By David Doub What got you into comics? What got you into making comics? I started collecting comics at a very young age, my father gave me his collection from the 70s. It was mostly Batman and X-Men books. I got into making comics after seeing how easy it was to make a high quality book, it seemed easy enough I just needed to have the right artist. What is the Totally Rad Life of Violet about? What inspired you to write it? Violet takes place during the mid 1980s it's about a recovering drug addict who loves to have a good time but also wants to clean up the streets. The story follows our character as she overcomes withdrawal and grief over the lost of a close friend. She trades in drug addiction for sex addiction but in doing so uses it to help her achieve her goals of taking down the local drug kingpin. I was mainly inspired by my love for the 80s but also in my personal life I had a few junkie ex-girlfriends that helped bring my character to life. Why start with a Mature book? Texas isn’t know for being forgiving toward adult focused comics. The simple way to put it is: “sex sells” But I make a mature book in a way that it's not all just sex there's a meaningful message in my book about staying off drugs and being able to forgive yourself during those dark times. Can you describe your process in writing a producing a book? I have a pretty easy process. Most of my scripts I come from my imagination. I use the same artist for most of my books so I write out how each page should look and 99.9% of the time my artist and I are on the same page visually How was your experience doing crowdfunding? My experience so far has been outstanding, being just a average guy who had no pull in the comic book industry no fan base when starting. I've been really fortunate in how quickly I've achieved success and I wouldn't have it without the loyal fans who buy all my products What support and inspiration have you gotten from the Indie Comic Scene? Same questions but with the North Texas Nerd Scene? I've gotten much love and support from Wendy Steen Shaner (Naughty Fairy Stripper Assassins), Cara Nicole and Alfred Trujillo (Firebitch), Dan Mendoza (Still ill) & many others. In North Texas I've gotten much support from a few cosplayers (Captain Ameridad & BCharrlotteD) What are some local creators that you’ve been enjoying? I've been enjoying Chris Hays (Forgotten Isle) and Luis Torres (Ace & Starlet). It's so amazing to see their work come to life and be enjoyed from all over the country. If you could write any character or property, who or what would it be? If you could work with any creator living or dead, who would it be? I'm a huge movie buff so I would really love to write some movie based comics like "The Warriors", "Critters" and "Army of Darkness" to name a few. I would love to work with Gil Kane or Steven Hughes those are definitely my top 2 favorite artist of all time. If money and time was no object, what would be your dream comic to create? I'm technically already making my dream comics but if money wasn't a object I'd be able to put it all out alot faster. What other comics do you have coming up soon? I have quite a few. Cherry #24 from Cherry Comics "Strange Cosmic Tales" coming at the end of April A Totally Rad Life of Violet star wars parody story for May the 4th Totally Rad Babes from Outterspace #1 Totally Rad Life of Violet #3 Neon: The Next Victim #1 coming this summer. What are some of your favorite nerd events in Texas? I really love the North Texas Comic Show as well as the Dallas Comic Show https://www.facebook.com/totallyradcomics19/ |
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