[SPEAKER_00]: This is all I encourage the day of the change.
[SPEAKER_00]: The day is finally here.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Kickstarter campaign for our comic book adaptation of this audio drama is now live.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a really exciting moment for this audio drama as we have finally visualized what you've been hearing through your headphones over the years.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you've been listening to this audio drama over the last few years and connected with the story, I'd highly encourage you to check out our Kickstarter campaign and check out this quintual pages that we created the covers.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can finally see what John and Sarah look like.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can see what the sick look like.
[SPEAKER_00]: And through the sequential pages, you can see some of the story unfold that we told in the first season, as well as a preview of what's to come.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm really proud of the work that our artist Mattea is deep in Chino and our letter Marie and Leon accomplished with the pages that we've created this far.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think you're really going to dig the art style and what we're trying to accomplish here.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you like post-apocalyptic stories, if you like zombies, if you like this audio drama, if you like tales of family survival, I think you're really going to dig it especially if you like comic books already.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't, maybe this is something that you might be interested in.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have a lot of back rewards to choose from.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have some that that started only $10.
[SPEAKER_00]: and they call it all the way up to $100, but there's several within that range that offer various rewards like black and white PDF copies, digital copies, physical copies, variant copy, 11 edition training car which is super cool looking, digital portraits of you John as sick as a zombie.
[SPEAKER_00]: so I really think that there's something for everyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you want to get a better look at everything, rather than just hearing me talk about it, the links to our Kickstarter campaign are going to be within the description of this episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's also all over our social media pages on Instagram, Tumblr, Blue Sky, Facebook, so you can find it all there and you can take a look at the work that we've been doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this Kickstarter campaign will run for 30 days, so we have 30 days to raise $3,500 to make to make issue one reality.
[SPEAKER_00]: And most of that cost is going to paying our artists, our letterer, and the printing cost to develop this issue.
[SPEAKER_00]: And with the first two days being the most important and a Kickstarter campaign, and probably also the last, we're doing limited edition early bird rates for tier two and tier three.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you get in for the first two days, you can actually get
[SPEAKER_00]: So I just wanted to say thank you for always supporting this audio drama.
[SPEAKER_00]: We really appreciate you falling along in the story this far.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is just a new way of telling the story of the first season with the hopes of actually being able to do season two and season three in the future too.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I hope you back to the campaign.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you find something that you like.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you take the comic book adaptation of this show.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then also, right now you can hear an interview that I did with our artist Muteeus.
[SPEAKER_00]: about his sort of style how he got started working with comic books and why he was interested in this particular story in the first place.
[SPEAKER_00]: So here's Matthias, thanks again for your support for listening to this show and for potentially backing our comic book.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may hear cats.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing I can do about the cats.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're just they're hanging around and they don't want to play and you know I'll just try and shoot them away if I can.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just wanted to first ask you about whenever you first got interested in art.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you knew that you wanted to start drawing and that you, you potentially had some sort of passion for comic books.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when did that first start for you?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm starting to draw like a child.
[SPEAKER_01]: But in my case, I never lost the love for drawing.
[SPEAKER_01]: When I was a child, my father gave me some comic books about Superman and Batman, but I don't like them so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when I was at the nature, I discovered the manga.
[SPEAKER_01]: I discovered the Roda Unique and Shimanga and I fall in love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before this, I was in love with Dragon Ball and Sensei, Sailor Moon,
[SPEAKER_01]: And when I read the manga of Rodoni Genshin, I feel it.
[SPEAKER_01]: My heart burn and I think I want to do this all my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to tell stories in the comic book format.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember watching Dragon Ball for a long time whenever I was growing up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been watching some time and my wife also loved Sailor Moon when she was growing up.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we both have, we both have passions for this too as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you said that your dad gave you some comic books early in life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that something that you guys shared a passion for?
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you still like recombin books like to this day together or anything like that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or how is that growing up with someone in your family who also loved something that you loved?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, my mother is our teacher, she's a painter and sculptor, but my dad, my dad, not.
[SPEAKER_01]: My dad, she has to read the comics when he was a child, but he's not a fan.
[SPEAKER_01]: In this case, I think I am very fortunately gay because I don't have a direct influence for my family.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mom, no, because later I studied art too, but I'm not a right friend of paintings and traditional art.
[SPEAKER_01]: I prefer the popular art like comics, TV series, cinema, um, something like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's interesting to hear that your mom is an art teacher and does painting and things like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I would imagine that growing up and seeing her do that maybe could have sparked a little interest too.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that that's really nice to know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you guys like ever, I know that you're not into the traditional art?
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you guys ever like do any like, uh, did you all like draw together?
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you teach you some things and things like that?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, I have several difference with my mum.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's a abstract painter and I prefer the figurative.
[SPEAKER_01]: She has a very clear work, geometrical forms, it's not my work, and she hates anime and manga and things like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember when I was a child,
[SPEAKER_01]: watching Dragon Ball on the TV and then she said, but yes, what is that shit?
[SPEAKER_01]: Why don't you look the boxbony tombs or things like that?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a really funny story.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I guess that makes a lot of sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: Abstract painting and comic book is totally different from each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really opposite.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: That makes a lot of sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: She tried to show me some art books about Picasso, the vintage, Miguel Ángel, and all the classics.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was a child, I had eleven, and I remember when I saw it, I thought, this is boring.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to say go, go fighting, not this guy is in the church.
[SPEAKER_00]: that makes a lot of sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I would want to read books like that whenever I was 11 either.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I would probably have found it boring too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so you get an interest in comic books.
[SPEAKER_00]: When did you first start experimenting with comic book art yourself?
[SPEAKER_00]: When did you start drawing that specific style and then what led you to your first comic book that that you actually drew for?
[SPEAKER_01]: When I finished to read the manga of Kenshin, the first tank of all night by number five, I remember, I finished to read it and say, I want to do comics immediately start to draw characters and
[SPEAKER_01]: stories and things like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But like a hobby, when I was 15, I started to study comic book with Mariano Lavaaro, a great great artist, he published in image comics, and here he was the artist for the comic book Cavashiro Rojo.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember when she gave to us the original pages, I thought
[SPEAKER_01]: amazing, this is the great art.
[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe in that moment was the first time when I really feel the comic book like the kind of language, artistic language, I want to accept to me and do it all my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when I was 18, I published my first book like a professional.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was very, very amateur.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have it here.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is what's my first comic book, Terrible and Horrible.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think my first professional really professional work was Domino's in 2016.
[SPEAKER_00]: for listeners and for people who potentially back our book.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sort of the process was I found you through the I think it was the comic book collaborations Reddit page if I remember correctly.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember I put out a call for artists and for letters and I sort of put it like a description of what the story is and what we were hoping to achieve with the book and that it's it's adapted from this audio drama.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's still ongoing and we received I had look through I don't I don't know probably a hundred maybe a hundred fifty I don't know it was a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was I was surprised at how how many people were interested You know I got with one of my buddies Derrick who's a big comic book fan and I sort of leaned on him for some artistic opinions I guess and like what he likes to see and we sort of like
[SPEAKER_00]: We narrow down the list to 10 or so we just keep going back to your to your portfolio that you send because you have such a you have like a very unique art style I think like the way that you do character faces is really interesting to me like a lot of them have like really large ears which I think is like kind of a cool characteristic they're very expressive with their mouths and and I really like looking at their eyes and things like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: We wanted to go with you because you really stood out as far as, like, your artists, your artistic style.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, like, how did you sort of come up with that?
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess, like, was it just a matter of, I'm just going to draw people how they typically look in comic book?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, every artist has different inspiration or the way that they like to do things, but you just look so much different than others than what I've read.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, how did you sort of come up with that character style?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that it has to be with my writing influence with the manga, especially Akira Turyshama.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the first part of the round bowl, he wrote many characters with different faces and expressions like cartoon.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every time I read Turyshama, I think she's a better artist than before.
[SPEAKER_01]: the character expressions.
[SPEAKER_01]: Another great artist that influenced me is Osemonios.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's the artist from Aleksina.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's right, right, a noir comic book.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he has things like a broken characters with great notes, he's a small eyes and things like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And
[SPEAKER_01]: I like the realism in the art, but I think if I have to draw a fiction, make a real fiction where with new characters, new faces, new bodies, and other spaces, some relation between the characters and the backgrounds, I really try to take off their realism and think in a real
[SPEAKER_01]: And the expression is very, very important.
[SPEAKER_01]: in the ambience of the comic.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it's one of the most important things that so I put all my focus on this.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a good thing that you brought up the noses because that was the other thing that I was forgetting to mention is the noses of the characters is something that I really loved in your portfolio and then obviously in the sample page is that you created for the David thing change.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you won, John and Sarah's noses are very unique.
[SPEAKER_00]: something else I wanted to ask you about is sort of like sort of your process.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember we were you and I were talking a little bit on Instagram whenever we decided to do a a variant cover for this issue and you were telling me that like you like to do the the pencils really fast and then you like to like find out some stuff whenever you're doing the inking for for the pages so like what sort of your process like whenever someone sends you like
[SPEAKER_00]: a page or some ideas and then you get to those sorts of things like, you know, what, how do you like to work?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the first time I did the sketch, it very, very fast.
[SPEAKER_01]: It rolled just to just to know how many panels we have in the page.
[SPEAKER_01]: the size, what happened in every panel is a fast, fast draw, has to have an idea of the general page.
[SPEAKER_01]: The second step is the pencil page, and this is one of my favorite parts because it's the most creative part of the work.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the second step, in the pencil step, I draw the characters and the backgrounds and all the information with more detail and before.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very, very funny to me because I think in that step, we can see the expression of the page.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about the movement and the composition.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do these two steps in all in digital, just because if my partner
[SPEAKER_01]: want to change or correct something is easier.
[SPEAKER_01]: The third step is the ink.
[SPEAKER_01]: I print the page just in the Sian color and very clear start to ink in traditional with Chinese ink, brushes, pencils and all the things you can imagine.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is another of my favorite favorite parts.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can see the final work, the inks, the kind of lines, the expression in my chest.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's very, very simple, my process.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have some colleagues that are starting traditional, go to the computer, continue in traditional, go to computer again,
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I started in the computer, later in traditional color in digital, always, and nothing more.
[SPEAKER_00]: The other thing that I wanted to ask you about was, what was it about the story that interests you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why did you want to be a part of this particular project?
[SPEAKER_01]: This project have all the things I love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some of this apocalyptic city, all this chaotic and destroy and I love to draw this kind of things.
[SPEAKER_01]: In your post, in your Reddit post, it said, this is a post apocalyptic story.
[SPEAKER_01]: When I read it, I wanted this and read all the posts and
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought you were a really professional and serious guy, I don't want to work anymore with amateur guys and people we don't have a really compromised with the project.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why, but I feel your compromise with the approach, your professionalism, and the items of the story were amazing for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So simple, some bits, for some of apocalyptic story, all this destroy and chaotic, I love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: As someone who also loves apocalyptic stories, you know, I love the last of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love contagion.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love 20 days later.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just watched.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to read the comic actually from Argentina.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the ethernaot, all that to say, I think that this is a really good match.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that the work shows it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm thrilled with our.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sequential example pages that we made, I'm thrilled with the covers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone I've showed to just in my little circle of friends around here, they really love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm hoping that we have a lot of success with the Kickstarter page and that we can deliver an issue that a lot of people will love and will hopefully come back to and want to read the other ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: was there anything else that you wanted to discuss or talk about on this episode?
[SPEAKER_00]: Anything else you wanted to mention or anything?
[SPEAKER_01]: The day everything changed.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a comic book about the work of three guys we really love their works and I think sensation is in the pages that feeling is in the pages.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you can read the day everything changed, you don't find common and regular comic book.
[SPEAKER_01]: You will find the consequence of the people who do
[SPEAKER_01]: that kind of things that they love and the passion about doing comic books.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you like the 8th round, I would like to recommend Mord Sinder.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mord Sinder is another comic book of Oyster Hill, but in the draws is Albert O'Reacher, who is God.
[SPEAKER_01]: The best of the best ones.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a lot of great comic books here in Argentina,
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm very happy that the internet can expand our comics to the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a pity that sometimes, including here in Argentina, the internet is the greatest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they only comic book.
[SPEAKER_01]: that is very, very popular.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the Argentina comics, we have the Etna route and nothing more is popular, but we have really a lot of comic books like this, a more tender alaxina, a lultimo recreo, the doors of Mr. Lopez.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a really a lot of comics, so I hope you can discover this once in the future.