liv, who\u2019s trying to use the events to boost her social media presence, and their stoner cousins Jay and Chi, who can\u2019t agree on a single thing. The result: comedy and mayhem.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the cast of Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI had the great privilege of working with some incredible actors for this film, who were honoured with a Best Ensemble Cast nomination from the Seattle Film Festival last year. The dramatic performances from Luke Corcoran, Marybeth Herron, and Cristina Ryan are so moving, and they really carry the weight of the themes surrounding sacrifice and responsibility within the film so incredibly well. I\u2019m so proud of what they brought to the story through their rawness and vulnerability. And then there\u2019s Luke Collins and Tadhg Devery as the stoner cousins who are just so insanely hilarious, in very distinct ways; Luke with his unique physicality, and Tadhg with his incredible turn-of-phrase. We\u2019ve been honoured with numerous Comedy Feature awards internationally, with Tadhg receiving a Best Supporting Actor award from the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival too. I\u2019m really indebted to them for being so impressive in that way, and I really love that the Irish sense of humour (not to mention the accents) has really translated to foreign audiences. Truth be told, we actually filmed Follow the Dead twice. The first time, without a budget, we shot about 60% of the script, but then came back to do it all again with a bigger crew and a pittance of funding later in the year. I did that because I was blown away by the performances from the cast, which really made me believe in them and in what we were creating. So yeah\u2026 That\u2019s how much faith and love I have for these incredible artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207581\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/adamwilliamcahill-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"adamwilliamcahill\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\nYou are the writer, producer and director on Follow the Dead<\/em>. That sounds like a huge amount of work on your shoulders; how did you manage all of these hats?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWell the whole process took so much longer than it should have because of the fact that I was juggling everything. We shot Follow the Dead in August 2017, and it wasn\u2019t ready for festivals until 2020. So it was a case of taking things step by step. This was also my first feature, so I was totally unaware of how mammoth the undertaking was going to be. But that helped in a way, because I wasn\u2019t concerned with how high the mountain was; I had no idea. So I just took each step as it came, learned on the fly, and thankfully it all worked out in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the writing process; what was it like for you?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWriting is one of the most arduous stages of development for me. I\u2019m a perfectionist, and I\u2019m a plotter; I need to know exactly where the story is going and all of the checkpoints along the way before I can get started. So before the script stage I have pages and pages and pages of notes, outlines, charts, and all sorts, and only when I can play the whole movie out visually in my head can I then sit down and write it. The only really improvisational aspect of the scripts I write is the dialogue, which I come up with as I\u2019m typing. Except for the jokes; 90% of them are planned ahead of time too. But I have to say that Follow the Dead<\/em> was the easiest script I\u2019ve written so far, purely because I had done so much meditating about it while we were planning the short film. So I have to thank Luke Corcoran for the inspiration for this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207582\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead1.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nHow did you go about finding the cast?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt was really organic. Luke was always going to play Robbie because I never diverged from that plan since the short film stage. I had worked with Marybeth Herron and Tadhg Devery on my final year student film Inertia<\/em>, and I knew they\u2019d be ideal for Liv and Chi respectively. From there, Tadhg introduced me to Cristina Ryan and Aidan O\u2019Sullivan when we were considering who would play the Garda\u00ed in the film, with the character of Kate also being Robbie\u2019s love interest, and they fit those characters like a glove. And then Luke recommended Luke Collins to play Jay, and Ian Anthony Lawless to play Zippy. They were both primarily theater actors at the time, but did an amazing job bringing that developed stage presence to the big screen. So as you can tell, it was very much a casting process based on relationships, which I think gave us that tight-knit familial connection on set that allowed us to work so well as a team to do what almost none of us had done before.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWas it a difficult task to find the technical crew that you needed to shoot the movie?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt wasn\u2019t difficult on the production side of things. I had seen the cinematography showreel of Stephen C. Walsh on social media somewhere, and I was incredibly impressed with his work. So I reached out to him with the pitch for the feature and he got on board very quickly after that. And we\u2019re tremendously blessed that he did. He was a one man film crew; doing all the camera work, the lighting, the rigging\u2026 He was a beast, and I really felt like I had a lieutenant with me going into battle in what was unfamiliar territory for me, but not at all for him. That was comforting to say the least. Post production was a lot more difficult a stage. I edited the film myself, so that was no problem. But getting a good sound designer and music composer was an ordeal. I was pulling my hair out looking for a sound designer who could take on the challenge; There were a lot of outdoor scenes where the recorded sound was inaudible, and we also needed a lot of effects sounds for the zombies and for the action scenes. After months of searching, I met a fellow filmmaker one evening who recommended Robin Sherry Wood to me, and after that it was smooth sailing. He did an incredible job, even down to creating bottom up sound design for entire scenes, such as the very first scene of the film where Robbie is on a date in the car. None of the audio in that scene was recorded on the day. The car engine, the dialogue, the sounds of motion, absolutely everything was put in in post by Robin, and no one seems to notice a thing when watching it. That\u2019s how good he is. And then with the music\u2026 All I\u2019ll say is\u2026 Just because you can create beautiful music doesn\u2019t mean you know how to score a movie. I went through ten music composers before I found someone who understood how to craft the music around the emotional beats within the scene. That someone is Steven McKenna of DRVN Pictures, and his work speaks for itself. I said I wanted three distinct motifs, and he nailed every one of them. Every now and then I\u2019ll listen to the love theme just for the pleasure of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207583\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead2.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"424\"><\/p>\nWhat was the biggest challenge you overcame when creating Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAside from the post production issues I mentioned, I think it was just the fear of going into the unknown. Especially for the massive cast sequences. Anyone can shoot a scene of two people talking. But shooting an action sequence in the middle of a forest where a horde of zombies are chasing your protagonists and a battle erupts\u2026 That\u2019s not an ordinary day on set. I had absolutely no idea if we\u2019d pull it off. But I knew that if we did, we\u2019d have done something amazing, we\u2019ll have grown as artists from the experience, and I trusted the people I had around me to be able to help me to get the job done. The rest is history. And because of this experience, I\u2019ll never make a movie where I don\u2019t attempt to do something that feels slightly beyond my ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nAre you happy with how the movie turned out?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m blown away by it. Watching the film and seeing what we accomplished, (which I believe is a cinema-quality, funny, emotional, Irish genre film,) never fails to make me feel emotional. And add to that the successful and ongoing festival run, in which we\u2019ve currently amassed 14 wins and 4 nominations, it\u2019s actually insane to think of where we started from and where we\u2019re at with it today. It\u2019s unbelievable.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207584\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead3.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead3\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nWhat has the feedback been like for Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe frustration for us at the moment is that, because of Covid, all of the festivals have been virtual so far, having to move to a digital format until things get back to normal. So although we\u2019ve won awards at practically every festival we\u2019ve screened at, we\u2019ve never seen an audience's reaction in the theater. So that\u2019s been tough, and we\u2019ve no idea how to gauge each individual aspect of the film as a result. We just know it\u2019s been extremely positive feedback on the whole. But we\u2019re looking forward to some live festivals coming up in the next few months, so\u2026 That\u2019s going to be a whole new experience for us. Excited isn\u2019t the word.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould we see more Follow the Dead<\/em> movies in the future?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe sequel is already written. And I sat down with the cast members in November for a script reading and we were falling around laughing. So yeah, we\u2019re hoping to get that one off the ground as soon as we can. And in my head the story is a trilogy. So let\u2019s see how far we get with it. But I love these characters so much; as much as I love working with the actors, so\u2026 I\u2019m totally committed to that journey if we can make it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nIf any of our readers wanted to get their eyes on Follow the Dead<\/em>, how can they do that?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe best thing to do is to follow us on our social media pages. We\u2019re @followthedeadmovie on Facebook and Instagram. (You can also check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">followthedead.com<\/a> if you want a really<\/em> deep dive into the making of the film including a Behind the Scenes documentary.) We\u2019re always posting about what\u2019s happening with the film regarding festivals, news, merchandise, stuff like that. But if you can\u2019t make it to a festival, there\u2019ll be news very soon about how you can catch the film online, exclusively on a brand new and exciting streaming service which will be launching very soon. So keep your eyes peeled for that one.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wz3JRdmLBsk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIf you\u2019ve made it this far into the interview, I sincerely from the bottom of my heart thank you for your interest. I really hope Follow the Dead tickles your fancy if you haven\u2019t yet seen it, and I hope you can check it out very soon. If you want to know what else I\u2019m doing outside of the realm of zombie flicks, my company is Wild Stag Productions. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using @wildstagmedia, or check out the official website at <a href=\"http:\/\/wildstagpoductions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildstagpoductions.com<\/a>. We\u2019re a media company that specializes in making Irish genre films. I basically want to make Irish versions of all my favourite genres, including a Western which I\u2019m writing at the moment. So yeah\u2026 thank you all for your time, and I hope you join us for the next part of our journey!<\/span><\/p>\nA big thank you to Adam for sitting and chatting with us; we wish him the best of luck with his film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.followthedead.com<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a><\/p>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Adam William Cahill","post_excerpt":"Follow the Dead","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-adam-william-cahill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:51:19","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:51:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207575","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207564,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the producers and directors of\u00a0<\/span>Young Plato, a\u00a0<\/span><\/em>documentary set in post-conflict Belfast.<\/span><\/p>\nAn observational documentary set in post-conflict Belfast\u2019s Ardoyne, where a marginalized, working-class community has for generations been plagued by poverty, drugs and guns. This film charts the dream of Headmaster Kevin McArevey and his dedicated visionary team, illustrating how critical thinking and pastoral care can empower and encourage children to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of their own community. We see how philosophy can encourage them to question the mythologies of war and of violence, and challenge the narratives of their community.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207571\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDavid Rane - Producer<\/span><\/p>\nNeasa Ni Chianain - Director<\/span><\/p>\nDeclan McGrath -<\/span> Co-Producer\/Director\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nKevin McArevey - Principal in the school<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207572\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato2-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato2\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207569\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato4.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/p>","post_title":"Young Plato Interviews","post_excerpt":"David Rane","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"young-plato-interviews","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:53:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:53:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207514,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by the writer and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. The very talented Mr Cadwell has worked on numerous comics. Some of the comics he has worked on include: Nelson<\/em>, Lovecraft Anthology 2<\/em>, Sold State Tank Girl<\/em>, Samuari Jack<\/em>, Dangeritis<\/em>, Helena Crash<\/em> and Mr. Higgins Comes Home<\/em>.<\/span>\n\nHi Warwick, happy new year to you. It's a pleasure to have you here with us. <\/span><\/strong>As some of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nHello, and Happy New Year! <\/em>Falconspeare is my third book with Dark Horse comics and Mike Mignola, but before then came<\/em> Samurai Jack, Helena Crash, The Marionette Unit, Dangeritis, and Tank Girl. But aside from comics I have worked for publishers and in the animation industry. I\u2019m just a very enthusiastic drawer\/drawist.<\/em><\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the origins of Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nFalconspeare is the third book in a sort of series (at this stage they can still be read in any order) following the adventures of a group of vampire hunters of old. In this book we discover they shared their formative years with a fourth member,<\/em> James Falconspeare, and here we discover what has happened to him since the group last met many years before.<\/em><\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207518\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp1-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp1\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nHow would you describe the Falconspeare<\/em> graphic novel?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nIt\u2019s a vampire adventure of sorts. These books revel in the classic horror worlds <\/span>of Universal Studios and Hammer Horror, but have their own flavor too. They\u2019re <\/span><\/em>also inspired by Mike Mignola, who wrote the first book,<\/em> Mr. Higgins Comes Home. I <\/em><\/span>have tried to maintain a level of humor in there, too. But this is the darkest book of the three, I think.<\/span><\/em>\n\nFor our readers who are not familiar with Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan. What can you tell us about these characters?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThese are classic vampire adventurers, like Van Helsing or Professor Abronsius. <\/span>Professor Meinhardt is an academic expert in the supernatural, and Mr. Knox is a <\/span>compassionate and careful force for good. Ms. Mary Van Sloan is a spirited fighting <\/span>force. They\u2019re all enthusiastic and brave, but also pretty lucky in a world where the <\/span>forces of evil command a strong upper hand. And in this book we find that James <\/span>Falconspeare is the honorable, law-abiding champion of the group.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207519\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp2-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp2\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhen you were creating the graphic novel, did you write a full script?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI did, eventually. I\u2019m an artist mainly, and very interested in narrative. My process for the last two books was to firstly work out the story in sketches and thumbnails to <\/span>determine what I wanted to do. Then I turned that into a script, which I then redrew as roughs. The two sets of roughs either side of the script aren\u2019t easy to compare., <\/span>however, as the first is spread over many sketchbooks in many sizes and qualities over the course of a few years.<\/span><\/em>\n\nYou are the writer and artist on Falconspeare<\/em>; what do you enjoy being more a writer or an artist?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAn artist I think, but that\u2019s mainly because I\u2019m more comfortable with that aspect. I love getting to grips with writing, and I really enjoy working with word and images to create stories. I like working with writers very much, but I\u2019m really enjoying being in charge of both the script and art to model the stories.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207520\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp3-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nDo you have a favourite character from Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAh! That\u2019s tricky, because I like them all. The main three we\u2019ve already met in the other books get a chance to develop or reaffirm their characters, which is nice. But getting to introduce new characters is great, and there\u2019s plenty in this. There\u2019s a brief appearance from Meinhardt, Knox, and Sloan\u2019s very grumpy butler (Mr. Tuphold). He\u2019s only in a<\/span>couple of panels, but he makes me laugh, and I think he could be a great character in future. Such an angry old character.<\/span><\/em>\n\nCould we see more of Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan in the future?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI certainly hope so, though I\u2019ve got away with a lot so far. Drawing these books is <\/span>amazing fun, and every page throws up more ideas for more stories to tell. So, I hope we get to follow their crazy adventures further.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207521\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp4-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp4\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhat are you currently reading?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nMy reading goes all over the place, often a long way behind. And in that spirit, \u201cAcheron\u201d by Mike Mignola at Dark Horse was ace! Steeple by John Allison, too. I love that series. Kyle Starks and Chris Schweitzer\u2019s<\/em> 6 Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton (Image) was also awesome! Other than that, I\u2019m mainly rereading<\/em> The Tomb Of Dracula or<\/em> Dracula Lives.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nTry out Falconspeare? Follow me for art if they\u2019re keen on Instagram @wocco or <\/em><\/span>on Twitter @warwickjc.<\/em> But mainly I\u2019d encourage ComicBuzz readers to get drawing\/ reading or making. Anything. It\u2019s awesome fun.<\/em><\/span>\n\nA big thank you to Warwick Johnson-Cadwell for taking the time to chat with us. We would like to wish him and his team the best of luck with Falconspeare.<\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Warwick Johnson-Cadwell","post_excerpt":"Falconspeare","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-warwick-johnson-cadwell","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:04:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:04:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207514","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207445,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_content":"With the second issue of the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series out next week from Dark Horse Comics, we are so delighted to be joined by the co-writer of the comic, Rob Williams. Rob Williams has written numerous titles. Some of the titles he has worked on include\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>, Suicide Squad<\/em>,\u00a0Trinity<\/em>,\u00a0Action Comics<\/em>,\u00a0Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>,\u00a0Judge Dredd<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Rob, happy new year to you; it's great to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\nWe have been fans of your work ever since we read\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nThanks! Good memories!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did you get involved with the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019d just done a creepy gangsters-haunted-by-ghosts creator-owned book called Old Haunts\u00a0<\/em>via AWA Studios with Laurence Campbell. Laurence drew\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0for Mike Mignola and Dark Horse for a number of years, and had been talking to Mike and the guys about doing a Gall Dennar barbarian story. He asked if I\u2019d be interested in coming on to write the book, and I think the Hellboy team liked\u00a0Old Haunts<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat made you want to be a part of the Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0<\/em>miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWorking with Laurence is always a treat. He\u2019s brilliant, and one of my best friends. Working with Mike Mignola in the Hellboy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0world? Who wouldn\u2019t want to do that? I\u2019ve enjoyed those comics for the past couple of decades. It\u2019s a treat to be involved in that universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207448\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_1-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_1\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nHow would you describe the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe sword is an important weapon in the end times of the Hellboy\/B.P.R.D. story. It\u2019s a mythical blade much like Excalibur. Our series spans thousands of years and shows you four very different heroes who held the sword at various points before passing it on, allowing us to tell very Hellboy<\/em>-world tales in a Robert E. Howard-like barbarian landscape. Additionally we'll see stories set in World War I, World War II and finally the electric blues scene of Chicago in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series takes place in the world of\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>;\u00a0is the series new reader-friendly?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: We hope so. We\u2019ve certainly tried to make that the case. We had no interest in a big exposition-fest or historical tract. If you know the major points on the\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>\u00a0map, you\u2019ll get a kick out of the references. But really we have four heroes here, three of whom are brand new, and we want to send them on a journey and care about what happens to them. In introducing three new players who don\u2019t know the key facts of this world, readers are really in the same position as them, fighting against an evil they don\u2019t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207449\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_2-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_2\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nWhat is it like writing with Mike Mignola?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA treat, as I said. I\u2019ve been a fan for years. It\u2019s intimidating too, because Mike\u2019s one of the best writers we\u2019ve had in comics, and the level of people he collaborates with is extraordinarily high. But he was very welcoming and a great sounding board for Laurence and me. Mike had a plot in mind for Gall Dennar in issue #1, which we built out from. Then it was a case of a few Zoom calls discussing the world, and Mike leading us to a few places we should probably go. It was a really enjoyable experience.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe rest of the team for\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0consists of Laurence Campbell, Quinton Winter, Clem Robins and Dave Stewart. Were they already a part of the team when you joined the series?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nLaurence was onboard before me, yes. And then I think Laurence suggested colorist Quinton Winter, who lives near him. They know each other. Quinton coloured Unfollow<\/em>, a book of mine from Vertigo a few years ago, which Clem Robins also lettered. Small world. Dave Stewart had coloured Laurence's work on his B.P.R.D.<\/em> run, so he colored our covers.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhen you saw the art from Laurence Campbell and Quinton Winter, what did you think?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: I\u2019m very aware of what Laurence can do, having worked with him so often. He\u2019s a master of mood on the page, a brilliant storyteller. We wanted issue #1 to be an epic Terrence Malick-like quest across this incredible landscape from thousands of years ago, with evil priests, woolly mammoths, immense mountain ranges, and the odd pterodactyl. Laurence and Quinton have brought all that to such vivid life here.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207450\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_3-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_3\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nDo you have a favourite scene from the first issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: Gall Dennar, having been alone on his quest for years and sitting by a fire in the mountains, tripping on some barbarian concoction, calls out to his love from thousands of years in the future and a giant wolf spirit comes to talk to him. Laurence and Quinton did a phenomenal job there. It really feels magical.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell us about the second issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWe move the action through the Victorian London of Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder<\/em>\u00a0to the first ever zeppelin attacks on London, and then to Belgium in the First World War. A German agent called Graf Ling de Gotha is given a mission to find a cult that is undertaking strange ceremonies nearby, trying to summon something unnatural into the world\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207453\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_4-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_4\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can follow my work on Twitter @Robwilliams71 on Instagram on @Robwilliams1971 and on my website<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0Thanks!<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say thank you to Rob for his time and wish him and the team the best of luck with their series.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Rob Williams","post_excerpt":"\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-rob-williams","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:09:48","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:09:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207445","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207361,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_content":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Paula Wiseman chatted with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh about some of his upcoming movie and TV projects, and also about some of his amazing past work, including roles in 'Scorpion', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and 'Transformers - Age of Extinction<\/span>'.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Paula-Wiseman-chats-with-LA-based-Irish-actor--Glenn-Keogh-e1c0li4\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nIrish American actor\u00a0Glenn Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0appears on television twice the same week emerging December 3rd on the CBS action series\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the HBO hit comedy\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on December 5th. Keogh follows that up by heading to the big screen in the Marvel franchise film,\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em><\/strong>, releasing in theaters on December 17th.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the upcoming \u201cA Fire in the Ashes\u201d episode of\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em>, Keogh steps into the action as Parkes, when Magnum (Jay Hernandez) starts following Higgins (Perdita Weeks), who has been secretly assigned to infiltrate a group threatening to take down MI-6.<\/span><\/p>\r\nSwitching gears and going for laughs, Keogh enters into the acclaimed Larry David comedy series,\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em>, during the episode \u201cIrma Kostroski.\u201d The semi-improvised storyline is being kept under wraps, but revolves around Larry\u2019s latest predicament at work.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAudiences can also catch Keogh in theaters everywhere as part of the latest adventure facing Marvel\u2019s web-spinning superhero in\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em>. Directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man, whose identity now revealed, forces Peter into asking Doctor Strange for help.<\/span><\/p>\r\nKeogh is thrilled to have not one, not two, but three roles hitting screens in December, adding \u201cI was truly blessed to get to work my acting chops this year across these roles, in Honolulu, Atlanta and Los Angeles. All very different characters and a ton of fun to get to play in the Marvel, Curb and Magnum worlds! Excited to see them play out on screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFans will recall Keogh from his first Marvel adventure as the mischievous alien \u2018TROK\u2019 from\u00a0<\/em>Season 6 of ABC\u2019s beloved series,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. He also gained attention for starring alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Atkins in the sci-fi indie feature film,\u00a0Encounter,\u00a0<\/em>and for appearing in Michael Bay\u2019s blockbuster action film,\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Keogh proved a standout as King Fergus on ABC\u2019s fairytale fantasy drama,\u00a0Once Upon a\u00a0<\/em>Time, and recurring as Sean O\u2019Brien, father of Walter (Elyes Gabel), on the CBS drama,\u00a0Scorpion<\/em>. Keogh has worked all over the world in film and television projects including prominent roles in\u00a0Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan, The O.A., Criminal Minds, NCIS, Castle, Undercovers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0New Girl.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Paula Wiseman chats with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh","post_excerpt":"LA based Irish actor","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"paula-wiseman-chats-with-la-based-irish-actor-glenn-keogh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:31:21","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:31:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207361","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207274,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_content":"With the release of his first novel,\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em> we are delighted to be joined by the multi-talented Dave Thomas. Dave is not only an actor but a comedian, writer, producer and director. We got a chance to sit down and chat with Dave bout his novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nSome of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can find out who I am by looking at my website<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davethomas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0davethomas.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0But here is a short rundown of some of the things I have done, pulled from my biography:<\/span><\/p>\nThough new to writing books, I have done every type of television in every capacity, from sketch comedy and sitcoms to reality and game shows, animation and one hour drama. I started his career in comedy, as a writer\/performer for the Emmy Award-winning NBC sketch comedy show\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. I co-wrote the movie\u00a0Spies Like Us<\/em>\u00a0with Dan Aykroyd and directed and co-wrote the MGM cult classic\u00a0Strange Brew\u00a0<\/em>with Rick Moranis. I wrote and performed on a Grammy Award nominated album for Polygram with Rick. I directed\u00a0The Experts<\/em>\u00a0starring John Travolta for Paramount. I was executive produced and starred in my own comedy series for CBS,\u00a0the Dave Thomas Show<\/em>. From 1993 to 1998, i wrote for and co-starred in 115 episodes of the ABC sitcom\u00a0Grace Under Fire<\/em>. While working on that show I created a game show called\u00a0Family Challenge<\/em>\u00a0and produced 144 episodes for the Family Channel. My company Maple Palm Productions produced movies for Fox and HBO \u2013 most notably\u00a0Ambushed\u00a0<\/em>(Courtney Vance, Virginia Masden, William Forsythe and Robert Patrick). I co-created and executive produced\u00a0America\u2019s Funniest People\u00a0<\/em>(ABC) with Vin DiBona and I was executive producer of\u00a0the<\/em> Dennis Miller Show<\/em>\u00a0for Tribune. In 2001, I founded an animation company called Animax Entertainment and produced animation series for ABC (Slacker Cats<\/em>), ESPN (Off Mikes<\/em>), and MTV (Popzilla and Big Box<\/em>) and Global television in Canada (Bob and Doug<\/em>). I won my second Emmy Award for Animax\u2019s ESPN show\u00a0\u201cOff Mikes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in 2006. Lured into drama writing by his pal, Hart Hanson, Dave wrote a spec script for\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Fox) that was produced in 2008 and then Hart asked Dave to join the writing staff of\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0for more than 50 episodes as a Consulting Producer. After three years with Bones, I was asked to join the writing staff of NBC\u2019s the\u00a0Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0also as a consulting producer. This year, along with the cast of SCTV, I produced a reunion show called\u00a0An Afternoon with SCTV<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix directed by Martin Scorcese. Currently, I am writing his second book entitled\u00a0The Perfect Life<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDid you always want to write a novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNo, writing a novel is something I didn\u2019t really think about until a couple of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat are some of the novels that you enjoy?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMy two favorite novels are\u00a0What Dreams May Come<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Matheson and\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Josh Bazell. I am now and always have been a fan of all of Max Allan Collin\u2019s work \u2013 especially his historical fictions\u00a0The Titanic Murders<\/em>,\u00a0Flying Blind<\/em>and\u00a0Ask Not<\/em>.\u00a0And my pal, Hart Hanson write a book called\u00a0The Driver<\/em>\u00a0which I really enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy Leighton started out as a pitch for a television series. I became frustrated with the lack of response and started writing it as a novel. After writing three chapters, I put it aside and continued with more TV work. Max Allan Collins read those three chapters and he encouraged me to write more. Max is a very generous person and he offered to help me get a book agent and a publisher. And then he said, \u201cBut what I\u2019d rather do is write it with you.\u201d Well, Max is a renowned mystery writer who has written more than 100 novels. I had written none. So I would have to be an idiot not to take him up on an offer like that. The truth is, even though I started the book without him, I probably would never have finished it if Max hadn\u2019t written it with me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nYou co-wrote\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton\u00a0with Max Allan Collins; how did that come about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA mutual friend, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), introduced Max and I at San Diego\u2019s Comicon. Max and I met in person there very briefly but hit it off and continued the friendship by phone even though Max is in Muscatine Iowa, and I am in Los Angeles. Of particular note: this is a COVID collaboration \u2013 Max and I were never in the same room for one second of the writing. It was all done on phone and Zoom calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBefore Max got involved, had you started to write the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYes, I wrote three chapters on my own, but only the Many Worlds sci-fi part. The mystery thread was not part of my original conception. That\u2019s something Max and I came up with after we started working on the book together.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow would you describe\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very strange little sci fi mystery thriller. It\u2019s a mix of police detective work and the theoretical ideas in quantum physics. The book tells the story of a small-time thief (Jimmy Leighton) who flees South Boston to escape from a Vietnamese gangster. Hiding out in Cambridge, Jimmy needs money and breaks into the house of a M.I.T. Physicist who happens to be running a quantum experiment in his basement based on the work of Princeton Physicist Hugh Everett III. Nosey little Jimmy connects the wrong outlet to the wrong cable from a stack of quantum batteries and finds himself transported to another version of his life 1000 miles away in Chicago. And that is only the beginning of his adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell about Jimmy Leighton?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy is not the sharpest tool in the shed when the book starts out but the experience of living several versions of his life is kind of a quantum school. Jimmy finally figures it out and finds a way to get what he needs to be happy. He was an orphan from South Boston who bounced around in foster homes the social service\u2019s system. Abused by at least two foster fathers, Jimmy ran away and hit the streets, becoming a homeless panhandler at the age of 12. But he had incredible street smarts and managed to survive, dodging the law and other homeless folk who preyed upon kids like him. He started robbing houses when he was 14 and became a seriously successful second story man, respected by many in the Boston crime community.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did NeoText end up publishing the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMax had the connection to NeoText because he had written a book with them before he met me. And Max made the deal for the book. I knew it would be a difficult sell because it\u2019s a cross-genre book. It\u2019s a sci-fi and it\u2019s a detective mystery thriller. A lot of publishers won\u2019t take a chance on cross-genre. They worry that their readers won\u2019t understand it. Or that they may become frightened reading the book because it does not stay within the preconceived expectations they had for it. But John Schoenfelder at Neo Text is a very open-minded man. And he\u2019s very supportive of his artists \u2013 that\u2019s what he calls us. No one in my 40 years working for television and film ever called me an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat was it like co-writing with Max Allan Collins?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI was surprised by how much Max and I have in common. I was familiar with some of his work, but the fact is, he has written so many books that, to be aware of them all, would\u2019ve been impossible. For example, I\u2019m a historical student of the Titanic disaster but Max actually wrote a book about a fictitious murder that takes place on that fateful voyage. To write a novel where you play out the action onboard that ship necessitated doing an incredible amount of research. So, Max and I were able to swap stories on that. Same thing with the Kennedy Assassination. And a lot of other things. We became fast friends during our collaboration writing this book. And there\u2019s no better way to get to know someone than working together on a book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFay Dalton created a lovely illustration for\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton;\u00a0was that her composition, or did you suggest ideas for it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s definitely her composition. We gave her some suggestions, but it was Faye who came up with the actual cover for the book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping ComicBuzz readers like this book. I think it definitely conforms to the comic book style of writing. Both Max and I think very visually, and I believe we painted word pictures for our readers that they will enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say a big thank you to Dave for taking the time to chat with us and we wish him and Max the best of luck with their novel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Dave Thomas","post_excerpt":"The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-dave-thomas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:32:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:32:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207274","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":16},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_22"};</script></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4e19fa1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-epic_archive_pagination_elementor" data-id="4e19fa1" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="epic_archive_pagination_elementor.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="jeg_navigation jeg_pagination jeg_pagenav_1 jeg_aligncenter no_pageinfo"> Page 16 of 32 <a class="page_nav prev" data-id="15" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/">Previous</a> <a class='page_number' data-id='1' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/'>1</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='15' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/'>15</a> 16 <a class='page_number' data-id='17' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/'>17</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='32' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/32/'>32</a> <a class="page_nav next" data-id="17" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/">Next</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></section> \n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-Dublin-Comic-Con-2022-e1g1euc\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-Dublin-Comic-Con-2022-e1g1euc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-Dublin-Comic-Con-2022-e1g1euc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"Interviews from Dublin Comic-Con 2022","post_excerpt":"English actor and writer","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-dublin-comic-con-2022","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:26:07","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:26:07","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207663","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207656,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-18 15:39:27","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-18 15:39:27","post_content":"For our last red carpet interview at Diff, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview director Jono Mcleod and cast member Alan Cumming from the My Old School movie.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207658\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/myoldschool1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"myoldschool1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\r\nIn 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years became the stuff of legend.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0<\/a><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207657\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/myoldschool-631x1024.jpg\" alt=\"myoldschool\" width=\"631\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\r\nMy Old School<\/b><\/i> is a documentary directed by Jono McLeod on the subject of the Brandon Lee scandal.<\/span><\/p>","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish Gala screening of My Old School","post_excerpt":"Alan Cumming","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-gala-screening-of-my-old-school","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:26:45","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:26:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207656","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207638,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-03-17 14:06:06","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-17 14:06:06","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by Josh O'Neill today. Josh is publisher and co-founder of Beehive Books. As Beehive Books have launched a Kickstarter this week for the GratNin<\/em> graphic novel by Ronald Wimberly, we got a chance to sit down and chat with the editor of the graphic novel.<\/span>\n\nHi Josh, it's a pleasure to have you here with us.<\/span><\/strong>\n\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers and tell us about Beehive Books? Hello! I'm the publisher and co-founder of Beehive, a small-press graphic arts outfit based out of Philadelphia. We sometimes describe our project as an exercise in the possible -- we want to test the boundaries of what a book can be, and what kind of creative work we can produce. With inventive formats, visionary art and writing, and an utterly obsessive approach to design, we aim to build paper worlds. We have titles from Brecht Evens, Mike Mignola, Yuko Shimizu, Jim Woodring, Paul Pope, Bill Sienkiewicz, Ronald Wimberly, Rebekka Dunlap, Kent Williams and more. GratNin is our fourth project with Ronald.<\/span>\n\nHow did this collaboration between Ronald Wimberly and Beehive Books come about? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nI've worked with Ron several times as a contributor to books for my previous publishing venture, Locust Moon Press. So when Ma\u00eblle Doliveux and I launched Beehive in 2016, I knew Ron personally, and admired his work to no end. When Ma\u00eblle and I began approaching authors, our basic pitch was: what's a project that you think no publisher would take on? Ron, who for my money is one of the true visionary working artists of the 21st century, was literally the first person we approached. The answer then was LAAB Magazine, an experimental broadsheet art newspaper powered by the radical imagination -- we've since released three annual issues of LAAB. Now it's GratNin, this crazy accordion-folded story scroll, the next step of our ongoing work together (and part of the sort of nascent LAAB imprint). Ron has become more than an author, to us -- he's a friend and a partner, and his work is part of the DNA of Beehive.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207641\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin2.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin2\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\n\nWhen and how did you discover GratNin<\/em>? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nI just read it as a passionate follower of Ron's work. I'll read anything and everything he puts out. When I finally sat down to read the whole thing through several years ago, I just fell in -- it's full of such humor, excitement, suspense, humanity, love for its source material, love for its characters. And it has this wonderful feeling of being a huge world to roam around in. We follow the characters we follow, but there's this feeling that more intrigue is down every alleyway. It's just an outstanding comic and we're so excited to be publishing it. <\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the Kickstarter for the GratNin <\/em>graphic novel? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nGratNin presented an exciting and singular problem -- how to present this pageless digital comic in a print format.  As per our usual ideological commitments in Beehive, we came up with the least practical, most exciting solution -- to present these remarkable stories on a series of unbroken accordion-folded scrolls, turning the downward-swiping digital read into a thrillingly physical experience. You track down four hundred feet of narrow page-space, in a format that brings to mind skyscrapers, alleyways, subway tunnels -- all the long verticals iconically representing this fantastical vision of New York. And we filled the box with ephemera from this alternate reality -- metrocards and maps and furoshikis and trading cards, making up a whole enveloping experience, skulking around New York with then Namba clan.<\/span>\n\nWhat have been some of the hurdles that you have had to overcome to get the project up to this point?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThe biggest one was just figuring out how to present this story in a readable way. It's this pageless comic that goes down and down and down. How do you do it in print? That was the problem that we faced. It's the kind of problem that our team, and especially LAAB and GratNin designer Chloe Scheffe, find most delicious. I think it's been solved beautifully here.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207642\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin3.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin3\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\n\nWe understand that the graphic novel will be an accordion style with folded pages; was this feature something that you wanted to do right from the beginning? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nNo -- we started with the problem. We didn't know the best solution. We thought about doing it as a scroll, as a giant folding map, as a long vertical book with a spine at the top.  The accordion seemed the most elegant solution, especially for something so long -- we're talking about 600 pages, printed on three pieces of paper. It's the best at replicating and reinventing that feeling of falling down into this crazy thrilling world that you get from reading GratNin digitally.<\/span>\n\nBeehive Books is releasing the GratNin<\/em> graphic novel as a box set; can you tell us about the box set? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nWe took the next step, when designing GratNin as a fully formed reading experience -- we created a little miniature space to explore. We filled the box with ephemera from this alternate reality -- metrocards and maps and furoshikis and trading cards, making up a whole enveloping experience. A world for you to crawl into a skulk around. We didn\u2019t want to just present a print version of Ron\u2019s wonderful web comic \u2013 we wanted to work with him to reinvent it, and to build out his world.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207644\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin5.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin5\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\n\nAs you are crowdfunding the graphic novel and dealing directly with consumers, does that make the project more special for you?<\/strong> <\/span>\n\nWell, we crowdfund most of our projects, so it's not any different from what we usually do. But yes -- crowdfunding does mean a much deeper-than-average engagement with your audience, and we conceive of Beehive as something other than a producer of goods with a base of customers. We see our readership as a vital community, the backbone of this whole operation. They're keeping the garden cared for and the soil tilled, so we can grow the things we grow. Our practice of building books out of an engaged community of readers makes all of our projects feel a bit more special to me.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207643\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin4.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin4\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\n\nDo you have a favourite Kickstarter reward? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nBeyond the comic itself, I really love the printed cotton-cloth furoshiki wrap! I know I'll get a lot of use out of that... just a beautiful and useful object, which is all we ever really aim to make.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nBe kind to yourself. And buy GratNin! (These two go together quite nicely.)<\/span>\n\nWe would like to say thank you to Josh for chatting to us about <\/span>GratNin. <\/em><\/span>We would like to wish the whole team of GratNin<\/em> the best of luck.<\/span>\n\nFeel free to check out the<\/span><\/strong> campaign<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/beehivebooks\/gratnin?ref=6h1h34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> GranNin at<\/a><\/span><\/span><a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\"> Kickstater<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Josh O'Neill","post_excerpt":"GratNin\u00a0graphic novel","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-josh-oneill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:32:04","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:32:04","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207638","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207631,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-16 18:10:08","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-16 18:10:08","post_content":"Our very own Paula Wiseman is still covering what\u2019s going on at Diff. This time she got a chance to interview the director and cast members of Wolf.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207633\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wolf2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"wolf2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nNatalie Biancheri - Director<\/span> George Mackay - Jacob<\/span> Fionn O'Shea - Rufus<\/span> Lola Petticrew - Judith<\/span><\/p>\nBelieving he's a wolf trapped in a man's body, Jacob eats, sleeps and lives like one -- much to the shock of his family. When he's sent to a clinic, Jacob and his animal-bound peers are forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of curative therapies. However, once he meets the mysterious Wildcat,\u00a0their friendship blossoms into an undeniable infatuation, and Jacob must decide whether to renounce his true self for love.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-Wolf-e1fqghn\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dashboard\/episode\/e1fqghn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dashboard\/episode\/e1fqghn<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207636\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wolf3-707x1024.jpg\" alt=\"wolf3\" width=\"707\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of Wolf","post_excerpt":"George Mackay","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-wolf","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:33:52","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:33:52","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207631","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207592,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-10 16:46:35","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-10 16:46:35","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the writer, producer, director and cast members of The Feast<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207595\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast2-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\nA wealthy family has a dinner party at its home in the Welsh mountains, hosting a local businessman and farmer who hope to broker a business deal. A mysterious young woman arrives to be the family's waitress, and things begin to unravel.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207596\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDirector; Lee Haven Jones<\/span> Writer and Producer; Roger Williams<\/span> Annes Elwy - Cast member - Cadi<\/span> Nia Roberts - Cast member \u2013 Glenda<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207604\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast4-692x1024.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast4\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of The Feast","post_excerpt":"Lee Haven Jones","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-the-feast","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:44:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:44:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207592","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207575,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_content":"We are joined today by Irish filmmaker Adam William Cahill. Adam sat down with us to talk about his new film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Adam, it is so wonderful to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m an Irish filmmaker from Dublin, and the company director of Wild Stag Productions. I studied film production and earned my bachelor degree from the University of Wolverhampton. Straight out of college I decided to sink or swim as far as diving straight into the industry goes, and that\u2019s how I ended up making my first feature film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you tell us about the origins of <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nInitially it was a short film idea imagined by Luke Corcoran, the actor who would become the lead in the feature film. He wrote a short script about three flatmates in Dublin who come across a zombie in their apartment and comedic mayhem ensues. We were initially going to shoot that script, which was called Craic of the Dead (\u201ccraic\u201d being an Irish colloquialism for fun), but we ran into some problems along the way. This gave me the time to really meditate on the concept a while, and the thing that was really hooking me about the plot was that we were essentially telling a story about Irish Millennials, a very specific demographic, dealing with a problem that we haven\u2019t seen them challenged with before. I wondered what a generation engrossed in technology, surrounded by fake news, and basically more comfortable than any generation that came before it would react to such a perilous event. Luke was gracious enough to let me take the idea and go off and write something more expansive, which I did. And a hundred pages later I had written a story about a family of Millennials in the countryside town of Ferbane who hear that Dublin has been destroyed by the undead, but don\u2019t know what to believe, and don\u2019t necessarily feel responsible to do anything about it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HTG9a78M6Gk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nHow would you describe Follow the Dead?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a dark comedy about a man in his thirties, Robbie, who can\u2019t manage to find the love he\u2019s looking for in a Tinder-centric society, and only begins to realize what he\u2019s missing when his estranged wife comes back into his life. Unluckily for him, this reunion just so happens to take place right as the town is in a frenzy, divided over the mysterious news that Dublin is experiencing a blackout, and the prevailing theory is that zombies are the cause. To add insult to injury, Robbie has to take care of his wannabe-celebrity sister Liv, who\u2019s trying to use the events to boost her social media presence, and their stoner cousins Jay and Chi, who can\u2019t agree on a single thing. The result: comedy and mayhem.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the cast of Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI had the great privilege of working with some incredible actors for this film, who were honoured with a Best Ensemble Cast nomination from the Seattle Film Festival last year. The dramatic performances from Luke Corcoran, Marybeth Herron, and Cristina Ryan are so moving, and they really carry the weight of the themes surrounding sacrifice and responsibility within the film so incredibly well. I\u2019m so proud of what they brought to the story through their rawness and vulnerability. And then there\u2019s Luke Collins and Tadhg Devery as the stoner cousins who are just so insanely hilarious, in very distinct ways; Luke with his unique physicality, and Tadhg with his incredible turn-of-phrase. We\u2019ve been honoured with numerous Comedy Feature awards internationally, with Tadhg receiving a Best Supporting Actor award from the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival too. I\u2019m really indebted to them for being so impressive in that way, and I really love that the Irish sense of humour (not to mention the accents) has really translated to foreign audiences. Truth be told, we actually filmed Follow the Dead twice. The first time, without a budget, we shot about 60% of the script, but then came back to do it all again with a bigger crew and a pittance of funding later in the year. I did that because I was blown away by the performances from the cast, which really made me believe in them and in what we were creating. So yeah\u2026 That\u2019s how much faith and love I have for these incredible artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207581\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/adamwilliamcahill-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"adamwilliamcahill\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\nYou are the writer, producer and director on Follow the Dead<\/em>. That sounds like a huge amount of work on your shoulders; how did you manage all of these hats?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWell the whole process took so much longer than it should have because of the fact that I was juggling everything. We shot Follow the Dead in August 2017, and it wasn\u2019t ready for festivals until 2020. So it was a case of taking things step by step. This was also my first feature, so I was totally unaware of how mammoth the undertaking was going to be. But that helped in a way, because I wasn\u2019t concerned with how high the mountain was; I had no idea. So I just took each step as it came, learned on the fly, and thankfully it all worked out in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the writing process; what was it like for you?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWriting is one of the most arduous stages of development for me. I\u2019m a perfectionist, and I\u2019m a plotter; I need to know exactly where the story is going and all of the checkpoints along the way before I can get started. So before the script stage I have pages and pages and pages of notes, outlines, charts, and all sorts, and only when I can play the whole movie out visually in my head can I then sit down and write it. The only really improvisational aspect of the scripts I write is the dialogue, which I come up with as I\u2019m typing. Except for the jokes; 90% of them are planned ahead of time too. But I have to say that Follow the Dead<\/em> was the easiest script I\u2019ve written so far, purely because I had done so much meditating about it while we were planning the short film. So I have to thank Luke Corcoran for the inspiration for this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207582\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead1.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nHow did you go about finding the cast?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt was really organic. Luke was always going to play Robbie because I never diverged from that plan since the short film stage. I had worked with Marybeth Herron and Tadhg Devery on my final year student film Inertia<\/em>, and I knew they\u2019d be ideal for Liv and Chi respectively. From there, Tadhg introduced me to Cristina Ryan and Aidan O\u2019Sullivan when we were considering who would play the Garda\u00ed in the film, with the character of Kate also being Robbie\u2019s love interest, and they fit those characters like a glove. And then Luke recommended Luke Collins to play Jay, and Ian Anthony Lawless to play Zippy. They were both primarily theater actors at the time, but did an amazing job bringing that developed stage presence to the big screen. So as you can tell, it was very much a casting process based on relationships, which I think gave us that tight-knit familial connection on set that allowed us to work so well as a team to do what almost none of us had done before.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWas it a difficult task to find the technical crew that you needed to shoot the movie?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt wasn\u2019t difficult on the production side of things. I had seen the cinematography showreel of Stephen C. Walsh on social media somewhere, and I was incredibly impressed with his work. So I reached out to him with the pitch for the feature and he got on board very quickly after that. And we\u2019re tremendously blessed that he did. He was a one man film crew; doing all the camera work, the lighting, the rigging\u2026 He was a beast, and I really felt like I had a lieutenant with me going into battle in what was unfamiliar territory for me, but not at all for him. That was comforting to say the least. Post production was a lot more difficult a stage. I edited the film myself, so that was no problem. But getting a good sound designer and music composer was an ordeal. I was pulling my hair out looking for a sound designer who could take on the challenge; There were a lot of outdoor scenes where the recorded sound was inaudible, and we also needed a lot of effects sounds for the zombies and for the action scenes. After months of searching, I met a fellow filmmaker one evening who recommended Robin Sherry Wood to me, and after that it was smooth sailing. He did an incredible job, even down to creating bottom up sound design for entire scenes, such as the very first scene of the film where Robbie is on a date in the car. None of the audio in that scene was recorded on the day. The car engine, the dialogue, the sounds of motion, absolutely everything was put in in post by Robin, and no one seems to notice a thing when watching it. That\u2019s how good he is. And then with the music\u2026 All I\u2019ll say is\u2026 Just because you can create beautiful music doesn\u2019t mean you know how to score a movie. I went through ten music composers before I found someone who understood how to craft the music around the emotional beats within the scene. That someone is Steven McKenna of DRVN Pictures, and his work speaks for itself. I said I wanted three distinct motifs, and he nailed every one of them. Every now and then I\u2019ll listen to the love theme just for the pleasure of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207583\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead2.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"424\"><\/p>\nWhat was the biggest challenge you overcame when creating Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAside from the post production issues I mentioned, I think it was just the fear of going into the unknown. Especially for the massive cast sequences. Anyone can shoot a scene of two people talking. But shooting an action sequence in the middle of a forest where a horde of zombies are chasing your protagonists and a battle erupts\u2026 That\u2019s not an ordinary day on set. I had absolutely no idea if we\u2019d pull it off. But I knew that if we did, we\u2019d have done something amazing, we\u2019ll have grown as artists from the experience, and I trusted the people I had around me to be able to help me to get the job done. The rest is history. And because of this experience, I\u2019ll never make a movie where I don\u2019t attempt to do something that feels slightly beyond my ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nAre you happy with how the movie turned out?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m blown away by it. Watching the film and seeing what we accomplished, (which I believe is a cinema-quality, funny, emotional, Irish genre film,) never fails to make me feel emotional. And add to that the successful and ongoing festival run, in which we\u2019ve currently amassed 14 wins and 4 nominations, it\u2019s actually insane to think of where we started from and where we\u2019re at with it today. It\u2019s unbelievable.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207584\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead3.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead3\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nWhat has the feedback been like for Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe frustration for us at the moment is that, because of Covid, all of the festivals have been virtual so far, having to move to a digital format until things get back to normal. So although we\u2019ve won awards at practically every festival we\u2019ve screened at, we\u2019ve never seen an audience's reaction in the theater. So that\u2019s been tough, and we\u2019ve no idea how to gauge each individual aspect of the film as a result. We just know it\u2019s been extremely positive feedback on the whole. But we\u2019re looking forward to some live festivals coming up in the next few months, so\u2026 That\u2019s going to be a whole new experience for us. Excited isn\u2019t the word.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould we see more Follow the Dead<\/em> movies in the future?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe sequel is already written. And I sat down with the cast members in November for a script reading and we were falling around laughing. So yeah, we\u2019re hoping to get that one off the ground as soon as we can. And in my head the story is a trilogy. So let\u2019s see how far we get with it. But I love these characters so much; as much as I love working with the actors, so\u2026 I\u2019m totally committed to that journey if we can make it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nIf any of our readers wanted to get their eyes on Follow the Dead<\/em>, how can they do that?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe best thing to do is to follow us on our social media pages. We\u2019re @followthedeadmovie on Facebook and Instagram. (You can also check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">followthedead.com<\/a> if you want a really<\/em> deep dive into the making of the film including a Behind the Scenes documentary.) We\u2019re always posting about what\u2019s happening with the film regarding festivals, news, merchandise, stuff like that. But if you can\u2019t make it to a festival, there\u2019ll be news very soon about how you can catch the film online, exclusively on a brand new and exciting streaming service which will be launching very soon. So keep your eyes peeled for that one.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wz3JRdmLBsk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIf you\u2019ve made it this far into the interview, I sincerely from the bottom of my heart thank you for your interest. I really hope Follow the Dead tickles your fancy if you haven\u2019t yet seen it, and I hope you can check it out very soon. If you want to know what else I\u2019m doing outside of the realm of zombie flicks, my company is Wild Stag Productions. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using @wildstagmedia, or check out the official website at <a href=\"http:\/\/wildstagpoductions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildstagpoductions.com<\/a>. We\u2019re a media company that specializes in making Irish genre films. I basically want to make Irish versions of all my favourite genres, including a Western which I\u2019m writing at the moment. So yeah\u2026 thank you all for your time, and I hope you join us for the next part of our journey!<\/span><\/p>\nA big thank you to Adam for sitting and chatting with us; we wish him the best of luck with his film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.followthedead.com<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a><\/p>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Adam William Cahill","post_excerpt":"Follow the Dead","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-adam-william-cahill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:51:19","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:51:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207575","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207564,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the producers and directors of\u00a0<\/span>Young Plato, a\u00a0<\/span><\/em>documentary set in post-conflict Belfast.<\/span><\/p>\nAn observational documentary set in post-conflict Belfast\u2019s Ardoyne, where a marginalized, working-class community has for generations been plagued by poverty, drugs and guns. This film charts the dream of Headmaster Kevin McArevey and his dedicated visionary team, illustrating how critical thinking and pastoral care can empower and encourage children to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of their own community. We see how philosophy can encourage them to question the mythologies of war and of violence, and challenge the narratives of their community.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207571\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDavid Rane - Producer<\/span><\/p>\nNeasa Ni Chianain - Director<\/span><\/p>\nDeclan McGrath -<\/span> Co-Producer\/Director\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nKevin McArevey - Principal in the school<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207572\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato2-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato2\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207569\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato4.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/p>","post_title":"Young Plato Interviews","post_excerpt":"David Rane","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"young-plato-interviews","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:53:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:53:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207514,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by the writer and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. The very talented Mr Cadwell has worked on numerous comics. Some of the comics he has worked on include: Nelson<\/em>, Lovecraft Anthology 2<\/em>, Sold State Tank Girl<\/em>, Samuari Jack<\/em>, Dangeritis<\/em>, Helena Crash<\/em> and Mr. Higgins Comes Home<\/em>.<\/span>\n\nHi Warwick, happy new year to you. It's a pleasure to have you here with us. <\/span><\/strong>As some of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nHello, and Happy New Year! <\/em>Falconspeare is my third book with Dark Horse comics and Mike Mignola, but before then came<\/em> Samurai Jack, Helena Crash, The Marionette Unit, Dangeritis, and Tank Girl. But aside from comics I have worked for publishers and in the animation industry. I\u2019m just a very enthusiastic drawer\/drawist.<\/em><\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the origins of Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nFalconspeare is the third book in a sort of series (at this stage they can still be read in any order) following the adventures of a group of vampire hunters of old. In this book we discover they shared their formative years with a fourth member,<\/em> James Falconspeare, and here we discover what has happened to him since the group last met many years before.<\/em><\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207518\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp1-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp1\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nHow would you describe the Falconspeare<\/em> graphic novel?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nIt\u2019s a vampire adventure of sorts. These books revel in the classic horror worlds <\/span>of Universal Studios and Hammer Horror, but have their own flavor too. They\u2019re <\/span><\/em>also inspired by Mike Mignola, who wrote the first book,<\/em> Mr. Higgins Comes Home. I <\/em><\/span>have tried to maintain a level of humor in there, too. But this is the darkest book of the three, I think.<\/span><\/em>\n\nFor our readers who are not familiar with Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan. What can you tell us about these characters?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThese are classic vampire adventurers, like Van Helsing or Professor Abronsius. <\/span>Professor Meinhardt is an academic expert in the supernatural, and Mr. Knox is a <\/span>compassionate and careful force for good. Ms. Mary Van Sloan is a spirited fighting <\/span>force. They\u2019re all enthusiastic and brave, but also pretty lucky in a world where the <\/span>forces of evil command a strong upper hand. And in this book we find that James <\/span>Falconspeare is the honorable, law-abiding champion of the group.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207519\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp2-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp2\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhen you were creating the graphic novel, did you write a full script?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI did, eventually. I\u2019m an artist mainly, and very interested in narrative. My process for the last two books was to firstly work out the story in sketches and thumbnails to <\/span>determine what I wanted to do. Then I turned that into a script, which I then redrew as roughs. The two sets of roughs either side of the script aren\u2019t easy to compare., <\/span>however, as the first is spread over many sketchbooks in many sizes and qualities over the course of a few years.<\/span><\/em>\n\nYou are the writer and artist on Falconspeare<\/em>; what do you enjoy being more a writer or an artist?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAn artist I think, but that\u2019s mainly because I\u2019m more comfortable with that aspect. I love getting to grips with writing, and I really enjoy working with word and images to create stories. I like working with writers very much, but I\u2019m really enjoying being in charge of both the script and art to model the stories.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207520\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp3-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nDo you have a favourite character from Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAh! That\u2019s tricky, because I like them all. The main three we\u2019ve already met in the other books get a chance to develop or reaffirm their characters, which is nice. But getting to introduce new characters is great, and there\u2019s plenty in this. There\u2019s a brief appearance from Meinhardt, Knox, and Sloan\u2019s very grumpy butler (Mr. Tuphold). He\u2019s only in a<\/span>couple of panels, but he makes me laugh, and I think he could be a great character in future. Such an angry old character.<\/span><\/em>\n\nCould we see more of Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan in the future?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI certainly hope so, though I\u2019ve got away with a lot so far. Drawing these books is <\/span>amazing fun, and every page throws up more ideas for more stories to tell. So, I hope we get to follow their crazy adventures further.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207521\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp4-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp4\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhat are you currently reading?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nMy reading goes all over the place, often a long way behind. And in that spirit, \u201cAcheron\u201d by Mike Mignola at Dark Horse was ace! Steeple by John Allison, too. I love that series. Kyle Starks and Chris Schweitzer\u2019s<\/em> 6 Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton (Image) was also awesome! Other than that, I\u2019m mainly rereading<\/em> The Tomb Of Dracula or<\/em> Dracula Lives.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nTry out Falconspeare? Follow me for art if they\u2019re keen on Instagram @wocco or <\/em><\/span>on Twitter @warwickjc.<\/em> But mainly I\u2019d encourage ComicBuzz readers to get drawing\/ reading or making. Anything. It\u2019s awesome fun.<\/em><\/span>\n\nA big thank you to Warwick Johnson-Cadwell for taking the time to chat with us. We would like to wish him and his team the best of luck with Falconspeare.<\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Warwick Johnson-Cadwell","post_excerpt":"Falconspeare","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-warwick-johnson-cadwell","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:04:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:04:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207514","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207445,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_content":"With the second issue of the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series out next week from Dark Horse Comics, we are so delighted to be joined by the co-writer of the comic, Rob Williams. Rob Williams has written numerous titles. Some of the titles he has worked on include\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>, Suicide Squad<\/em>,\u00a0Trinity<\/em>,\u00a0Action Comics<\/em>,\u00a0Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>,\u00a0Judge Dredd<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Rob, happy new year to you; it's great to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\nWe have been fans of your work ever since we read\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nThanks! Good memories!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did you get involved with the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019d just done a creepy gangsters-haunted-by-ghosts creator-owned book called Old Haunts\u00a0<\/em>via AWA Studios with Laurence Campbell. Laurence drew\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0for Mike Mignola and Dark Horse for a number of years, and had been talking to Mike and the guys about doing a Gall Dennar barbarian story. He asked if I\u2019d be interested in coming on to write the book, and I think the Hellboy team liked\u00a0Old Haunts<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat made you want to be a part of the Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0<\/em>miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWorking with Laurence is always a treat. He\u2019s brilliant, and one of my best friends. Working with Mike Mignola in the Hellboy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0world? Who wouldn\u2019t want to do that? I\u2019ve enjoyed those comics for the past couple of decades. It\u2019s a treat to be involved in that universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207448\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_1-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_1\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nHow would you describe the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe sword is an important weapon in the end times of the Hellboy\/B.P.R.D. story. It\u2019s a mythical blade much like Excalibur. Our series spans thousands of years and shows you four very different heroes who held the sword at various points before passing it on, allowing us to tell very Hellboy<\/em>-world tales in a Robert E. Howard-like barbarian landscape. Additionally we'll see stories set in World War I, World War II and finally the electric blues scene of Chicago in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series takes place in the world of\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>;\u00a0is the series new reader-friendly?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: We hope so. We\u2019ve certainly tried to make that the case. We had no interest in a big exposition-fest or historical tract. If you know the major points on the\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>\u00a0map, you\u2019ll get a kick out of the references. But really we have four heroes here, three of whom are brand new, and we want to send them on a journey and care about what happens to them. In introducing three new players who don\u2019t know the key facts of this world, readers are really in the same position as them, fighting against an evil they don\u2019t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207449\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_2-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_2\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nWhat is it like writing with Mike Mignola?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA treat, as I said. I\u2019ve been a fan for years. It\u2019s intimidating too, because Mike\u2019s one of the best writers we\u2019ve had in comics, and the level of people he collaborates with is extraordinarily high. But he was very welcoming and a great sounding board for Laurence and me. Mike had a plot in mind for Gall Dennar in issue #1, which we built out from. Then it was a case of a few Zoom calls discussing the world, and Mike leading us to a few places we should probably go. It was a really enjoyable experience.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe rest of the team for\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0consists of Laurence Campbell, Quinton Winter, Clem Robins and Dave Stewart. Were they already a part of the team when you joined the series?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nLaurence was onboard before me, yes. And then I think Laurence suggested colorist Quinton Winter, who lives near him. They know each other. Quinton coloured Unfollow<\/em>, a book of mine from Vertigo a few years ago, which Clem Robins also lettered. Small world. Dave Stewart had coloured Laurence's work on his B.P.R.D.<\/em> run, so he colored our covers.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhen you saw the art from Laurence Campbell and Quinton Winter, what did you think?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: I\u2019m very aware of what Laurence can do, having worked with him so often. He\u2019s a master of mood on the page, a brilliant storyteller. We wanted issue #1 to be an epic Terrence Malick-like quest across this incredible landscape from thousands of years ago, with evil priests, woolly mammoths, immense mountain ranges, and the odd pterodactyl. Laurence and Quinton have brought all that to such vivid life here.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207450\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_3-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_3\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nDo you have a favourite scene from the first issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: Gall Dennar, having been alone on his quest for years and sitting by a fire in the mountains, tripping on some barbarian concoction, calls out to his love from thousands of years in the future and a giant wolf spirit comes to talk to him. Laurence and Quinton did a phenomenal job there. It really feels magical.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell us about the second issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWe move the action through the Victorian London of Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder<\/em>\u00a0to the first ever zeppelin attacks on London, and then to Belgium in the First World War. A German agent called Graf Ling de Gotha is given a mission to find a cult that is undertaking strange ceremonies nearby, trying to summon something unnatural into the world\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207453\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_4-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_4\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can follow my work on Twitter @Robwilliams71 on Instagram on @Robwilliams1971 and on my website<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0Thanks!<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say thank you to Rob for his time and wish him and the team the best of luck with their series.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Rob Williams","post_excerpt":"\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-rob-williams","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:09:48","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:09:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207445","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207361,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_content":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Paula Wiseman chatted with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh about some of his upcoming movie and TV projects, and also about some of his amazing past work, including roles in 'Scorpion', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and 'Transformers - Age of Extinction<\/span>'.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Paula-Wiseman-chats-with-LA-based-Irish-actor--Glenn-Keogh-e1c0li4\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nIrish American actor\u00a0Glenn Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0appears on television twice the same week emerging December 3rd on the CBS action series\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the HBO hit comedy\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on December 5th. Keogh follows that up by heading to the big screen in the Marvel franchise film,\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em><\/strong>, releasing in theaters on December 17th.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the upcoming \u201cA Fire in the Ashes\u201d episode of\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em>, Keogh steps into the action as Parkes, when Magnum (Jay Hernandez) starts following Higgins (Perdita Weeks), who has been secretly assigned to infiltrate a group threatening to take down MI-6.<\/span><\/p>\r\nSwitching gears and going for laughs, Keogh enters into the acclaimed Larry David comedy series,\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em>, during the episode \u201cIrma Kostroski.\u201d The semi-improvised storyline is being kept under wraps, but revolves around Larry\u2019s latest predicament at work.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAudiences can also catch Keogh in theaters everywhere as part of the latest adventure facing Marvel\u2019s web-spinning superhero in\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em>. Directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man, whose identity now revealed, forces Peter into asking Doctor Strange for help.<\/span><\/p>\r\nKeogh is thrilled to have not one, not two, but three roles hitting screens in December, adding \u201cI was truly blessed to get to work my acting chops this year across these roles, in Honolulu, Atlanta and Los Angeles. All very different characters and a ton of fun to get to play in the Marvel, Curb and Magnum worlds! Excited to see them play out on screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFans will recall Keogh from his first Marvel adventure as the mischievous alien \u2018TROK\u2019 from\u00a0<\/em>Season 6 of ABC\u2019s beloved series,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. He also gained attention for starring alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Atkins in the sci-fi indie feature film,\u00a0Encounter,\u00a0<\/em>and for appearing in Michael Bay\u2019s blockbuster action film,\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Keogh proved a standout as King Fergus on ABC\u2019s fairytale fantasy drama,\u00a0Once Upon a\u00a0<\/em>Time, and recurring as Sean O\u2019Brien, father of Walter (Elyes Gabel), on the CBS drama,\u00a0Scorpion<\/em>. Keogh has worked all over the world in film and television projects including prominent roles in\u00a0Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan, The O.A., Criminal Minds, NCIS, Castle, Undercovers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0New Girl.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Paula Wiseman chats with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh","post_excerpt":"LA based Irish actor","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"paula-wiseman-chats-with-la-based-irish-actor-glenn-keogh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:31:21","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:31:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207361","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207274,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_content":"With the release of his first novel,\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em> we are delighted to be joined by the multi-talented Dave Thomas. Dave is not only an actor but a comedian, writer, producer and director. We got a chance to sit down and chat with Dave bout his novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nSome of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can find out who I am by looking at my website<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davethomas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0davethomas.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0But here is a short rundown of some of the things I have done, pulled from my biography:<\/span><\/p>\nThough new to writing books, I have done every type of television in every capacity, from sketch comedy and sitcoms to reality and game shows, animation and one hour drama. I started his career in comedy, as a writer\/performer for the Emmy Award-winning NBC sketch comedy show\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. I co-wrote the movie\u00a0Spies Like Us<\/em>\u00a0with Dan Aykroyd and directed and co-wrote the MGM cult classic\u00a0Strange Brew\u00a0<\/em>with Rick Moranis. I wrote and performed on a Grammy Award nominated album for Polygram with Rick. I directed\u00a0The Experts<\/em>\u00a0starring John Travolta for Paramount. I was executive produced and starred in my own comedy series for CBS,\u00a0the Dave Thomas Show<\/em>. From 1993 to 1998, i wrote for and co-starred in 115 episodes of the ABC sitcom\u00a0Grace Under Fire<\/em>. While working on that show I created a game show called\u00a0Family Challenge<\/em>\u00a0and produced 144 episodes for the Family Channel. My company Maple Palm Productions produced movies for Fox and HBO \u2013 most notably\u00a0Ambushed\u00a0<\/em>(Courtney Vance, Virginia Masden, William Forsythe and Robert Patrick). I co-created and executive produced\u00a0America\u2019s Funniest People\u00a0<\/em>(ABC) with Vin DiBona and I was executive producer of\u00a0the<\/em> Dennis Miller Show<\/em>\u00a0for Tribune. In 2001, I founded an animation company called Animax Entertainment and produced animation series for ABC (Slacker Cats<\/em>), ESPN (Off Mikes<\/em>), and MTV (Popzilla and Big Box<\/em>) and Global television in Canada (Bob and Doug<\/em>). I won my second Emmy Award for Animax\u2019s ESPN show\u00a0\u201cOff Mikes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in 2006. Lured into drama writing by his pal, Hart Hanson, Dave wrote a spec script for\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Fox) that was produced in 2008 and then Hart asked Dave to join the writing staff of\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0for more than 50 episodes as a Consulting Producer. After three years with Bones, I was asked to join the writing staff of NBC\u2019s the\u00a0Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0also as a consulting producer. This year, along with the cast of SCTV, I produced a reunion show called\u00a0An Afternoon with SCTV<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix directed by Martin Scorcese. Currently, I am writing his second book entitled\u00a0The Perfect Life<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDid you always want to write a novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNo, writing a novel is something I didn\u2019t really think about until a couple of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat are some of the novels that you enjoy?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMy two favorite novels are\u00a0What Dreams May Come<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Matheson and\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Josh Bazell. I am now and always have been a fan of all of Max Allan Collin\u2019s work \u2013 especially his historical fictions\u00a0The Titanic Murders<\/em>,\u00a0Flying Blind<\/em>and\u00a0Ask Not<\/em>.\u00a0And my pal, Hart Hanson write a book called\u00a0The Driver<\/em>\u00a0which I really enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy Leighton started out as a pitch for a television series. I became frustrated with the lack of response and started writing it as a novel. After writing three chapters, I put it aside and continued with more TV work. Max Allan Collins read those three chapters and he encouraged me to write more. Max is a very generous person and he offered to help me get a book agent and a publisher. And then he said, \u201cBut what I\u2019d rather do is write it with you.\u201d Well, Max is a renowned mystery writer who has written more than 100 novels. I had written none. So I would have to be an idiot not to take him up on an offer like that. The truth is, even though I started the book without him, I probably would never have finished it if Max hadn\u2019t written it with me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nYou co-wrote\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton\u00a0with Max Allan Collins; how did that come about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA mutual friend, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), introduced Max and I at San Diego\u2019s Comicon. Max and I met in person there very briefly but hit it off and continued the friendship by phone even though Max is in Muscatine Iowa, and I am in Los Angeles. Of particular note: this is a COVID collaboration \u2013 Max and I were never in the same room for one second of the writing. It was all done on phone and Zoom calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBefore Max got involved, had you started to write the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYes, I wrote three chapters on my own, but only the Many Worlds sci-fi part. The mystery thread was not part of my original conception. That\u2019s something Max and I came up with after we started working on the book together.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow would you describe\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very strange little sci fi mystery thriller. It\u2019s a mix of police detective work and the theoretical ideas in quantum physics. The book tells the story of a small-time thief (Jimmy Leighton) who flees South Boston to escape from a Vietnamese gangster. Hiding out in Cambridge, Jimmy needs money and breaks into the house of a M.I.T. Physicist who happens to be running a quantum experiment in his basement based on the work of Princeton Physicist Hugh Everett III. Nosey little Jimmy connects the wrong outlet to the wrong cable from a stack of quantum batteries and finds himself transported to another version of his life 1000 miles away in Chicago. And that is only the beginning of his adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell about Jimmy Leighton?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy is not the sharpest tool in the shed when the book starts out but the experience of living several versions of his life is kind of a quantum school. Jimmy finally figures it out and finds a way to get what he needs to be happy. He was an orphan from South Boston who bounced around in foster homes the social service\u2019s system. Abused by at least two foster fathers, Jimmy ran away and hit the streets, becoming a homeless panhandler at the age of 12. But he had incredible street smarts and managed to survive, dodging the law and other homeless folk who preyed upon kids like him. He started robbing houses when he was 14 and became a seriously successful second story man, respected by many in the Boston crime community.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did NeoText end up publishing the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMax had the connection to NeoText because he had written a book with them before he met me. And Max made the deal for the book. I knew it would be a difficult sell because it\u2019s a cross-genre book. It\u2019s a sci-fi and it\u2019s a detective mystery thriller. A lot of publishers won\u2019t take a chance on cross-genre. They worry that their readers won\u2019t understand it. Or that they may become frightened reading the book because it does not stay within the preconceived expectations they had for it. But John Schoenfelder at Neo Text is a very open-minded man. And he\u2019s very supportive of his artists \u2013 that\u2019s what he calls us. No one in my 40 years working for television and film ever called me an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat was it like co-writing with Max Allan Collins?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI was surprised by how much Max and I have in common. I was familiar with some of his work, but the fact is, he has written so many books that, to be aware of them all, would\u2019ve been impossible. For example, I\u2019m a historical student of the Titanic disaster but Max actually wrote a book about a fictitious murder that takes place on that fateful voyage. To write a novel where you play out the action onboard that ship necessitated doing an incredible amount of research. So, Max and I were able to swap stories on that. Same thing with the Kennedy Assassination. And a lot of other things. We became fast friends during our collaboration writing this book. And there\u2019s no better way to get to know someone than working together on a book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFay Dalton created a lovely illustration for\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton;\u00a0was that her composition, or did you suggest ideas for it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s definitely her composition. We gave her some suggestions, but it was Faye who came up with the actual cover for the book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping ComicBuzz readers like this book. I think it definitely conforms to the comic book style of writing. Both Max and I think very visually, and I believe we painted word pictures for our readers that they will enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say a big thank you to Dave for taking the time to chat with us and we wish him and Max the best of luck with their novel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Dave Thomas","post_excerpt":"The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-dave-thomas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:32:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:32:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207274","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":16},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_22"};</script></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-4e19fa1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-epic_archive_pagination_elementor" data-id="4e19fa1" data-element_type="widget" data-e-type="widget" data-widget_type="epic_archive_pagination_elementor.default"><div class="elementor-widget-container"><div class="jeg_navigation jeg_pagination jeg_pagenav_1 jeg_aligncenter no_pageinfo"> Page 16 of 32 <a class="page_nav prev" data-id="15" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/">Previous</a> <a class='page_number' data-id='1' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/'>1</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='15' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/15/'>15</a> 16 <a class='page_number' data-id='17' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/'>17</a> … <a class='page_number' data-id='32' href='https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/32/'>32</a> <a class="page_nav next" data-id="17" href="https://comicbuzz.com/category/featured/page/17/">Next</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></section> \n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Alek Shrader","post_excerpt":"Carmen: The Graphic Novel","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-alek-shrader","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:21:31","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:21:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207681","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207663,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-21 14:47:13","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-21 14:47:13","post_content":"Our very own Paula Wiseman attended Dublin Comic-Con on Saturday 11th<\/sup> this year. She got a chance to interview some of the guests attending the event; she caught up with the actors Kevin McNally, Daniel Moncada and Luis Moncada.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207666\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dublincomiccon2022_1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"dublincomiccon2022_1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nKevin McNally is an English actor and writer. He is known for portraying Joshamee Gibbs in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.<\/span><\/p>\nDaniel and Luis Moncada are Honduran-American actors and brothers known for their role as \"The Cousins\" Leonel and Marco Salamanca on the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2010) and its spin-off Better Call Saul (2016; 2018\u2013present).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-Dublin-Comic-Con-2022-e1g1euc\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-Dublin-Comic-Con-2022-e1g1euc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-Dublin-Comic-Con-2022-e1g1euc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"Interviews from Dublin Comic-Con 2022","post_excerpt":"English actor and writer","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-dublin-comic-con-2022","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:26:07","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:26:07","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207663","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207656,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-18 15:39:27","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-18 15:39:27","post_content":"For our last red carpet interview at Diff, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview director Jono Mcleod and cast member Alan Cumming from the My Old School movie.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207658\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/myoldschool1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"myoldschool1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\r\nIn 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years became the stuff of legend.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0<\/a><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207657\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/myoldschool-631x1024.jpg\" alt=\"myoldschool\" width=\"631\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\r\nMy Old School<\/b><\/i> is a documentary directed by Jono McLeod on the subject of the Brandon Lee scandal.<\/span><\/p>","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish Gala screening of My Old School","post_excerpt":"Alan Cumming","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-gala-screening-of-my-old-school","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:26:45","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:26:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207656","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207638,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-03-17 14:06:06","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-17 14:06:06","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by Josh O'Neill today. Josh is publisher and co-founder of Beehive Books. As Beehive Books have launched a Kickstarter this week for the GratNin<\/em> graphic novel by Ronald Wimberly, we got a chance to sit down and chat with the editor of the graphic novel.<\/span>\n\nHi Josh, it's a pleasure to have you here with us.<\/span><\/strong>\n\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers and tell us about Beehive Books? Hello! I'm the publisher and co-founder of Beehive, a small-press graphic arts outfit based out of Philadelphia. We sometimes describe our project as an exercise in the possible -- we want to test the boundaries of what a book can be, and what kind of creative work we can produce. With inventive formats, visionary art and writing, and an utterly obsessive approach to design, we aim to build paper worlds. We have titles from Brecht Evens, Mike Mignola, Yuko Shimizu, Jim Woodring, Paul Pope, Bill Sienkiewicz, Ronald Wimberly, Rebekka Dunlap, Kent Williams and more. GratNin is our fourth project with Ronald.<\/span>\n\nHow did this collaboration between Ronald Wimberly and Beehive Books come about? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nI've worked with Ron several times as a contributor to books for my previous publishing venture, Locust Moon Press. So when Ma\u00eblle Doliveux and I launched Beehive in 2016, I knew Ron personally, and admired his work to no end. When Ma\u00eblle and I began approaching authors, our basic pitch was: what's a project that you think no publisher would take on? Ron, who for my money is one of the true visionary working artists of the 21st century, was literally the first person we approached. The answer then was LAAB Magazine, an experimental broadsheet art newspaper powered by the radical imagination -- we've since released three annual issues of LAAB. Now it's GratNin, this crazy accordion-folded story scroll, the next step of our ongoing work together (and part of the sort of nascent LAAB imprint). Ron has become more than an author, to us -- he's a friend and a partner, and his work is part of the DNA of Beehive.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207641\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin2.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin2\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\n\nWhen and how did you discover GratNin<\/em>? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nI just read it as a passionate follower of Ron's work. I'll read anything and everything he puts out. When I finally sat down to read the whole thing through several years ago, I just fell in -- it's full of such humor, excitement, suspense, humanity, love for its source material, love for its characters. And it has this wonderful feeling of being a huge world to roam around in. We follow the characters we follow, but there's this feeling that more intrigue is down every alleyway. It's just an outstanding comic and we're so excited to be publishing it. <\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the Kickstarter for the GratNin <\/em>graphic novel? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nGratNin presented an exciting and singular problem -- how to present this pageless digital comic in a print format.  As per our usual ideological commitments in Beehive, we came up with the least practical, most exciting solution -- to present these remarkable stories on a series of unbroken accordion-folded scrolls, turning the downward-swiping digital read into a thrillingly physical experience. You track down four hundred feet of narrow page-space, in a format that brings to mind skyscrapers, alleyways, subway tunnels -- all the long verticals iconically representing this fantastical vision of New York. And we filled the box with ephemera from this alternate reality -- metrocards and maps and furoshikis and trading cards, making up a whole enveloping experience, skulking around New York with then Namba clan.<\/span>\n\nWhat have been some of the hurdles that you have had to overcome to get the project up to this point?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThe biggest one was just figuring out how to present this story in a readable way. It's this pageless comic that goes down and down and down. How do you do it in print? That was the problem that we faced. It's the kind of problem that our team, and especially LAAB and GratNin designer Chloe Scheffe, find most delicious. I think it's been solved beautifully here.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207642\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin3.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin3\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\n\nWe understand that the graphic novel will be an accordion style with folded pages; was this feature something that you wanted to do right from the beginning? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nNo -- we started with the problem. We didn't know the best solution. We thought about doing it as a scroll, as a giant folding map, as a long vertical book with a spine at the top.  The accordion seemed the most elegant solution, especially for something so long -- we're talking about 600 pages, printed on three pieces of paper. It's the best at replicating and reinventing that feeling of falling down into this crazy thrilling world that you get from reading GratNin digitally.<\/span>\n\nBeehive Books is releasing the GratNin<\/em> graphic novel as a box set; can you tell us about the box set? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nWe took the next step, when designing GratNin as a fully formed reading experience -- we created a little miniature space to explore. We filled the box with ephemera from this alternate reality -- metrocards and maps and furoshikis and trading cards, making up a whole enveloping experience. A world for you to crawl into a skulk around. We didn\u2019t want to just present a print version of Ron\u2019s wonderful web comic \u2013 we wanted to work with him to reinvent it, and to build out his world.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207644\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin5.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin5\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\n\nAs you are crowdfunding the graphic novel and dealing directly with consumers, does that make the project more special for you?<\/strong> <\/span>\n\nWell, we crowdfund most of our projects, so it's not any different from what we usually do. But yes -- crowdfunding does mean a much deeper-than-average engagement with your audience, and we conceive of Beehive as something other than a producer of goods with a base of customers. We see our readership as a vital community, the backbone of this whole operation. They're keeping the garden cared for and the soil tilled, so we can grow the things we grow. Our practice of building books out of an engaged community of readers makes all of our projects feel a bit more special to me.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207643\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin4.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin4\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\n\nDo you have a favourite Kickstarter reward? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nBeyond the comic itself, I really love the printed cotton-cloth furoshiki wrap! I know I'll get a lot of use out of that... just a beautiful and useful object, which is all we ever really aim to make.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nBe kind to yourself. And buy GratNin! (These two go together quite nicely.)<\/span>\n\nWe would like to say thank you to Josh for chatting to us about <\/span>GratNin. <\/em><\/span>We would like to wish the whole team of GratNin<\/em> the best of luck.<\/span>\n\nFeel free to check out the<\/span><\/strong> campaign<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/beehivebooks\/gratnin?ref=6h1h34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> GranNin at<\/a><\/span><\/span><a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\"> Kickstater<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Josh O'Neill","post_excerpt":"GratNin\u00a0graphic novel","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-josh-oneill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:32:04","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:32:04","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207638","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207631,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-16 18:10:08","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-16 18:10:08","post_content":"Our very own Paula Wiseman is still covering what\u2019s going on at Diff. This time she got a chance to interview the director and cast members of Wolf.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207633\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wolf2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"wolf2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nNatalie Biancheri - Director<\/span> George Mackay - Jacob<\/span> Fionn O'Shea - Rufus<\/span> Lola Petticrew - Judith<\/span><\/p>\nBelieving he's a wolf trapped in a man's body, Jacob eats, sleeps and lives like one -- much to the shock of his family. When he's sent to a clinic, Jacob and his animal-bound peers are forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of curative therapies. However, once he meets the mysterious Wildcat,\u00a0their friendship blossoms into an undeniable infatuation, and Jacob must decide whether to renounce his true self for love.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-Wolf-e1fqghn\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dashboard\/episode\/e1fqghn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dashboard\/episode\/e1fqghn<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207636\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wolf3-707x1024.jpg\" alt=\"wolf3\" width=\"707\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of Wolf","post_excerpt":"George Mackay","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-wolf","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:33:52","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:33:52","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207631","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207592,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-10 16:46:35","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-10 16:46:35","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the writer, producer, director and cast members of The Feast<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207595\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast2-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\nA wealthy family has a dinner party at its home in the Welsh mountains, hosting a local businessman and farmer who hope to broker a business deal. A mysterious young woman arrives to be the family's waitress, and things begin to unravel.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207596\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDirector; Lee Haven Jones<\/span> Writer and Producer; Roger Williams<\/span> Annes Elwy - Cast member - Cadi<\/span> Nia Roberts - Cast member \u2013 Glenda<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207604\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast4-692x1024.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast4\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of The Feast","post_excerpt":"Lee Haven Jones","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-the-feast","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:44:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:44:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207592","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207575,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_content":"We are joined today by Irish filmmaker Adam William Cahill. Adam sat down with us to talk about his new film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Adam, it is so wonderful to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m an Irish filmmaker from Dublin, and the company director of Wild Stag Productions. I studied film production and earned my bachelor degree from the University of Wolverhampton. Straight out of college I decided to sink or swim as far as diving straight into the industry goes, and that\u2019s how I ended up making my first feature film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you tell us about the origins of <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nInitially it was a short film idea imagined by Luke Corcoran, the actor who would become the lead in the feature film. He wrote a short script about three flatmates in Dublin who come across a zombie in their apartment and comedic mayhem ensues. We were initially going to shoot that script, which was called Craic of the Dead (\u201ccraic\u201d being an Irish colloquialism for fun), but we ran into some problems along the way. This gave me the time to really meditate on the concept a while, and the thing that was really hooking me about the plot was that we were essentially telling a story about Irish Millennials, a very specific demographic, dealing with a problem that we haven\u2019t seen them challenged with before. I wondered what a generation engrossed in technology, surrounded by fake news, and basically more comfortable than any generation that came before it would react to such a perilous event. Luke was gracious enough to let me take the idea and go off and write something more expansive, which I did. And a hundred pages later I had written a story about a family of Millennials in the countryside town of Ferbane who hear that Dublin has been destroyed by the undead, but don\u2019t know what to believe, and don\u2019t necessarily feel responsible to do anything about it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HTG9a78M6Gk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nHow would you describe Follow the Dead?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a dark comedy about a man in his thirties, Robbie, who can\u2019t manage to find the love he\u2019s looking for in a Tinder-centric society, and only begins to realize what he\u2019s missing when his estranged wife comes back into his life. Unluckily for him, this reunion just so happens to take place right as the town is in a frenzy, divided over the mysterious news that Dublin is experiencing a blackout, and the prevailing theory is that zombies are the cause. To add insult to injury, Robbie has to take care of his wannabe-celebrity sister Liv, who\u2019s trying to use the events to boost her social media presence, and their stoner cousins Jay and Chi, who can\u2019t agree on a single thing. The result: comedy and mayhem.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the cast of Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI had the great privilege of working with some incredible actors for this film, who were honoured with a Best Ensemble Cast nomination from the Seattle Film Festival last year. The dramatic performances from Luke Corcoran, Marybeth Herron, and Cristina Ryan are so moving, and they really carry the weight of the themes surrounding sacrifice and responsibility within the film so incredibly well. I\u2019m so proud of what they brought to the story through their rawness and vulnerability. And then there\u2019s Luke Collins and Tadhg Devery as the stoner cousins who are just so insanely hilarious, in very distinct ways; Luke with his unique physicality, and Tadhg with his incredible turn-of-phrase. We\u2019ve been honoured with numerous Comedy Feature awards internationally, with Tadhg receiving a Best Supporting Actor award from the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival too. I\u2019m really indebted to them for being so impressive in that way, and I really love that the Irish sense of humour (not to mention the accents) has really translated to foreign audiences. Truth be told, we actually filmed Follow the Dead twice. The first time, without a budget, we shot about 60% of the script, but then came back to do it all again with a bigger crew and a pittance of funding later in the year. I did that because I was blown away by the performances from the cast, which really made me believe in them and in what we were creating. So yeah\u2026 That\u2019s how much faith and love I have for these incredible artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207581\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/adamwilliamcahill-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"adamwilliamcahill\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\nYou are the writer, producer and director on Follow the Dead<\/em>. That sounds like a huge amount of work on your shoulders; how did you manage all of these hats?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWell the whole process took so much longer than it should have because of the fact that I was juggling everything. We shot Follow the Dead in August 2017, and it wasn\u2019t ready for festivals until 2020. So it was a case of taking things step by step. This was also my first feature, so I was totally unaware of how mammoth the undertaking was going to be. But that helped in a way, because I wasn\u2019t concerned with how high the mountain was; I had no idea. So I just took each step as it came, learned on the fly, and thankfully it all worked out in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the writing process; what was it like for you?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWriting is one of the most arduous stages of development for me. I\u2019m a perfectionist, and I\u2019m a plotter; I need to know exactly where the story is going and all of the checkpoints along the way before I can get started. So before the script stage I have pages and pages and pages of notes, outlines, charts, and all sorts, and only when I can play the whole movie out visually in my head can I then sit down and write it. The only really improvisational aspect of the scripts I write is the dialogue, which I come up with as I\u2019m typing. Except for the jokes; 90% of them are planned ahead of time too. But I have to say that Follow the Dead<\/em> was the easiest script I\u2019ve written so far, purely because I had done so much meditating about it while we were planning the short film. So I have to thank Luke Corcoran for the inspiration for this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207582\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead1.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nHow did you go about finding the cast?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt was really organic. Luke was always going to play Robbie because I never diverged from that plan since the short film stage. I had worked with Marybeth Herron and Tadhg Devery on my final year student film Inertia<\/em>, and I knew they\u2019d be ideal for Liv and Chi respectively. From there, Tadhg introduced me to Cristina Ryan and Aidan O\u2019Sullivan when we were considering who would play the Garda\u00ed in the film, with the character of Kate also being Robbie\u2019s love interest, and they fit those characters like a glove. And then Luke recommended Luke Collins to play Jay, and Ian Anthony Lawless to play Zippy. They were both primarily theater actors at the time, but did an amazing job bringing that developed stage presence to the big screen. So as you can tell, it was very much a casting process based on relationships, which I think gave us that tight-knit familial connection on set that allowed us to work so well as a team to do what almost none of us had done before.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWas it a difficult task to find the technical crew that you needed to shoot the movie?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt wasn\u2019t difficult on the production side of things. I had seen the cinematography showreel of Stephen C. Walsh on social media somewhere, and I was incredibly impressed with his work. So I reached out to him with the pitch for the feature and he got on board very quickly after that. And we\u2019re tremendously blessed that he did. He was a one man film crew; doing all the camera work, the lighting, the rigging\u2026 He was a beast, and I really felt like I had a lieutenant with me going into battle in what was unfamiliar territory for me, but not at all for him. That was comforting to say the least. Post production was a lot more difficult a stage. I edited the film myself, so that was no problem. But getting a good sound designer and music composer was an ordeal. I was pulling my hair out looking for a sound designer who could take on the challenge; There were a lot of outdoor scenes where the recorded sound was inaudible, and we also needed a lot of effects sounds for the zombies and for the action scenes. After months of searching, I met a fellow filmmaker one evening who recommended Robin Sherry Wood to me, and after that it was smooth sailing. He did an incredible job, even down to creating bottom up sound design for entire scenes, such as the very first scene of the film where Robbie is on a date in the car. None of the audio in that scene was recorded on the day. The car engine, the dialogue, the sounds of motion, absolutely everything was put in in post by Robin, and no one seems to notice a thing when watching it. That\u2019s how good he is. And then with the music\u2026 All I\u2019ll say is\u2026 Just because you can create beautiful music doesn\u2019t mean you know how to score a movie. I went through ten music composers before I found someone who understood how to craft the music around the emotional beats within the scene. That someone is Steven McKenna of DRVN Pictures, and his work speaks for itself. I said I wanted three distinct motifs, and he nailed every one of them. Every now and then I\u2019ll listen to the love theme just for the pleasure of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207583\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead2.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"424\"><\/p>\nWhat was the biggest challenge you overcame when creating Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAside from the post production issues I mentioned, I think it was just the fear of going into the unknown. Especially for the massive cast sequences. Anyone can shoot a scene of two people talking. But shooting an action sequence in the middle of a forest where a horde of zombies are chasing your protagonists and a battle erupts\u2026 That\u2019s not an ordinary day on set. I had absolutely no idea if we\u2019d pull it off. But I knew that if we did, we\u2019d have done something amazing, we\u2019ll have grown as artists from the experience, and I trusted the people I had around me to be able to help me to get the job done. The rest is history. And because of this experience, I\u2019ll never make a movie where I don\u2019t attempt to do something that feels slightly beyond my ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nAre you happy with how the movie turned out?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m blown away by it. Watching the film and seeing what we accomplished, (which I believe is a cinema-quality, funny, emotional, Irish genre film,) never fails to make me feel emotional. And add to that the successful and ongoing festival run, in which we\u2019ve currently amassed 14 wins and 4 nominations, it\u2019s actually insane to think of where we started from and where we\u2019re at with it today. It\u2019s unbelievable.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207584\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead3.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead3\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nWhat has the feedback been like for Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe frustration for us at the moment is that, because of Covid, all of the festivals have been virtual so far, having to move to a digital format until things get back to normal. So although we\u2019ve won awards at practically every festival we\u2019ve screened at, we\u2019ve never seen an audience's reaction in the theater. So that\u2019s been tough, and we\u2019ve no idea how to gauge each individual aspect of the film as a result. We just know it\u2019s been extremely positive feedback on the whole. But we\u2019re looking forward to some live festivals coming up in the next few months, so\u2026 That\u2019s going to be a whole new experience for us. Excited isn\u2019t the word.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould we see more Follow the Dead<\/em> movies in the future?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe sequel is already written. And I sat down with the cast members in November for a script reading and we were falling around laughing. So yeah, we\u2019re hoping to get that one off the ground as soon as we can. And in my head the story is a trilogy. So let\u2019s see how far we get with it. But I love these characters so much; as much as I love working with the actors, so\u2026 I\u2019m totally committed to that journey if we can make it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nIf any of our readers wanted to get their eyes on Follow the Dead<\/em>, how can they do that?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe best thing to do is to follow us on our social media pages. We\u2019re @followthedeadmovie on Facebook and Instagram. (You can also check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">followthedead.com<\/a> if you want a really<\/em> deep dive into the making of the film including a Behind the Scenes documentary.) We\u2019re always posting about what\u2019s happening with the film regarding festivals, news, merchandise, stuff like that. But if you can\u2019t make it to a festival, there\u2019ll be news very soon about how you can catch the film online, exclusively on a brand new and exciting streaming service which will be launching very soon. So keep your eyes peeled for that one.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wz3JRdmLBsk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIf you\u2019ve made it this far into the interview, I sincerely from the bottom of my heart thank you for your interest. I really hope Follow the Dead tickles your fancy if you haven\u2019t yet seen it, and I hope you can check it out very soon. If you want to know what else I\u2019m doing outside of the realm of zombie flicks, my company is Wild Stag Productions. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using @wildstagmedia, or check out the official website at <a href=\"http:\/\/wildstagpoductions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildstagpoductions.com<\/a>. We\u2019re a media company that specializes in making Irish genre films. I basically want to make Irish versions of all my favourite genres, including a Western which I\u2019m writing at the moment. So yeah\u2026 thank you all for your time, and I hope you join us for the next part of our journey!<\/span><\/p>\nA big thank you to Adam for sitting and chatting with us; we wish him the best of luck with his film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.followthedead.com<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a><\/p>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Adam William Cahill","post_excerpt":"Follow the Dead","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-adam-william-cahill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:51:19","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:51:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207575","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207564,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the producers and directors of\u00a0<\/span>Young Plato, a\u00a0<\/span><\/em>documentary set in post-conflict Belfast.<\/span><\/p>\nAn observational documentary set in post-conflict Belfast\u2019s Ardoyne, where a marginalized, working-class community has for generations been plagued by poverty, drugs and guns. This film charts the dream of Headmaster Kevin McArevey and his dedicated visionary team, illustrating how critical thinking and pastoral care can empower and encourage children to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of their own community. We see how philosophy can encourage them to question the mythologies of war and of violence, and challenge the narratives of their community.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207571\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDavid Rane - Producer<\/span><\/p>\nNeasa Ni Chianain - Director<\/span><\/p>\nDeclan McGrath -<\/span> Co-Producer\/Director\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nKevin McArevey - Principal in the school<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207572\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato2-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato2\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207569\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato4.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/p>","post_title":"Young Plato Interviews","post_excerpt":"David Rane","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"young-plato-interviews","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:53:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:53:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207514,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by the writer and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. The very talented Mr Cadwell has worked on numerous comics. Some of the comics he has worked on include: Nelson<\/em>, Lovecraft Anthology 2<\/em>, Sold State Tank Girl<\/em>, Samuari Jack<\/em>, Dangeritis<\/em>, Helena Crash<\/em> and Mr. Higgins Comes Home<\/em>.<\/span>\n\nHi Warwick, happy new year to you. It's a pleasure to have you here with us. <\/span><\/strong>As some of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nHello, and Happy New Year! <\/em>Falconspeare is my third book with Dark Horse comics and Mike Mignola, but before then came<\/em> Samurai Jack, Helena Crash, The Marionette Unit, Dangeritis, and Tank Girl. But aside from comics I have worked for publishers and in the animation industry. I\u2019m just a very enthusiastic drawer\/drawist.<\/em><\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the origins of Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nFalconspeare is the third book in a sort of series (at this stage they can still be read in any order) following the adventures of a group of vampire hunters of old. In this book we discover they shared their formative years with a fourth member,<\/em> James Falconspeare, and here we discover what has happened to him since the group last met many years before.<\/em><\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207518\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp1-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp1\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nHow would you describe the Falconspeare<\/em> graphic novel?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nIt\u2019s a vampire adventure of sorts. These books revel in the classic horror worlds <\/span>of Universal Studios and Hammer Horror, but have their own flavor too. They\u2019re <\/span><\/em>also inspired by Mike Mignola, who wrote the first book,<\/em> Mr. Higgins Comes Home. I <\/em><\/span>have tried to maintain a level of humor in there, too. But this is the darkest book of the three, I think.<\/span><\/em>\n\nFor our readers who are not familiar with Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan. What can you tell us about these characters?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThese are classic vampire adventurers, like Van Helsing or Professor Abronsius. <\/span>Professor Meinhardt is an academic expert in the supernatural, and Mr. Knox is a <\/span>compassionate and careful force for good. Ms. Mary Van Sloan is a spirited fighting <\/span>force. They\u2019re all enthusiastic and brave, but also pretty lucky in a world where the <\/span>forces of evil command a strong upper hand. And in this book we find that James <\/span>Falconspeare is the honorable, law-abiding champion of the group.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207519\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp2-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp2\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhen you were creating the graphic novel, did you write a full script?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI did, eventually. I\u2019m an artist mainly, and very interested in narrative. My process for the last two books was to firstly work out the story in sketches and thumbnails to <\/span>determine what I wanted to do. Then I turned that into a script, which I then redrew as roughs. The two sets of roughs either side of the script aren\u2019t easy to compare., <\/span>however, as the first is spread over many sketchbooks in many sizes and qualities over the course of a few years.<\/span><\/em>\n\nYou are the writer and artist on Falconspeare<\/em>; what do you enjoy being more a writer or an artist?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAn artist I think, but that\u2019s mainly because I\u2019m more comfortable with that aspect. I love getting to grips with writing, and I really enjoy working with word and images to create stories. I like working with writers very much, but I\u2019m really enjoying being in charge of both the script and art to model the stories.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207520\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp3-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nDo you have a favourite character from Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAh! That\u2019s tricky, because I like them all. The main three we\u2019ve already met in the other books get a chance to develop or reaffirm their characters, which is nice. But getting to introduce new characters is great, and there\u2019s plenty in this. There\u2019s a brief appearance from Meinhardt, Knox, and Sloan\u2019s very grumpy butler (Mr. Tuphold). He\u2019s only in a<\/span>couple of panels, but he makes me laugh, and I think he could be a great character in future. Such an angry old character.<\/span><\/em>\n\nCould we see more of Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan in the future?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI certainly hope so, though I\u2019ve got away with a lot so far. Drawing these books is <\/span>amazing fun, and every page throws up more ideas for more stories to tell. So, I hope we get to follow their crazy adventures further.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207521\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp4-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp4\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhat are you currently reading?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nMy reading goes all over the place, often a long way behind. And in that spirit, \u201cAcheron\u201d by Mike Mignola at Dark Horse was ace! Steeple by John Allison, too. I love that series. Kyle Starks and Chris Schweitzer\u2019s<\/em> 6 Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton (Image) was also awesome! Other than that, I\u2019m mainly rereading<\/em> The Tomb Of Dracula or<\/em> Dracula Lives.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nTry out Falconspeare? Follow me for art if they\u2019re keen on Instagram @wocco or <\/em><\/span>on Twitter @warwickjc.<\/em> But mainly I\u2019d encourage ComicBuzz readers to get drawing\/ reading or making. Anything. It\u2019s awesome fun.<\/em><\/span>\n\nA big thank you to Warwick Johnson-Cadwell for taking the time to chat with us. We would like to wish him and his team the best of luck with Falconspeare.<\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Warwick Johnson-Cadwell","post_excerpt":"Falconspeare","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-warwick-johnson-cadwell","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:04:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:04:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207514","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207445,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_content":"With the second issue of the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series out next week from Dark Horse Comics, we are so delighted to be joined by the co-writer of the comic, Rob Williams. Rob Williams has written numerous titles. Some of the titles he has worked on include\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>, Suicide Squad<\/em>,\u00a0Trinity<\/em>,\u00a0Action Comics<\/em>,\u00a0Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>,\u00a0Judge Dredd<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Rob, happy new year to you; it's great to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\nWe have been fans of your work ever since we read\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nThanks! Good memories!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did you get involved with the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019d just done a creepy gangsters-haunted-by-ghosts creator-owned book called Old Haunts\u00a0<\/em>via AWA Studios with Laurence Campbell. Laurence drew\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0for Mike Mignola and Dark Horse for a number of years, and had been talking to Mike and the guys about doing a Gall Dennar barbarian story. He asked if I\u2019d be interested in coming on to write the book, and I think the Hellboy team liked\u00a0Old Haunts<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat made you want to be a part of the Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0<\/em>miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWorking with Laurence is always a treat. He\u2019s brilliant, and one of my best friends. Working with Mike Mignola in the Hellboy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0world? Who wouldn\u2019t want to do that? I\u2019ve enjoyed those comics for the past couple of decades. It\u2019s a treat to be involved in that universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207448\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_1-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_1\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nHow would you describe the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe sword is an important weapon in the end times of the Hellboy\/B.P.R.D. story. It\u2019s a mythical blade much like Excalibur. Our series spans thousands of years and shows you four very different heroes who held the sword at various points before passing it on, allowing us to tell very Hellboy<\/em>-world tales in a Robert E. Howard-like barbarian landscape. Additionally we'll see stories set in World War I, World War II and finally the electric blues scene of Chicago in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series takes place in the world of\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>;\u00a0is the series new reader-friendly?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: We hope so. We\u2019ve certainly tried to make that the case. We had no interest in a big exposition-fest or historical tract. If you know the major points on the\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>\u00a0map, you\u2019ll get a kick out of the references. But really we have four heroes here, three of whom are brand new, and we want to send them on a journey and care about what happens to them. In introducing three new players who don\u2019t know the key facts of this world, readers are really in the same position as them, fighting against an evil they don\u2019t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207449\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_2-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_2\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nWhat is it like writing with Mike Mignola?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA treat, as I said. I\u2019ve been a fan for years. It\u2019s intimidating too, because Mike\u2019s one of the best writers we\u2019ve had in comics, and the level of people he collaborates with is extraordinarily high. But he was very welcoming and a great sounding board for Laurence and me. Mike had a plot in mind for Gall Dennar in issue #1, which we built out from. Then it was a case of a few Zoom calls discussing the world, and Mike leading us to a few places we should probably go. It was a really enjoyable experience.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe rest of the team for\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0consists of Laurence Campbell, Quinton Winter, Clem Robins and Dave Stewart. Were they already a part of the team when you joined the series?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nLaurence was onboard before me, yes. And then I think Laurence suggested colorist Quinton Winter, who lives near him. They know each other. Quinton coloured Unfollow<\/em>, a book of mine from Vertigo a few years ago, which Clem Robins also lettered. Small world. Dave Stewart had coloured Laurence's work on his B.P.R.D.<\/em> run, so he colored our covers.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhen you saw the art from Laurence Campbell and Quinton Winter, what did you think?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: I\u2019m very aware of what Laurence can do, having worked with him so often. He\u2019s a master of mood on the page, a brilliant storyteller. We wanted issue #1 to be an epic Terrence Malick-like quest across this incredible landscape from thousands of years ago, with evil priests, woolly mammoths, immense mountain ranges, and the odd pterodactyl. Laurence and Quinton have brought all that to such vivid life here.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207450\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_3-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_3\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nDo you have a favourite scene from the first issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: Gall Dennar, having been alone on his quest for years and sitting by a fire in the mountains, tripping on some barbarian concoction, calls out to his love from thousands of years in the future and a giant wolf spirit comes to talk to him. Laurence and Quinton did a phenomenal job there. It really feels magical.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell us about the second issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWe move the action through the Victorian London of Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder<\/em>\u00a0to the first ever zeppelin attacks on London, and then to Belgium in the First World War. A German agent called Graf Ling de Gotha is given a mission to find a cult that is undertaking strange ceremonies nearby, trying to summon something unnatural into the world\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207453\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_4-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_4\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can follow my work on Twitter @Robwilliams71 on Instagram on @Robwilliams1971 and on my website<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0Thanks!<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say thank you to Rob for his time and wish him and the team the best of luck with their series.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Rob Williams","post_excerpt":"\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-rob-williams","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:09:48","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:09:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207445","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207361,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_content":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Paula Wiseman chatted with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh about some of his upcoming movie and TV projects, and also about some of his amazing past work, including roles in 'Scorpion', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and 'Transformers - Age of Extinction<\/span>'.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Paula-Wiseman-chats-with-LA-based-Irish-actor--Glenn-Keogh-e1c0li4\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nIrish American actor\u00a0Glenn Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0appears on television twice the same week emerging December 3rd on the CBS action series\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the HBO hit comedy\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on December 5th. Keogh follows that up by heading to the big screen in the Marvel franchise film,\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em><\/strong>, releasing in theaters on December 17th.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the upcoming \u201cA Fire in the Ashes\u201d episode of\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em>, Keogh steps into the action as Parkes, when Magnum (Jay Hernandez) starts following Higgins (Perdita Weeks), who has been secretly assigned to infiltrate a group threatening to take down MI-6.<\/span><\/p>\r\nSwitching gears and going for laughs, Keogh enters into the acclaimed Larry David comedy series,\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em>, during the episode \u201cIrma Kostroski.\u201d The semi-improvised storyline is being kept under wraps, but revolves around Larry\u2019s latest predicament at work.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAudiences can also catch Keogh in theaters everywhere as part of the latest adventure facing Marvel\u2019s web-spinning superhero in\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em>. Directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man, whose identity now revealed, forces Peter into asking Doctor Strange for help.<\/span><\/p>\r\nKeogh is thrilled to have not one, not two, but three roles hitting screens in December, adding \u201cI was truly blessed to get to work my acting chops this year across these roles, in Honolulu, Atlanta and Los Angeles. All very different characters and a ton of fun to get to play in the Marvel, Curb and Magnum worlds! Excited to see them play out on screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFans will recall Keogh from his first Marvel adventure as the mischievous alien \u2018TROK\u2019 from\u00a0<\/em>Season 6 of ABC\u2019s beloved series,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. He also gained attention for starring alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Atkins in the sci-fi indie feature film,\u00a0Encounter,\u00a0<\/em>and for appearing in Michael Bay\u2019s blockbuster action film,\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Keogh proved a standout as King Fergus on ABC\u2019s fairytale fantasy drama,\u00a0Once Upon a\u00a0<\/em>Time, and recurring as Sean O\u2019Brien, father of Walter (Elyes Gabel), on the CBS drama,\u00a0Scorpion<\/em>. Keogh has worked all over the world in film and television projects including prominent roles in\u00a0Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan, The O.A., Criminal Minds, NCIS, Castle, Undercovers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0New Girl.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Paula Wiseman chats with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh","post_excerpt":"LA based Irish actor","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"paula-wiseman-chats-with-la-based-irish-actor-glenn-keogh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:31:21","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:31:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207361","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207274,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_content":"With the release of his first novel,\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em> we are delighted to be joined by the multi-talented Dave Thomas. Dave is not only an actor but a comedian, writer, producer and director. We got a chance to sit down and chat with Dave bout his novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nSome of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can find out who I am by looking at my website<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davethomas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0davethomas.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0But here is a short rundown of some of the things I have done, pulled from my biography:<\/span><\/p>\nThough new to writing books, I have done every type of television in every capacity, from sketch comedy and sitcoms to reality and game shows, animation and one hour drama. I started his career in comedy, as a writer\/performer for the Emmy Award-winning NBC sketch comedy show\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. I co-wrote the movie\u00a0Spies Like Us<\/em>\u00a0with Dan Aykroyd and directed and co-wrote the MGM cult classic\u00a0Strange Brew\u00a0<\/em>with Rick Moranis. I wrote and performed on a Grammy Award nominated album for Polygram with Rick. I directed\u00a0The Experts<\/em>\u00a0starring John Travolta for Paramount. I was executive produced and starred in my own comedy series for CBS,\u00a0the Dave Thomas Show<\/em>. From 1993 to 1998, i wrote for and co-starred in 115 episodes of the ABC sitcom\u00a0Grace Under Fire<\/em>. While working on that show I created a game show called\u00a0Family Challenge<\/em>\u00a0and produced 144 episodes for the Family Channel. My company Maple Palm Productions produced movies for Fox and HBO \u2013 most notably\u00a0Ambushed\u00a0<\/em>(Courtney Vance, Virginia Masden, William Forsythe and Robert Patrick). I co-created and executive produced\u00a0America\u2019s Funniest People\u00a0<\/em>(ABC) with Vin DiBona and I was executive producer of\u00a0the<\/em> Dennis Miller Show<\/em>\u00a0for Tribune. In 2001, I founded an animation company called Animax Entertainment and produced animation series for ABC (Slacker Cats<\/em>), ESPN (Off Mikes<\/em>), and MTV (Popzilla and Big Box<\/em>) and Global television in Canada (Bob and Doug<\/em>). I won my second Emmy Award for Animax\u2019s ESPN show\u00a0\u201cOff Mikes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in 2006. Lured into drama writing by his pal, Hart Hanson, Dave wrote a spec script for\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Fox) that was produced in 2008 and then Hart asked Dave to join the writing staff of\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0for more than 50 episodes as a Consulting Producer. After three years with Bones, I was asked to join the writing staff of NBC\u2019s the\u00a0Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0also as a consulting producer. This year, along with the cast of SCTV, I produced a reunion show called\u00a0An Afternoon with SCTV<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix directed by Martin Scorcese. Currently, I am writing his second book entitled\u00a0The Perfect Life<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDid you always want to write a novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNo, writing a novel is something I didn\u2019t really think about until a couple of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat are some of the novels that you enjoy?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMy two favorite novels are\u00a0What Dreams May Come<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Matheson and\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Josh Bazell. I am now and always have been a fan of all of Max Allan Collin\u2019s work \u2013 especially his historical fictions\u00a0The Titanic Murders<\/em>,\u00a0Flying Blind<\/em>and\u00a0Ask Not<\/em>.\u00a0And my pal, Hart Hanson write a book called\u00a0The Driver<\/em>\u00a0which I really enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy Leighton started out as a pitch for a television series. I became frustrated with the lack of response and started writing it as a novel. After writing three chapters, I put it aside and continued with more TV work. Max Allan Collins read those three chapters and he encouraged me to write more. Max is a very generous person and he offered to help me get a book agent and a publisher. And then he said, \u201cBut what I\u2019d rather do is write it with you.\u201d Well, Max is a renowned mystery writer who has written more than 100 novels. I had written none. So I would have to be an idiot not to take him up on an offer like that. The truth is, even though I started the book without him, I probably would never have finished it if Max hadn\u2019t written it with me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nYou co-wrote\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton\u00a0with Max Allan Collins; how did that come about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA mutual friend, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), introduced Max and I at San Diego\u2019s Comicon. Max and I met in person there very briefly but hit it off and continued the friendship by phone even though Max is in Muscatine Iowa, and I am in Los Angeles. Of particular note: this is a COVID collaboration \u2013 Max and I were never in the same room for one second of the writing. It was all done on phone and Zoom calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBefore Max got involved, had you started to write the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYes, I wrote three chapters on my own, but only the Many Worlds sci-fi part. The mystery thread was not part of my original conception. That\u2019s something Max and I came up with after we started working on the book together.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow would you describe\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very strange little sci fi mystery thriller. It\u2019s a mix of police detective work and the theoretical ideas in quantum physics. The book tells the story of a small-time thief (Jimmy Leighton) who flees South Boston to escape from a Vietnamese gangster. Hiding out in Cambridge, Jimmy needs money and breaks into the house of a M.I.T. Physicist who happens to be running a quantum experiment in his basement based on the work of Princeton Physicist Hugh Everett III. Nosey little Jimmy connects the wrong outlet to the wrong cable from a stack of quantum batteries and finds himself transported to another version of his life 1000 miles away in Chicago. And that is only the beginning of his adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell about Jimmy Leighton?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy is not the sharpest tool in the shed when the book starts out but the experience of living several versions of his life is kind of a quantum school. Jimmy finally figures it out and finds a way to get what he needs to be happy. He was an orphan from South Boston who bounced around in foster homes the social service\u2019s system. Abused by at least two foster fathers, Jimmy ran away and hit the streets, becoming a homeless panhandler at the age of 12. But he had incredible street smarts and managed to survive, dodging the law and other homeless folk who preyed upon kids like him. He started robbing houses when he was 14 and became a seriously successful second story man, respected by many in the Boston crime community.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did NeoText end up publishing the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMax had the connection to NeoText because he had written a book with them before he met me. And Max made the deal for the book. I knew it would be a difficult sell because it\u2019s a cross-genre book. It\u2019s a sci-fi and it\u2019s a detective mystery thriller. A lot of publishers won\u2019t take a chance on cross-genre. They worry that their readers won\u2019t understand it. Or that they may become frightened reading the book because it does not stay within the preconceived expectations they had for it. But John Schoenfelder at Neo Text is a very open-minded man. And he\u2019s very supportive of his artists \u2013 that\u2019s what he calls us. No one in my 40 years working for television and film ever called me an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat was it like co-writing with Max Allan Collins?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI was surprised by how much Max and I have in common. I was familiar with some of his work, but the fact is, he has written so many books that, to be aware of them all, would\u2019ve been impossible. For example, I\u2019m a historical student of the Titanic disaster but Max actually wrote a book about a fictitious murder that takes place on that fateful voyage. To write a novel where you play out the action onboard that ship necessitated doing an incredible amount of research. So, Max and I were able to swap stories on that. Same thing with the Kennedy Assassination. And a lot of other things. We became fast friends during our collaboration writing this book. And there\u2019s no better way to get to know someone than working together on a book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFay Dalton created a lovely illustration for\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton;\u00a0was that her composition, or did you suggest ideas for it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s definitely her composition. We gave her some suggestions, but it was Faye who came up with the actual cover for the book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping ComicBuzz readers like this book. I think it definitely conforms to the comic book style of writing. Both Max and I think very visually, and I believe we painted word pictures for our readers that they will enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say a big thank you to Dave for taking the time to chat with us and we wish him and Max the best of luck with their novel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Dave Thomas","post_excerpt":"The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-dave-thomas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:32:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:32:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207274","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":16},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_22"};</script></div></div></div><div class="elementor-element 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13:44:32","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-30 12:44:32","post_content":"With the release of the Kickstarter for Carmen: The Graphic Novel, we are delighted to be joined today; by opera singer, writer and director Alek Shrader.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nHi! Thanks for reading this. I'm Alek Shrader, opera singer and director, and now a first-time comic creator. I'm a lifelong comics fan and collector, and I still have my childhood collection, worn out and a few covers missing. It's very fulfilling to be a part of the collision of these two worlds of opera and comics. As my legendary collaborator P. CRAIG freaking RUSSELL would attest, opera has excellent stories worth telling in this format. And just wait til you see what ANEKE has done with CARMEN... she knocked my socks all the way off. ARIZONA OPERA has produced this project, and I think it's just swell for an opera company to publish a comic book. Much love to you all!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWhat can you tell us about Arizona Opera?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nArizona Opera has been presenting opera since 1971 to the Phoenix and Tucson regions of Arizona, and after over 200 concerts and opera productions, they continue to seek innovative ways to expand the reach of opera as an art form. They are dedicated to their local communities, including educational outreach and Spanish-language groups, which highlights their strong value of service, in combination with musical artistry and stewardship. I like them so very much. They're led by Joseph Specter, President and General Director. Cassie Robel took the lead on our CARMEN project and was later joined by Courtney Clark. Their enthusiasm and support of this graphic novel has been unfailing.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207684\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/carmenpromo1.jpg\" alt=\"carmenpromo1\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\"><\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of Carmen: The Graphic Novel<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis project was created for the Arizona Opera OnPitch Challenge, which was essentially Shark Tank for opera. AZO was searching for an innovative means of potential revenue which was anything but donations from wealthy patrons (which is how most American opera is funded). My sister sent me the link and we brainstormed a few ideas (of which we have many). We agreed a comic book would be great for school and new audiences while also being financially and logistically achievable for an opera company. So, I did a ton of Googling and put together a business plan. Then I submitted my pitch with a now-infamous video featuring my extensive comic collection, and I was chosen as a winner. We had a short list of potential operas to adapt, all of which were coming up in AZO's season. CARMEN was the obvious choice, as it is among the most famous operas ever created and lacked a recent graphic adaptation. Then it was up to me to find artists... which was daunting, as I had zero contacts in the comics industry. But gratefully, nearly everyone I reached out to on socials or via websites responded! The comics industry is good and generous! I mean, I asked P. Craig Russell for advice and he offered to do the layouts! Amazing!<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207685\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/carmenpromo2.jpg\" alt=\"carmenpromo2\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\"><\/p>\nFor anyone unfamiliar with Carmen<\/em>, how would you describe it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nCARMEN is a story about a young woman who faces challenges to her autonomy from society, misogyny, and men who won't take \"no\" for an answer. All she wants is freedom, and yet outside forces seek to control her. She is objectified and vilified. She has strong emotions and sometimes gets into trouble. She wants to live her life her way, and so she'll let Fate decide. It's very timely, to say the least. Bizet's music is gorgeous (and you have heard it before, even if you don't know it's from this opera). The art of P. Craig Russell and Aneke is equally ravishing. CARMEN is an icon.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nHow did P. Craig Russell, Aneke and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou join the team?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nHonestly, I just reached out on social media! When Craig wrote back, I couldn't believe it. I thought of a ton of questions so I could pick his brain until he decided to hang up on me... but what actually happened was we talked about OPERA and then he offered to do the layouts himself! I did not expect that to happen, and I was absolutely ecstatic. With Aneke (as with our guest artists providing art prints for the Kickstarter), I simply sent a polite DM, and promised to pay her full rate! As a performer with a rate, I know that one must not muck with rates. You can either afford to work with an artist or you can't-- don't lowball, it's insulting. Aneke is the *perfect* artist for this book-- her art, her colors, and her VOICE are vital to how CARMEN'S story is told. And I got lucky with Hass! I am a longtime subscriber to his industry mag PanelxPanel, and I follow him on twitter. One day, he put out an open call for projects, and I responded immediately! The dream team had been assembled!<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207687\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/carmenericahenderson-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"carmenericahenderson\" width=\"675\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\nWhat it is about Carmen<\/em>; that made you want to adapt it into a graphic novel?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAmong the opera crowd, CARMEN is a household name. And yet, there are some people out there who would love this opera-- they just haven't been invited in the right way. Graphic adaptations now exist for anything in prose, and that already huge readership is continually growing. I have Slaughterhouse Five, the graphic novel. Romeo and Juliet, the graphic novel. Annie, a Marvel Movie Special. Etc etc. Why not opera? If opera doesn't want to continue to be thought of as exclusive or old and dusty, we have to reach out in *other ways* to communicate our stories. Nothing will ever replace a live opera performance, but comics can serve as a gateway-- give these readers the story in the way they prefer to consume it, and maybe they'll be curious enough to come to the opera house to see the show. CARMEN has remained a favorite and most popular opera for over 150 years for good reasons. The music is gorgeous, the story is dramatic and engaging, and I think the character of Carmen still speaks directly to modern audiences. We are all enriched by this story, this OPERA.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWas it a challenge to write Carmen: The Graphic Novel<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\nIt was! I consider myself a writer, but this was a totally new thing. I bought *literally* every how-to book I could find, which was great for technical education. But I learned the most by working with P. Craig Russell. His notes on my scripts were blunt and direct, and very actionable to make adjustments! (I actually threw out the first draft and started over from scratch!) Initially, I thought there might be a connection between the duration of a musical moment in the opera and space on the page. That formula might exist, but I never really cracked it... Next time, baby! Eventually, we had to dedicate our limited page space to the dramatic story beats and pacing, and Craig is a master there. I would have loved more pages to expand, but working in somewhat restrictive parameters can cause brilliant solutions!<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207688\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/carmenmargueritesauvage-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"carmenmargueritesauvage\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\nWe understand that there are several Kickstarter-exclusive prints available. What can you tell us about these prints?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWe have SIX exclusive OPERA art prints from seven phenomenal artists, and each one is STUNNING. ERICA HENDERSON, COLLEEN DORAN, and MARGUERITE SAUVAGE have created images of CARMEN. NATACHA BUSTOS has created an image of ARIADNE (from ARIADNE AUF NAXOS). ERICA D'URSO & MARISSA LOUISE have created an image of TOSCA (from TOSCA). ANA MIRALLES has created an image of THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT (from THE MAGIC FLUTE). Absolutely incredible!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nDo you have a favourite Kickstarter reward?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nHow can I choose amongst my children? I will PROUDLY add to my collection a signed copy of CARMEN, and EACH of the art prints. And then I'll look at that wall every single day and marvel that such art exists. And I'll be happier for it. <\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207686\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/schraderalek.jpeg\" alt=\"schraderalek\" width=\"638\" height=\"478\"><\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThank you for reading and letting me explore outside my comfort zone! This is a dream-come-true. It's wish fulfillment. I hope that you'll check out our book, and I hope you'll check out the opera, too!<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say thank you to Alek for talking to us about his new graphic novel. We would like to wish the whole team of Carmen: The Graphic Novel<\/em> the best of luck.<\/span><\/p>\nFeel free to check out the Kickstarter: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/arizonaopera\/carmen-the-graphic-novel?ref=7juthx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carmen on Kickstarter<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Alek Shrader","post_excerpt":"Carmen: The Graphic Novel","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-alek-shrader","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:21:31","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:21:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207681","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207663,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-21 14:47:13","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-21 14:47:13","post_content":"Our very own Paula Wiseman attended Dublin Comic-Con on Saturday 11th<\/sup> this year. She got a chance to interview some of the guests attending the event; she caught up with the actors Kevin McNally, Daniel Moncada and Luis Moncada.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207666\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/dublincomiccon2022_1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"dublincomiccon2022_1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nKevin McNally is an English actor and writer. He is known for portraying Joshamee Gibbs in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.<\/span><\/p>\nDaniel and Luis Moncada are Honduran-American actors and brothers known for their role as \"The Cousins\" Leonel and Marco Salamanca on the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2010) and its spin-off Better Call Saul (2016; 2018\u2013present).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-Dublin-Comic-Con-2022-e1g1euc\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-Dublin-Comic-Con-2022-e1g1euc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-Dublin-Comic-Con-2022-e1g1euc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"Interviews from Dublin Comic-Con 2022","post_excerpt":"English actor and writer","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-dublin-comic-con-2022","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:26:07","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:26:07","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207663","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207656,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-18 15:39:27","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-18 15:39:27","post_content":"For our last red carpet interview at Diff, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview director Jono Mcleod and cast member Alan Cumming from the My Old School movie.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207658\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/myoldschool1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"myoldschool1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\r\nIn 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years became the stuff of legend.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-Gala-screening-of-My-Old-School-e1fteu0<\/a><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207657\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/myoldschool-631x1024.jpg\" alt=\"myoldschool\" width=\"631\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\r\nMy Old School<\/b><\/i> is a documentary directed by Jono McLeod on the subject of the Brandon Lee scandal.<\/span><\/p>","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish Gala screening of My Old School","post_excerpt":"Alan Cumming","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-gala-screening-of-my-old-school","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:26:45","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:26:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207656","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207638,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-03-17 14:06:06","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-17 14:06:06","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by Josh O'Neill today. Josh is publisher and co-founder of Beehive Books. As Beehive Books have launched a Kickstarter this week for the GratNin<\/em> graphic novel by Ronald Wimberly, we got a chance to sit down and chat with the editor of the graphic novel.<\/span>\n\nHi Josh, it's a pleasure to have you here with us.<\/span><\/strong>\n\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers and tell us about Beehive Books? Hello! I'm the publisher and co-founder of Beehive, a small-press graphic arts outfit based out of Philadelphia. We sometimes describe our project as an exercise in the possible -- we want to test the boundaries of what a book can be, and what kind of creative work we can produce. With inventive formats, visionary art and writing, and an utterly obsessive approach to design, we aim to build paper worlds. We have titles from Brecht Evens, Mike Mignola, Yuko Shimizu, Jim Woodring, Paul Pope, Bill Sienkiewicz, Ronald Wimberly, Rebekka Dunlap, Kent Williams and more. GratNin is our fourth project with Ronald.<\/span>\n\nHow did this collaboration between Ronald Wimberly and Beehive Books come about? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nI've worked with Ron several times as a contributor to books for my previous publishing venture, Locust Moon Press. So when Ma\u00eblle Doliveux and I launched Beehive in 2016, I knew Ron personally, and admired his work to no end. When Ma\u00eblle and I began approaching authors, our basic pitch was: what's a project that you think no publisher would take on? Ron, who for my money is one of the true visionary working artists of the 21st century, was literally the first person we approached. The answer then was LAAB Magazine, an experimental broadsheet art newspaper powered by the radical imagination -- we've since released three annual issues of LAAB. Now it's GratNin, this crazy accordion-folded story scroll, the next step of our ongoing work together (and part of the sort of nascent LAAB imprint). Ron has become more than an author, to us -- he's a friend and a partner, and his work is part of the DNA of Beehive.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207641\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin2.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin2\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\n\nWhen and how did you discover GratNin<\/em>? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nI just read it as a passionate follower of Ron's work. I'll read anything and everything he puts out. When I finally sat down to read the whole thing through several years ago, I just fell in -- it's full of such humor, excitement, suspense, humanity, love for its source material, love for its characters. And it has this wonderful feeling of being a huge world to roam around in. We follow the characters we follow, but there's this feeling that more intrigue is down every alleyway. It's just an outstanding comic and we're so excited to be publishing it. <\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the Kickstarter for the GratNin <\/em>graphic novel? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nGratNin presented an exciting and singular problem -- how to present this pageless digital comic in a print format.  As per our usual ideological commitments in Beehive, we came up with the least practical, most exciting solution -- to present these remarkable stories on a series of unbroken accordion-folded scrolls, turning the downward-swiping digital read into a thrillingly physical experience. You track down four hundred feet of narrow page-space, in a format that brings to mind skyscrapers, alleyways, subway tunnels -- all the long verticals iconically representing this fantastical vision of New York. And we filled the box with ephemera from this alternate reality -- metrocards and maps and furoshikis and trading cards, making up a whole enveloping experience, skulking around New York with then Namba clan.<\/span>\n\nWhat have been some of the hurdles that you have had to overcome to get the project up to this point?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThe biggest one was just figuring out how to present this story in a readable way. It's this pageless comic that goes down and down and down. How do you do it in print? That was the problem that we faced. It's the kind of problem that our team, and especially LAAB and GratNin designer Chloe Scheffe, find most delicious. I think it's been solved beautifully here.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207642\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin3.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin3\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\n\nWe understand that the graphic novel will be an accordion style with folded pages; was this feature something that you wanted to do right from the beginning? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nNo -- we started with the problem. We didn't know the best solution. We thought about doing it as a scroll, as a giant folding map, as a long vertical book with a spine at the top.  The accordion seemed the most elegant solution, especially for something so long -- we're talking about 600 pages, printed on three pieces of paper. It's the best at replicating and reinventing that feeling of falling down into this crazy thrilling world that you get from reading GratNin digitally.<\/span>\n\nBeehive Books is releasing the GratNin<\/em> graphic novel as a box set; can you tell us about the box set? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nWe took the next step, when designing GratNin as a fully formed reading experience -- we created a little miniature space to explore. We filled the box with ephemera from this alternate reality -- metrocards and maps and furoshikis and trading cards, making up a whole enveloping experience. A world for you to crawl into a skulk around. We didn\u2019t want to just present a print version of Ron\u2019s wonderful web comic \u2013 we wanted to work with him to reinvent it, and to build out his world.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207644\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin5.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin5\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\n\nAs you are crowdfunding the graphic novel and dealing directly with consumers, does that make the project more special for you?<\/strong> <\/span>\n\nWell, we crowdfund most of our projects, so it's not any different from what we usually do. But yes -- crowdfunding does mean a much deeper-than-average engagement with your audience, and we conceive of Beehive as something other than a producer of goods with a base of customers. We see our readership as a vital community, the backbone of this whole operation. They're keeping the garden cared for and the soil tilled, so we can grow the things we grow. Our practice of building books out of an engaged community of readers makes all of our projects feel a bit more special to me.<\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207643\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/gratnin4.jpg\" alt=\"gratnin4\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\">\n\nDo you have a favourite Kickstarter reward? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nBeyond the comic itself, I really love the printed cotton-cloth furoshiki wrap! I know I'll get a lot of use out of that... just a beautiful and useful object, which is all we ever really aim to make.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers? <\/span><\/strong>\n\nBe kind to yourself. And buy GratNin! (These two go together quite nicely.)<\/span>\n\nWe would like to say thank you to Josh for chatting to us about <\/span>GratNin. <\/em><\/span>We would like to wish the whole team of GratNin<\/em> the best of luck.<\/span>\n\nFeel free to check out the<\/span><\/strong> campaign<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/beehivebooks\/gratnin?ref=6h1h34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> GranNin at<\/a><\/span><\/span><a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\"> Kickstater<\/a>.<\/span><\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Josh O'Neill","post_excerpt":"GratNin\u00a0graphic novel","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-josh-oneill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:32:04","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:32:04","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207638","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207631,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-16 18:10:08","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-16 18:10:08","post_content":"Our very own Paula Wiseman is still covering what\u2019s going on at Diff. This time she got a chance to interview the director and cast members of Wolf.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207633\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wolf2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"wolf2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nNatalie Biancheri - Director<\/span> George Mackay - Jacob<\/span> Fionn O'Shea - Rufus<\/span> Lola Petticrew - Judith<\/span><\/p>\nBelieving he's a wolf trapped in a man's body, Jacob eats, sleeps and lives like one -- much to the shock of his family. When he's sent to a clinic, Jacob and his animal-bound peers are forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of curative therapies. However, once he meets the mysterious Wildcat,\u00a0their friendship blossoms into an undeniable infatuation, and Jacob must decide whether to renounce his true self for love.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-Wolf-e1fqghn\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dashboard\/episode\/e1fqghn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/dashboard\/episode\/e1fqghn<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207636\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/wolf3-707x1024.jpg\" alt=\"wolf3\" width=\"707\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of Wolf","post_excerpt":"George Mackay","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-wolf","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:33:52","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:33:52","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207631","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207592,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-10 16:46:35","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-10 16:46:35","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the writer, producer, director and cast members of The Feast<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207595\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast2-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\nA wealthy family has a dinner party at its home in the Welsh mountains, hosting a local businessman and farmer who hope to broker a business deal. A mysterious young woman arrives to be the family's waitress, and things begin to unravel.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207596\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDirector; Lee Haven Jones<\/span> Writer and Producer; Roger Williams<\/span> Annes Elwy - Cast member - Cadi<\/span> Nia Roberts - Cast member \u2013 Glenda<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Interviews-from-the-Irish-premiere-of-The-Feast-e1fh3su<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207604\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/thefeast4-692x1024.jpg\" alt=\"thefeast4\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"Interviews from the Irish premiere of The Feast","post_excerpt":"Lee Haven Jones","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"interviews-from-the-irish-premiere-of-the-feast","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:44:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:44:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207592","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207575,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-08 15:36:25","post_content":"We are joined today by Irish filmmaker Adam William Cahill. Adam sat down with us to talk about his new film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Adam, it is so wonderful to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you please introduce yourself to our readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m an Irish filmmaker from Dublin, and the company director of Wild Stag Productions. I studied film production and earned my bachelor degree from the University of Wolverhampton. Straight out of college I decided to sink or swim as far as diving straight into the industry goes, and that\u2019s how I ended up making my first feature film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould you tell us about the origins of <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nInitially it was a short film idea imagined by Luke Corcoran, the actor who would become the lead in the feature film. He wrote a short script about three flatmates in Dublin who come across a zombie in their apartment and comedic mayhem ensues. We were initially going to shoot that script, which was called Craic of the Dead (\u201ccraic\u201d being an Irish colloquialism for fun), but we ran into some problems along the way. This gave me the time to really meditate on the concept a while, and the thing that was really hooking me about the plot was that we were essentially telling a story about Irish Millennials, a very specific demographic, dealing with a problem that we haven\u2019t seen them challenged with before. I wondered what a generation engrossed in technology, surrounded by fake news, and basically more comfortable than any generation that came before it would react to such a perilous event. Luke was gracious enough to let me take the idea and go off and write something more expansive, which I did. And a hundred pages later I had written a story about a family of Millennials in the countryside town of Ferbane who hear that Dublin has been destroyed by the undead, but don\u2019t know what to believe, and don\u2019t necessarily feel responsible to do anything about it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HTG9a78M6Gk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nHow would you describe Follow the Dead?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a dark comedy about a man in his thirties, Robbie, who can\u2019t manage to find the love he\u2019s looking for in a Tinder-centric society, and only begins to realize what he\u2019s missing when his estranged wife comes back into his life. Unluckily for him, this reunion just so happens to take place right as the town is in a frenzy, divided over the mysterious news that Dublin is experiencing a blackout, and the prevailing theory is that zombies are the cause. To add insult to injury, Robbie has to take care of his wannabe-celebrity sister Liv, who\u2019s trying to use the events to boost her social media presence, and their stoner cousins Jay and Chi, who can\u2019t agree on a single thing. The result: comedy and mayhem.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the cast of Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI had the great privilege of working with some incredible actors for this film, who were honoured with a Best Ensemble Cast nomination from the Seattle Film Festival last year. The dramatic performances from Luke Corcoran, Marybeth Herron, and Cristina Ryan are so moving, and they really carry the weight of the themes surrounding sacrifice and responsibility within the film so incredibly well. I\u2019m so proud of what they brought to the story through their rawness and vulnerability. And then there\u2019s Luke Collins and Tadhg Devery as the stoner cousins who are just so insanely hilarious, in very distinct ways; Luke with his unique physicality, and Tadhg with his incredible turn-of-phrase. We\u2019ve been honoured with numerous Comedy Feature awards internationally, with Tadhg receiving a Best Supporting Actor award from the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival too. I\u2019m really indebted to them for being so impressive in that way, and I really love that the Irish sense of humour (not to mention the accents) has really translated to foreign audiences. Truth be told, we actually filmed Follow the Dead twice. The first time, without a budget, we shot about 60% of the script, but then came back to do it all again with a bigger crew and a pittance of funding later in the year. I did that because I was blown away by the performances from the cast, which really made me believe in them and in what we were creating. So yeah\u2026 That\u2019s how much faith and love I have for these incredible artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207581\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/adamwilliamcahill-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"adamwilliamcahill\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\nYou are the writer, producer and director on Follow the Dead<\/em>. That sounds like a huge amount of work on your shoulders; how did you manage all of these hats?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWell the whole process took so much longer than it should have because of the fact that I was juggling everything. We shot Follow the Dead in August 2017, and it wasn\u2019t ready for festivals until 2020. So it was a case of taking things step by step. This was also my first feature, so I was totally unaware of how mammoth the undertaking was going to be. But that helped in a way, because I wasn\u2019t concerned with how high the mountain was; I had no idea. So I just took each step as it came, learned on the fly, and thankfully it all worked out in the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the writing process; what was it like for you?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWriting is one of the most arduous stages of development for me. I\u2019m a perfectionist, and I\u2019m a plotter; I need to know exactly where the story is going and all of the checkpoints along the way before I can get started. So before the script stage I have pages and pages and pages of notes, outlines, charts, and all sorts, and only when I can play the whole movie out visually in my head can I then sit down and write it. The only really improvisational aspect of the scripts I write is the dialogue, which I come up with as I\u2019m typing. Except for the jokes; 90% of them are planned ahead of time too. But I have to say that Follow the Dead<\/em> was the easiest script I\u2019ve written so far, purely because I had done so much meditating about it while we were planning the short film. So I have to thank Luke Corcoran for the inspiration for this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207582\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead1.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nHow did you go about finding the cast?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt was really organic. Luke was always going to play Robbie because I never diverged from that plan since the short film stage. I had worked with Marybeth Herron and Tadhg Devery on my final year student film Inertia<\/em>, and I knew they\u2019d be ideal for Liv and Chi respectively. From there, Tadhg introduced me to Cristina Ryan and Aidan O\u2019Sullivan when we were considering who would play the Garda\u00ed in the film, with the character of Kate also being Robbie\u2019s love interest, and they fit those characters like a glove. And then Luke recommended Luke Collins to play Jay, and Ian Anthony Lawless to play Zippy. They were both primarily theater actors at the time, but did an amazing job bringing that developed stage presence to the big screen. So as you can tell, it was very much a casting process based on relationships, which I think gave us that tight-knit familial connection on set that allowed us to work so well as a team to do what almost none of us had done before.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nWas it a difficult task to find the technical crew that you needed to shoot the movie?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt wasn\u2019t difficult on the production side of things. I had seen the cinematography showreel of Stephen C. Walsh on social media somewhere, and I was incredibly impressed with his work. So I reached out to him with the pitch for the feature and he got on board very quickly after that. And we\u2019re tremendously blessed that he did. He was a one man film crew; doing all the camera work, the lighting, the rigging\u2026 He was a beast, and I really felt like I had a lieutenant with me going into battle in what was unfamiliar territory for me, but not at all for him. That was comforting to say the least. Post production was a lot more difficult a stage. I edited the film myself, so that was no problem. But getting a good sound designer and music composer was an ordeal. I was pulling my hair out looking for a sound designer who could take on the challenge; There were a lot of outdoor scenes where the recorded sound was inaudible, and we also needed a lot of effects sounds for the zombies and for the action scenes. After months of searching, I met a fellow filmmaker one evening who recommended Robin Sherry Wood to me, and after that it was smooth sailing. He did an incredible job, even down to creating bottom up sound design for entire scenes, such as the very first scene of the film where Robbie is on a date in the car. None of the audio in that scene was recorded on the day. The car engine, the dialogue, the sounds of motion, absolutely everything was put in in post by Robin, and no one seems to notice a thing when watching it. That\u2019s how good he is. And then with the music\u2026 All I\u2019ll say is\u2026 Just because you can create beautiful music doesn\u2019t mean you know how to score a movie. I went through ten music composers before I found someone who understood how to craft the music around the emotional beats within the scene. That someone is Steven McKenna of DRVN Pictures, and his work speaks for itself. I said I wanted three distinct motifs, and he nailed every one of them. Every now and then I\u2019ll listen to the love theme just for the pleasure of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207583\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead2.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"424\"><\/p>\nWhat was the biggest challenge you overcame when creating Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAside from the post production issues I mentioned, I think it was just the fear of going into the unknown. Especially for the massive cast sequences. Anyone can shoot a scene of two people talking. But shooting an action sequence in the middle of a forest where a horde of zombies are chasing your protagonists and a battle erupts\u2026 That\u2019s not an ordinary day on set. I had absolutely no idea if we\u2019d pull it off. But I knew that if we did, we\u2019d have done something amazing, we\u2019ll have grown as artists from the experience, and I trusted the people I had around me to be able to help me to get the job done. The rest is history. And because of this experience, I\u2019ll never make a movie where I don\u2019t attempt to do something that feels slightly beyond my ability.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nAre you happy with how the movie turned out?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019m blown away by it. Watching the film and seeing what we accomplished, (which I believe is a cinema-quality, funny, emotional, Irish genre film,) never fails to make me feel emotional. And add to that the successful and ongoing festival run, in which we\u2019ve currently amassed 14 wins and 4 nominations, it\u2019s actually insane to think of where we started from and where we\u2019re at with it today. It\u2019s unbelievable.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207584\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/followthedead3.jpg\" alt=\"followthedead3\" width=\"1000\" height=\"423\"><\/p>\nWhat has the feedback been like for Follow the Dead<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe frustration for us at the moment is that, because of Covid, all of the festivals have been virtual so far, having to move to a digital format until things get back to normal. So although we\u2019ve won awards at practically every festival we\u2019ve screened at, we\u2019ve never seen an audience's reaction in the theater. So that\u2019s been tough, and we\u2019ve no idea how to gauge each individual aspect of the film as a result. We just know it\u2019s been extremely positive feedback on the whole. But we\u2019re looking forward to some live festivals coming up in the next few months, so\u2026 That\u2019s going to be a whole new experience for us. Excited isn\u2019t the word.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nCould we see more Follow the Dead<\/em> movies in the future?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe sequel is already written. And I sat down with the cast members in November for a script reading and we were falling around laughing. So yeah, we\u2019re hoping to get that one off the ground as soon as we can. And in my head the story is a trilogy. So let\u2019s see how far we get with it. But I love these characters so much; as much as I love working with the actors, so\u2026 I\u2019m totally committed to that journey if we can make it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\nIf any of our readers wanted to get their eyes on Follow the Dead<\/em>, how can they do that?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe best thing to do is to follow us on our social media pages. We\u2019re @followthedeadmovie on Facebook and Instagram. (You can also check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">followthedead.com<\/a> if you want a really<\/em> deep dive into the making of the film including a Behind the Scenes documentary.) We\u2019re always posting about what\u2019s happening with the film regarding festivals, news, merchandise, stuff like that. But if you can\u2019t make it to a festival, there\u2019ll be news very soon about how you can catch the film online, exclusively on a brand new and exciting streaming service which will be launching very soon. So keep your eyes peeled for that one.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wz3JRdmLBsk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIf you\u2019ve made it this far into the interview, I sincerely from the bottom of my heart thank you for your interest. I really hope Follow the Dead tickles your fancy if you haven\u2019t yet seen it, and I hope you can check it out very soon. If you want to know what else I\u2019m doing outside of the realm of zombie flicks, my company is Wild Stag Productions. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter using @wildstagmedia, or check out the official website at <a href=\"http:\/\/wildstagpoductions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wildstagpoductions.com<\/a>. We\u2019re a media company that specializes in making Irish genre films. I basically want to make Irish versions of all my favourite genres, including a Western which I\u2019m writing at the moment. So yeah\u2026 thank you all for your time, and I hope you join us for the next part of our journey!<\/span><\/p>\nA big thank you to Adam for sitting and chatting with us; we wish him the best of luck with his film, <\/span>Follow the Dead<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthedead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.followthedead.com<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.instagram.com\/followthedeadmovie<\/a><\/p>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Adam William Cahill","post_excerpt":"Follow the Dead","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-adam-william-cahill","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:51:19","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:51:19","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207575","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207564,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-07 15:58:17","post_content":"Hot off the red carpet from DIFF, our very own Paula Wiseman got a chance to interview the producers and directors of\u00a0<\/span>Young Plato, a\u00a0<\/span><\/em>documentary set in post-conflict Belfast.<\/span><\/p>\nAn observational documentary set in post-conflict Belfast\u2019s Ardoyne, where a marginalized, working-class community has for generations been plagued by poverty, drugs and guns. This film charts the dream of Headmaster Kevin McArevey and his dedicated visionary team, illustrating how critical thinking and pastoral care can empower and encourage children to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of their own community. We see how philosophy can encourage them to question the mythologies of war and of violence, and challenge the narratives of their community.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207571\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\nDavid Rane - Producer<\/span><\/p>\nNeasa Ni Chianain - Director<\/span><\/p>\nDeclan McGrath -<\/span> Co-Producer\/Director\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nKevin McArevey - Principal in the school<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207572\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato2-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato2\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/episodes\/Young-Plato-Interviews-e1fc02h<\/a><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-207569\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/youngplato4.jpg\" alt=\"youngplato4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/p>","post_title":"Young Plato Interviews","post_excerpt":"David Rane","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"young-plato-interviews","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 21:53:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 20:53:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207514,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 18:03:32","post_content":"We are so happy to be joined by the writer and artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. The very talented Mr Cadwell has worked on numerous comics. Some of the comics he has worked on include: Nelson<\/em>, Lovecraft Anthology 2<\/em>, Sold State Tank Girl<\/em>, Samuari Jack<\/em>, Dangeritis<\/em>, Helena Crash<\/em> and Mr. Higgins Comes Home<\/em>.<\/span>\n\nHi Warwick, happy new year to you. It's a pleasure to have you here with us. <\/span><\/strong>As some of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nHello, and Happy New Year! <\/em>Falconspeare is my third book with Dark Horse comics and Mike Mignola, but before then came<\/em> Samurai Jack, Helena Crash, The Marionette Unit, Dangeritis, and Tank Girl. But aside from comics I have worked for publishers and in the animation industry. I\u2019m just a very enthusiastic drawer\/drawist.<\/em><\/span>\n\nCan you tell us about the origins of Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nFalconspeare is the third book in a sort of series (at this stage they can still be read in any order) following the adventures of a group of vampire hunters of old. In this book we discover they shared their formative years with a fourth member,<\/em> James Falconspeare, and here we discover what has happened to him since the group last met many years before.<\/em><\/span>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207518\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp1-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp1\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nHow would you describe the Falconspeare<\/em> graphic novel?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nIt\u2019s a vampire adventure of sorts. These books revel in the classic horror worlds <\/span>of Universal Studios and Hammer Horror, but have their own flavor too. They\u2019re <\/span><\/em>also inspired by Mike Mignola, who wrote the first book,<\/em> Mr. Higgins Comes Home. I <\/em><\/span>have tried to maintain a level of humor in there, too. But this is the darkest book of the three, I think.<\/span><\/em>\n\nFor our readers who are not familiar with Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan. What can you tell us about these characters?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nThese are classic vampire adventurers, like Van Helsing or Professor Abronsius. <\/span>Professor Meinhardt is an academic expert in the supernatural, and Mr. Knox is a <\/span>compassionate and careful force for good. Ms. Mary Van Sloan is a spirited fighting <\/span>force. They\u2019re all enthusiastic and brave, but also pretty lucky in a world where the <\/span>forces of evil command a strong upper hand. And in this book we find that James <\/span>Falconspeare is the honorable, law-abiding champion of the group.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207519\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp2-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp2\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhen you were creating the graphic novel, did you write a full script?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI did, eventually. I\u2019m an artist mainly, and very interested in narrative. My process for the last two books was to firstly work out the story in sketches and thumbnails to <\/span>determine what I wanted to do. Then I turned that into a script, which I then redrew as roughs. The two sets of roughs either side of the script aren\u2019t easy to compare., <\/span>however, as the first is spread over many sketchbooks in many sizes and qualities over the course of a few years.<\/span><\/em>\n\nYou are the writer and artist on Falconspeare<\/em>; what do you enjoy being more a writer or an artist?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAn artist I think, but that\u2019s mainly because I\u2019m more comfortable with that aspect. I love getting to grips with writing, and I really enjoy working with word and images to create stories. I like working with writers very much, but I\u2019m really enjoying being in charge of both the script and art to model the stories.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207520\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp3-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nDo you have a favourite character from Falconspeare<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nAh! That\u2019s tricky, because I like them all. The main three we\u2019ve already met in the other books get a chance to develop or reaffirm their characters, which is nice. But getting to introduce new characters is great, and there\u2019s plenty in this. There\u2019s a brief appearance from Meinhardt, Knox, and Sloan\u2019s very grumpy butler (Mr. Tuphold). He\u2019s only in a<\/span>couple of panels, but he makes me laugh, and I think he could be a great character in future. Such an angry old character.<\/span><\/em>\n\nCould we see more of Professor J.T. Meinhardt, Mr. Knox and Ms. Mary Van Sloan in the future?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nI certainly hope so, though I\u2019ve got away with a lot so far. Drawing these books is <\/span>amazing fun, and every page throws up more ideas for more stories to tell. So, I hope we get to follow their crazy adventures further.<\/span><\/em>\n\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207521\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/flcnsp4-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"flcnsp4\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\">\n\nWhat are you currently reading?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nMy reading goes all over the place, often a long way behind. And in that spirit, \u201cAcheron\u201d by Mike Mignola at Dark Horse was ace! Steeple by John Allison, too. I love that series. Kyle Starks and Chris Schweitzer\u2019s<\/em> 6 Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton (Image) was also awesome! Other than that, I\u2019m mainly rereading<\/em> The Tomb Of Dracula or<\/em> Dracula Lives.<\/span>\n\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/span><\/strong>\n\nTry out Falconspeare? Follow me for art if they\u2019re keen on Instagram @wocco or <\/em><\/span>on Twitter @warwickjc.<\/em> But mainly I\u2019d encourage ComicBuzz readers to get drawing\/ reading or making. Anything. It\u2019s awesome fun.<\/em><\/span>\n\nA big thank you to Warwick Johnson-Cadwell for taking the time to chat with us. We would like to wish him and his team the best of luck with Falconspeare.<\/span>","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Warwick Johnson-Cadwell","post_excerpt":"Falconspeare","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-warwick-johnson-cadwell","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:04:00","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:04:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207514","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207445,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-11 15:57:39","post_content":"With the second issue of the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series out next week from Dark Horse Comics, we are so delighted to be joined by the co-writer of the comic, Rob Williams. Rob Williams has written numerous titles. Some of the titles he has worked on include\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>, Suicide Squad<\/em>,\u00a0Trinity<\/em>,\u00a0Action Comics<\/em>,\u00a0Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>,\u00a0Judge Dredd<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nHi Rob, happy new year to you; it's great to have you here with us.<\/span><\/p>\nWe have been fans of your work ever since we read\u00a0Cla$$war<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nThanks! Good memories!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did you get involved with the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019d just done a creepy gangsters-haunted-by-ghosts creator-owned book called Old Haunts\u00a0<\/em>via AWA Studios with Laurence Campbell. Laurence drew\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0for Mike Mignola and Dark Horse for a number of years, and had been talking to Mike and the guys about doing a Gall Dennar barbarian story. He asked if I\u2019d be interested in coming on to write the book, and I think the Hellboy team liked\u00a0Old Haunts<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat made you want to be a part of the Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0<\/em>miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWorking with Laurence is always a treat. He\u2019s brilliant, and one of my best friends. Working with Mike Mignola in the Hellboy\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0B.P.R.D.<\/em>\u00a0world? Who wouldn\u2019t want to do that? I\u2019ve enjoyed those comics for the past couple of decades. It\u2019s a treat to be involved in that universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207448\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_1-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_1\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nHow would you describe the\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0miniseries?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe sword is an important weapon in the end times of the Hellboy\/B.P.R.D. story. It\u2019s a mythical blade much like Excalibur. Our series spans thousands of years and shows you four very different heroes who held the sword at various points before passing it on, allowing us to tell very Hellboy<\/em>-world tales in a Robert E. Howard-like barbarian landscape. Additionally we'll see stories set in World War I, World War II and finally the electric blues scene of Chicago in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0series takes place in the world of\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>;\u00a0is the series new reader-friendly?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: We hope so. We\u2019ve certainly tried to make that the case. We had no interest in a big exposition-fest or historical tract. If you know the major points on the\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>\u00a0map, you\u2019ll get a kick out of the references. But really we have four heroes here, three of whom are brand new, and we want to send them on a journey and care about what happens to them. In introducing three new players who don\u2019t know the key facts of this world, readers are really in the same position as them, fighting against an evil they don\u2019t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207449\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_2-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_2\" width=\"671\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nWhat is it like writing with Mike Mignola?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA treat, as I said. I\u2019ve been a fan for years. It\u2019s intimidating too, because Mike\u2019s one of the best writers we\u2019ve had in comics, and the level of people he collaborates with is extraordinarily high. But he was very welcoming and a great sounding board for Laurence and me. Mike had a plot in mind for Gall Dennar in issue #1, which we built out from. Then it was a case of a few Zoom calls discussing the world, and Mike leading us to a few places we should probably go. It was a really enjoyable experience.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nThe rest of the team for\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea<\/em>\u00a0consists of Laurence Campbell, Quinton Winter, Clem Robins and Dave Stewart. Were they already a part of the team when you joined the series?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nLaurence was onboard before me, yes. And then I think Laurence suggested colorist Quinton Winter, who lives near him. They know each other. Quinton coloured Unfollow<\/em>, a book of mine from Vertigo a few years ago, which Clem Robins also lettered. Small world. Dave Stewart had coloured Laurence's work on his B.P.R.D.<\/em> run, so he colored our covers.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhen you saw the art from Laurence Campbell and Quinton Winter, what did you think?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: I\u2019m very aware of what Laurence can do, having worked with him so often. He\u2019s a master of mood on the page, a brilliant storyteller. We wanted issue #1 to be an epic Terrence Malick-like quest across this incredible landscape from thousands of years ago, with evil priests, woolly mammoths, immense mountain ranges, and the odd pterodactyl. Laurence and Quinton have brought all that to such vivid life here.<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207450\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_3-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_3\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nDo you have a favourite scene from the first issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA: Gall Dennar, having been alone on his quest for years and sitting by a fire in the mountains, tripping on some barbarian concoction, calls out to his love from thousands of years in the future and a giant wolf spirit comes to talk to him. Laurence and Quinton did a phenomenal job there. It really feels magical.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell us about the second issue?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nWe move the action through the Victorian London of Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder<\/em>\u00a0to the first ever zeppelin attacks on London, and then to Belgium in the First World War. A German agent called Graf Ling de Gotha is given a mission to find a cult that is undertaking strange ceremonies nearby, trying to summon something unnatural into the world\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-207453\" src=\"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/swordohyp1_4-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"swordohyp1_4\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can follow my work on Twitter @Robwilliams71 on Instagram on @Robwilliams1971 and on my website<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0Thanks!<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say thank you to Rob for his time and wish him and the team the best of luck with their series.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Rob Williams","post_excerpt":"\u00a0Sword of Hyperborea\u00a0","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-rob-williams","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:09:48","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:09:48","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207445","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207361,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-21 13:56:14","post_content":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Paula Wiseman chatted with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh about some of his upcoming movie and TV projects, and also about some of his amazing past work, including roles in 'Scorpion', 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and 'Transformers - Age of Extinction<\/span>'.<\/div>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/comicbuzz\/embed\/episodes\/Paula-Wiseman-chats-with-LA-based-Irish-actor--Glenn-Keogh-e1c0li4\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\nIrish American actor\u00a0Glenn Keogh<\/strong>\u00a0appears on television twice the same week emerging December 3rd on the CBS action series\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the HBO hit comedy\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on December 5th. Keogh follows that up by heading to the big screen in the Marvel franchise film,\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em><\/strong>, releasing in theaters on December 17th.<\/span><\/p>\r\nIn the upcoming \u201cA Fire in the Ashes\u201d episode of\u00a0MAGNUM P.I.<\/em>, Keogh steps into the action as Parkes, when Magnum (Jay Hernandez) starts following Higgins (Perdita Weeks), who has been secretly assigned to infiltrate a group threatening to take down MI-6.<\/span><\/p>\r\nSwitching gears and going for laughs, Keogh enters into the acclaimed Larry David comedy series,\u00a0CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM<\/em>, during the episode \u201cIrma Kostroski.\u201d The semi-improvised storyline is being kept under wraps, but revolves around Larry\u2019s latest predicament at work.<\/span><\/p>\r\nAudiences can also catch Keogh in theaters everywhere as part of the latest adventure facing Marvel\u2019s web-spinning superhero in\u00a0SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME<\/em>. Directed by Jon Watts, Tom Holland reprises the role of Spider-Man, whose identity now revealed, forces Peter into asking Doctor Strange for help.<\/span><\/p>\r\nKeogh is thrilled to have not one, not two, but three roles hitting screens in December, adding \u201cI was truly blessed to get to work my acting chops this year across these roles, in Honolulu, Atlanta and Los Angeles. All very different characters and a ton of fun to get to play in the Marvel, Curb and Magnum worlds! Excited to see them play out on screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\nFans will recall Keogh from his first Marvel adventure as the mischievous alien \u2018TROK\u2019 from\u00a0<\/em>Season 6 of ABC\u2019s beloved series,\u00a0Marvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. He also gained attention for starring alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Atkins in the sci-fi indie feature film,\u00a0Encounter,\u00a0<\/em>and for appearing in Michael Bay\u2019s blockbuster action film,\u00a0Transformers: Age of Extinction<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>Keogh proved a standout as King Fergus on ABC\u2019s fairytale fantasy drama,\u00a0Once Upon a\u00a0<\/em>Time, and recurring as Sean O\u2019Brien, father of Walter (Elyes Gabel), on the CBS drama,\u00a0Scorpion<\/em>. Keogh has worked all over the world in film and television projects including prominent roles in\u00a0Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan, The O.A., Criminal Minds, NCIS, Castle, Undercovers,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0New Girl.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\r\n","post_title":"Paula Wiseman chats with LA based Irish actor, Glenn Keogh","post_excerpt":"LA based Irish actor","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"paula-wiseman-chats-with-la-based-irish-actor-glenn-keogh","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-31 14:31:21","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-31 13:31:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207361","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":207274,"post_author":"2","post_date":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-12-03 17:53:10","post_content":"With the release of his first novel,\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em> we are delighted to be joined by the multi-talented Dave Thomas. Dave is not only an actor but a comedian, writer, producer and director. We got a chance to sit down and chat with Dave bout his novel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nSome of our readers may not be familiar with your work, could you please tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYou can find out who I am by looking at my website<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davethomas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0davethomas.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0But here is a short rundown of some of the things I have done, pulled from my biography:<\/span><\/p>\nThough new to writing books, I have done every type of television in every capacity, from sketch comedy and sitcoms to reality and game shows, animation and one hour drama. I started his career in comedy, as a writer\/performer for the Emmy Award-winning NBC sketch comedy show\u00a0SCTV<\/em>. I co-wrote the movie\u00a0Spies Like Us<\/em>\u00a0with Dan Aykroyd and directed and co-wrote the MGM cult classic\u00a0Strange Brew\u00a0<\/em>with Rick Moranis. I wrote and performed on a Grammy Award nominated album for Polygram with Rick. I directed\u00a0The Experts<\/em>\u00a0starring John Travolta for Paramount. I was executive produced and starred in my own comedy series for CBS,\u00a0the Dave Thomas Show<\/em>. From 1993 to 1998, i wrote for and co-starred in 115 episodes of the ABC sitcom\u00a0Grace Under Fire<\/em>. While working on that show I created a game show called\u00a0Family Challenge<\/em>\u00a0and produced 144 episodes for the Family Channel. My company Maple Palm Productions produced movies for Fox and HBO \u2013 most notably\u00a0Ambushed\u00a0<\/em>(Courtney Vance, Virginia Masden, William Forsythe and Robert Patrick). I co-created and executive produced\u00a0America\u2019s Funniest People\u00a0<\/em>(ABC) with Vin DiBona and I was executive producer of\u00a0the<\/em> Dennis Miller Show<\/em>\u00a0for Tribune. In 2001, I founded an animation company called Animax Entertainment and produced animation series for ABC (Slacker Cats<\/em>), ESPN (Off Mikes<\/em>), and MTV (Popzilla and Big Box<\/em>) and Global television in Canada (Bob and Doug<\/em>). I won my second Emmy Award for Animax\u2019s ESPN show\u00a0\u201cOff Mikes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in 2006. Lured into drama writing by his pal, Hart Hanson, Dave wrote a spec script for\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0(Fox) that was produced in 2008 and then Hart asked Dave to join the writing staff of\u00a0Bones<\/em>\u00a0for more than 50 episodes as a Consulting Producer. After three years with Bones, I was asked to join the writing staff of NBC\u2019s the\u00a0Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0also as a consulting producer. This year, along with the cast of SCTV, I produced a reunion show called\u00a0An Afternoon with SCTV<\/em>\u00a0for Netflix directed by Martin Scorcese. Currently, I am writing his second book entitled\u00a0The Perfect Life<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nDid you always want to write a novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nNo, writing a novel is something I didn\u2019t really think about until a couple of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat are some of the novels that you enjoy?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMy two favorite novels are\u00a0What Dreams May Come<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Matheson and\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Josh Bazell. I am now and always have been a fan of all of Max Allan Collin\u2019s work \u2013 especially his historical fictions\u00a0The Titanic Murders<\/em>,\u00a0Flying Blind<\/em>and\u00a0Ask Not<\/em>.\u00a0And my pal, Hart Hanson write a book called\u00a0The Driver<\/em>\u00a0which I really enjoyed.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nCan you tell us about the origins of\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy Leighton started out as a pitch for a television series. I became frustrated with the lack of response and started writing it as a novel. After writing three chapters, I put it aside and continued with more TV work. Max Allan Collins read those three chapters and he encouraged me to write more. Max is a very generous person and he offered to help me get a book agent and a publisher. And then he said, \u201cBut what I\u2019d rather do is write it with you.\u201d Well, Max is a renowned mystery writer who has written more than 100 novels. I had written none. So I would have to be an idiot not to take him up on an offer like that. The truth is, even though I started the book without him, I probably would never have finished it if Max hadn\u2019t written it with me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nYou co-wrote\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton\u00a0with Max Allan Collins; how did that come about?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nA mutual friend, Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), introduced Max and I at San Diego\u2019s Comicon. Max and I met in person there very briefly but hit it off and continued the friendship by phone even though Max is in Muscatine Iowa, and I am in Los Angeles. Of particular note: this is a COVID collaboration \u2013 Max and I were never in the same room for one second of the writing. It was all done on phone and Zoom calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBefore Max got involved, had you started to write the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nYes, I wrote three chapters on my own, but only the Many Worlds sci-fi part. The mystery thread was not part of my original conception. That\u2019s something Max and I came up with after we started working on the book together.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow would you describe\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a very strange little sci fi mystery thriller. It\u2019s a mix of police detective work and the theoretical ideas in quantum physics. The book tells the story of a small-time thief (Jimmy Leighton) who flees South Boston to escape from a Vietnamese gangster. Hiding out in Cambridge, Jimmy needs money and breaks into the house of a M.I.T. Physicist who happens to be running a quantum experiment in his basement based on the work of Princeton Physicist Hugh Everett III. Nosey little Jimmy connects the wrong outlet to the wrong cable from a stack of quantum batteries and finds himself transported to another version of his life 1000 miles away in Chicago. And that is only the beginning of his adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat can you tell about Jimmy Leighton?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nJimmy is not the sharpest tool in the shed when the book starts out but the experience of living several versions of his life is kind of a quantum school. Jimmy finally figures it out and finds a way to get what he needs to be happy. He was an orphan from South Boston who bounced around in foster homes the social service\u2019s system. Abused by at least two foster fathers, Jimmy ran away and hit the streets, becoming a homeless panhandler at the age of 12. But he had incredible street smarts and managed to survive, dodging the law and other homeless folk who preyed upon kids like him. He started robbing houses when he was 14 and became a seriously successful second story man, respected by many in the Boston crime community.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHow did NeoText end up publishing the novel?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMax had the connection to NeoText because he had written a book with them before he met me. And Max made the deal for the book. I knew it would be a difficult sell because it\u2019s a cross-genre book. It\u2019s a sci-fi and it\u2019s a detective mystery thriller. A lot of publishers won\u2019t take a chance on cross-genre. They worry that their readers won\u2019t understand it. Or that they may become frightened reading the book because it does not stay within the preconceived expectations they had for it. But John Schoenfelder at Neo Text is a very open-minded man. And he\u2019s very supportive of his artists \u2013 that\u2019s what he calls us. No one in my 40 years working for television and film ever called me an artist.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat was it like co-writing with Max Allan Collins?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nI was surprised by how much Max and I have in common. I was familiar with some of his work, but the fact is, he has written so many books that, to be aware of them all, would\u2019ve been impossible. For example, I\u2019m a historical student of the Titanic disaster but Max actually wrote a book about a fictitious murder that takes place on that fateful voyage. To write a novel where you play out the action onboard that ship necessitated doing an incredible amount of research. So, Max and I were able to swap stories on that. Same thing with the Kennedy Assassination. And a lot of other things. We became fast friends during our collaboration writing this book. And there\u2019s no better way to get to know someone than working together on a book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nFay Dalton created a lovely illustration for\u00a0The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton;\u00a0was that her composition, or did you suggest ideas for it?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s definitely her composition. We gave her some suggestions, but it was Faye who came up with the actual cover for the book.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nAny message for the ComicBuzz readers?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping ComicBuzz readers like this book. I think it definitely conforms to the comic book style of writing. Both Max and I think very visually, and I believe we painted word pictures for our readers that they will enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\nWe would like to say a big thank you to Dave for taking the time to chat with us and we wish him and Max the best of luck with their novel.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","post_title":"ComicBuzz Chats With Dave Thomas","post_excerpt":"The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"comicbuzz-chats-with-dave-thomas","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-07 22:32:21","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-07 21:32:21","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/comicbuzz.com\/?p=207274","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":16},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_22"};</script> </div></div></div><div class="elementor-element 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