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"Behind the Scenes"
I did an interview with Brian Dunaway and Matt Ducharme of Comics Coast to Coast and I had such a great time talking with these guys! Listen to the interview to hear me talk about Savage Chickens, cartooning tips, San Diego Comic-Con, future projects, and more!
And be sure to check out the rest of the Comics Coast to Coast web site. They’ve got tons of interviews, and it’s a great way to discover new comics.
If you have any follow-up questions about the things I talked about in this interview, throw them into the comments here and I’ll do my best to answer them.
Update: Here are links to some of the specific cartoons mentioned during the interview: Where No Cat Has Gone Before, Chewbacca, First Draft, and Eight Steps.
I was recently interviewed by Brian King over at inkOUTBREAK. Go check it out, and while you’re there you can discover all kinds of great comics! Read the interview.
BOOK UPDATE: Here’s the cover of the Savage Chickens book, Savage Chickens: A Survival Kit for Life in the Coop, which will be published by Perigee Books in March 2011!
Creating the cover was a lot of fun for me. I worked with the awesome Nellys Li, a senior designer from Penguin USA’s Putnam Art Department in NYC. We came up with a bunch of ideas. I mailed Nellys some sketches on sticky notes and she took photos of them in office settings, but that didn’t quite look right so we tried some hand-drawn covers instead. Along the way, we got valuable input from my editor, the publisher, and the sales team. Nellys combined elements from a couple of my drawings to create the final cover above.
Here are a couple of black-and-white sketches of other cover ideas that we considered:
Here’s more information about the book. And you can get book updates and a daily chicken by email — just sign up for my mailing list.
As promised, here’s a behind-the-scenes slideshow of the making of the July Flame music video. To see my descriptions of each picture, go take a look at them here on Flickr.
And if you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the music video.
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