You can pre-order a copy of Princeless volume 2 #1 from DCBService.com, or ask your local comic book retailer to order a copy and they will have it waiting for you when it is released on February 27th next year!
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Showing posts with label Jeremy Whitley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeremy Whitley. Show all posts
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Creator Interview: Jeremy Whitley & Emily C. Martin
Friday, November 30, 2012
Episode 20: Hereville Book 2
Chris, Dylan, and Vicky discuss the second book in Barry Deutsch's Hereville saga. Does it live up to the first book? Will Chris and Dylan shut up about their tablets? Listen and find out!
If you haven't read the first book in this series, and you are a fan of Princeless, you really should grab a copy. Makes a great gift this holiday season.
Speaking of Princeless, Jeremy Whitley & Action Lab Entertainment were kind enough to share the first 5 pages of volume 2 with us. It's in this month's Previews, so badger your local comic book shop and demand they order a copy for you!
Watch for our interview with Jeremy and Emily C. Martin in the next few weeks!
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Creator Interview: Jeremy Whitley (now with 100% more audio!)
Aurora, Dylan, Nicole and Vicky conduct this oddly Whovian interview with Jeremy Whitley months in advance, and everyone does their best Timelord impressions trying to imagine ourselves to be in July of 2012.
We talked to Jeremy about two series he has available for pre-order at your local comic book shop, and in this month's Previews. The new Princeless "Short Stories for Warrior Women" mini-series, as well as the first Action Lab Entertainment printing of The Order of Dagonet are both books you don't want to miss!
Jeremy talks about saying goodbye to M. Goodwin as the artist on Princeless, working with Jules Rivera the creator of Valkyrie Squadron, and Princeless' new regular artist Emily C. Martin. He also talks about his Eisner nominations, how Princeless has given him recognition in some unlikely ways, and the pangs of working in comics while juggling a day job.
And for those of you who have been enjoying the Firetower Studios/Comic Book of the Month Podcast feud, things reach their epic climax. And trust us, you do NOT want to miss this episode!
The intro music is "Sparklegirl" by Letters to Cleo
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Indie Spotlight #2: Firetower Studios
Chris, Dylan, & Keith gather around the laptop for a little over an hour to talk about the smorgasbord of webcomics produced by Firetower Studios. Listen to Chris spew good-natured bile!
New updates every weekday!
Mondays: Jeremy Whitley and Jason on "Faerie Sisters", a webcomic tie in to The Order of Dagonet
Every other Tuesday: Jeremy and Alicia on "Hot Interracial Marriage" a diary comic on interracial relationships, parenting, and life.
Every other Tuesday: Charlie's "Crazy Normal" a commentary and satire cartoon in one panel
Thursdays: Jeremy and Charlie's "Ennui of the Dead" a look at the lives, times, and melancholy of the long undead.
Both the Crew and you the listeners are rather lucky it took this long for us to review their work. All of these web comics have finished up their first storyline, so there is a wealth of strips to get you into their crazy world. The comics Firetower Studios produces are very unique, and we look forward to seeing this group as they continue to develop. If you would like to purchase the first trade paperback of "The Order of Dagonet" (which if you're in the mood for crazy fantasy adventure in a modern setting with psychedelic coloring, you really should!), you can buy it from their store.
We also discuss the wonderful world of comics litigation for about 15 minutes towards the end. The song is Feuer Frei by Rammstein
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We will be back in two weeks time with our Book of the Month Episode featuring VERY NEAR MINT by Justin Peterson. Stick around, we know you're all going to love it!
Monday, February 13, 2012
Creator Interview: Jeremy Whitley, Founder of Firetower Studios
While you are waiting for the next episode to be posted, we thought we'd share this interview we did with Jeremy Whitley. He was able to take time out from his busy schedule of writing five web comics for Firetower Studios, Princeless and his day job to answer a few questions. Even after the Indie Spotlight episode is posted, we plan on doing more interviews with each of the Firetower creators over the next few weeks.
CBotMP: Jeremy, what is your comics origin
story? (what got you into sequential art to begin with?)
JEREMY WHITLEY: My dad got me into comics when
I was a kid and we had a great comic store just down the street from us in Livermore
CA. When we moved to North Carolina I didn't have a local shop and kind
of lost touch with comics. However, in that time I ended up going to
college for English and Creative Writing. A few years after graduating I
discovered comics again thanks to Joss Whedon and his Astonishing X-Men
. Before I knew it, I was spending $40 a
month on comic books and borrowing trades and graphic novels. Eventually
I decided that there was an idea I had for a story that I really wanted to see
in comic book form, so all that was left was to find an illustrator. So I
did what any serious writer would do...I posted an ad on craigslist.
. Before I knew it, I was spending $40 a
month on comic books and borrowing trades and graphic novels. Eventually
I decided that there was an idea I had for a story that I really wanted to see
in comic book form, so all that was left was to find an illustrator. So I
did what any serious writer would do...I posted an ad on craigslist.
CBotMP: And did you have much success?
JW: Well, Charlie Harper answered
that Craigslist ad and invited me up to the local coffee shop where he had an
art meetup so that we could discuss the project. I decided to stick
around and met another artist named Jason Strutz. A lot of
things happened, but a few months later we were sitting around a table in
Barnes & Noble discussing officially forming a studio.
CBotMP: I can see it's grown quite a bit since then. How did the other creators become involved?
JW: Well, Alicia & I met a
long time ago in an English class. If you read Hot Interracial Marriage, that first arc is more or less true to
life.
As for Rich, a year and a half ago we were at an outdoor festival in
Raleigh with our tent full of comic books. We were approached by this
snappily dressed man who said, "Aw man, I always wanted to do what you
guys are doing...and you're doing it. That's so cool." We
invited him to come to our weekly drawing/writing meetups and he brought some
ideas he was working on. When we started talking about doing webcomics we
were looking for more artists to contribute and his name immediately came up.
CBotMP: Rich's work is excellent. Switching direction over to the medium itself, why did you decide on webcomics?
JW: We've been working on print
comics for what feels like so long...and it's such a long game. Being an
indy publisher and having real full time jobs, we were forced to disappear for
months between issues. Having a creative output where we get to tell
stories, get them where people can see them immediately, and not have to spend
money we don't have on printing is a huge plus for us. Not to mention, we
can tell stories like Werewolf D.A.,
which at times just feels to crazy to exist in a printed form.
CBotMP: You're not kidding. Firetower Studios "flagship book" is The Order of Dagonet. Where did the idea come from?
JW: During one of those first
artist meetups Jason brought a portfolio of some of his paintings. I
found one of Titania and Bottom that reminded me of an idea I had for having
modern knights do battle with actual mythological creatures. I went home
that night and wrote a script for a first issue. I brought it to the
meetup the next week and not so subtly asked Jason to read it.
After reading and chuckling, he asked how I'd feel about him taking a
crack at illustrating it. I, of course, was thrilled with the idea.
CBotMP: How much research was done for
Dagonet?
JW: A few hours of direct research
into trying to find good candidates for the order and learning about obscure
English royalty. Most of the rest is from memory. I've read a lot
of fantasy and I was an English major in college, so it's largely made up of
things I already knew.
CBotMP: Where do the characters come
from? Are they amalgams of people you know?
JW: Well, most of them are
amalgams of real people who are actual knights. Well, amalgams may
actually be putting it kindly in the cases of Dizzy and Emerald particularly.
Tottington is a little bit of Ian McKellen and a little bit of Peter
O'Toole. Everyman is...well, he's a rather cynically minded Neil Gaiman to be
frank. The only truly original characters are LaVerne and my faeries.
All three of them are bits and pieces of people I know and love.
CBotMP: Each one of the web comics has
a very distinct style and feel. Yet they are all written by you. Do you try and write for your artists, or
do they have a rather strong say in the creative process?
JW: A little bit of both. A
lot of what I do in Faerie Sisters
garners its inspiration from what Jason has done in the book. The style
and format is all him and the goofy faerie girls are all me. Alicia is
co-writer on Hot Interracial Marriage,
so quite often she decides what story she wants to tell and suggests it to me.
Usually I just specialize in the formatting (and I wrote most of the
first arc, which is all true by the way). Rich and Charlie have the least
to do with what I wrote, as I really started writing those strips before we had
officially started the webcomics, but both of them have made the art their own
in ways that are impossible to underestimate. Charlie likes to challenge
himself to do neat tricks with panel formatting and storytelling. Rich,
however, just bleeds art onto the page. I couldn't have chosen a better
style for the primal nature of these pages.
CBotMP: How far ahead are these stories
mapped out?
JW: Am I supposed to map them out
ahead of time? That's only kind of a joke. I had a huge lead on
everyone when we started this thing, but while I've been paying attention to Princeless stuff, that has quickly
evaporated. I really need a vacation so I can get some work done.
CBotMP: Any teasers you would like to
tell our audience about future story lines?
JW: Well, Faerie Sisters is into its second storyline now and is going to
continue to be wacky in the upcoming "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
story. Werewolf D.A. is headed
inside the courtroom, as Maya is about to find out she's not the only legal
professional with a few supernatural tricks up her sleeve. Ennui of the Dead is just going to go
plain crazy with a little WWII action, some True Blood
inspired naughtiness, and more examples of immortals having
absolutely no sense of responsibility.
inspired naughtiness, and more examples of immortals having
absolutely no sense of responsibility. Thursday, December 22, 2011
Indie Spotlight #1!
Chris, Dylan, Keith & Nicole polish off a recording marathon with a 45m+ Indie Spotlight.
A really special thanks goes out to Jeremy Whitley who graciously gave us several Action Lab Entertainment books to cover (Which we continually botch by calling it Action Labs. DOH!)
We cover Snowed In written by Shawn Gabborin and drawn by Rick Lundeen, where five people find themselves faced with a monster they can't see. It's Lovecraft meets cabin fever (the mental state, NOT the film) in this fun little indie romp with moody lighting and interiors lovingly rendered by Rick Lundeen.
Back in the Day written by Dave Dwonch and drawn by Daniel Logan, tells the story of three friends going back in time to the far out 80s to save their past selves from their inevitably boring future. Along the way tragedy ensues and the three friends have to set things right, and it's all drawn with Daniel Logan's slick pen. Definitely not like any other comic out there... IN A GOOD WAY.
Vapor Trails: Chapter 1 by Will Strode, shows us a dystopian future where human's are caught in a battle between aliens and animals... maybe? He only has chapter one up so far, and what's there is hysterical and leaves you hungry for more!
Doctor Muscles #1 written by Austin Tinius & Robert Salinas and drawn by Andrew Whyte, where Austin Tinius gives us yet another classic sci-fi adventure like you've never seen before... Yet feels as familiar as your worst nightmares as a kid.
And we cap off the night with the fun and frolic of Princeless #2 written by Jeremy Whitley and drawn by M. Goodwin! This book has not let the crew down yet! After the first issue seemed to lay out a pretty straightforward course, Jeremy Whitley manages to show you just how rich this little world really is, all while amazing you with the expressiveness of M. Goodwin's art. AND ISSUE THREE IS COMING TO A COMIC STORE NEAR YOU SOON!
The intro song is "Indier Than Thou" by MC Frontalot from the album "Nerdcore Rising"
And remember! Next month is Luci's Letdown by Marjee Chmiel and drawn by Sandra Lanz. Which we will soon be selling digitally in our online store for only $5! We will let you all know when it is available. Or if you're not yet down with the digital revolution, you can order a print copy from Marjee Chmiel and Sandra Lanz as well.
Back in the Day written by Dave Dwonch and drawn by Daniel Logan, tells the story of three friends going back in time to the far out 80s to save their past selves from their inevitably boring future. Along the way tragedy ensues and the three friends have to set things right, and it's all drawn with Daniel Logan's slick pen. Definitely not like any other comic out there... IN A GOOD WAY.
Vapor Trails: Chapter 1 by Will Strode, shows us a dystopian future where human's are caught in a battle between aliens and animals... maybe? He only has chapter one up so far, and what's there is hysterical and leaves you hungry for more!
Doctor Muscles #1 written by Austin Tinius & Robert Salinas and drawn by Andrew Whyte, where Austin Tinius gives us yet another classic sci-fi adventure like you've never seen before... Yet feels as familiar as your worst nightmares as a kid.
And we cap off the night with the fun and frolic of Princeless #2 written by Jeremy Whitley and drawn by M. Goodwin! This book has not let the crew down yet! After the first issue seemed to lay out a pretty straightforward course, Jeremy Whitley manages to show you just how rich this little world really is, all while amazing you with the expressiveness of M. Goodwin's art. AND ISSUE THREE IS COMING TO A COMIC STORE NEAR YOU SOON!
The intro song is "Indier Than Thou" by MC Frontalot from the album "Nerdcore Rising"
And remember! Next month is Luci's Letdown by Marjee Chmiel and drawn by Sandra Lanz. Which we will soon be selling digitally in our online store for only $5! We will let you all know when it is available. Or if you're not yet down with the digital revolution, you can order a print copy from Marjee Chmiel and Sandra Lanz as well.
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