Discussion and Book Signing
Oct. 28th, 2010 12:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threadpirateSo last night, I was looking at Twitter and I see this message that Milo Ventimiglia was going to be at this Borders that is... well... sort of close enough to me to justify going. >.> And I called my friend Viv and was like... SO GUESS WHERE WE'RE GOING!
And she let me drag her around. :D
Anyways, so the boys from DiVide Pictures were doing this talk over Berserker and Rest, which are comics for those who don't know, and it was really interesting. They talked about the challenges they've faced getting into this business being independent publishers as they are, and the business red tape and such things that seem to put the brakes on some projects. I really appreciated their honesty about the difficulties, and the encouragement that those difficulties can be handled if you know how to do it. And do your research. And get to know people. Whew.
They also talked about the process of taking an idea and turning it into a comic. And the artist, Rick was his name, talked about the symbolism in the art in Berserker, and how in depth they take their research... he works with the National Academy of Sciences, which I think is pretty cool as well as being an awesome resource to tap.
What else, what else...
They were pretty much awesome, the audience had a lot of questions and everything... they ended up talking about things like how Russ Cundiff is a foodie and told embarrassing stories about him in Miromoto's restaurant in NYC... and how MV is into photography.
Ironically, my friends thought everyone would ask about Heroes, but no one did. It came up in conversation but peripherally. One person did ask about Gilmore Girls, though. XD
Anyways! The talk was about an hour, then we went on to the signing, which was also cool. I brought a print out of the cover page of Walking on Broken Glass and a poster Caytlin had drawn for MV since she wasn't around to go to the talk herself. And he and Russ both liked the art! They were really sweet about me shoving the comic at them, as well as the fact that I'd brought a gift. I got books signed, too, of course! And Viv and I chatted with them a little and took pictures and it was an all around good time.
So.
That's the story of why I'm glad I gave in and got a twitter.
And she let me drag her around. :D
Anyways, so the boys from DiVide Pictures were doing this talk over Berserker and Rest, which are comics for those who don't know, and it was really interesting. They talked about the challenges they've faced getting into this business being independent publishers as they are, and the business red tape and such things that seem to put the brakes on some projects. I really appreciated their honesty about the difficulties, and the encouragement that those difficulties can be handled if you know how to do it. And do your research. And get to know people. Whew.
They also talked about the process of taking an idea and turning it into a comic. And the artist, Rick was his name, talked about the symbolism in the art in Berserker, and how in depth they take their research... he works with the National Academy of Sciences, which I think is pretty cool as well as being an awesome resource to tap.
What else, what else...
They were pretty much awesome, the audience had a lot of questions and everything... they ended up talking about things like how Russ Cundiff is a foodie and told embarrassing stories about him in Miromoto's restaurant in NYC... and how MV is into photography.
Ironically, my friends thought everyone would ask about Heroes, but no one did. It came up in conversation but peripherally. One person did ask about Gilmore Girls, though. XD
Anyways! The talk was about an hour, then we went on to the signing, which was also cool. I brought a print out of the cover page of Walking on Broken Glass and a poster Caytlin had drawn for MV since she wasn't around to go to the talk herself. And he and Russ both liked the art! They were really sweet about me shoving the comic at them, as well as the fact that I'd brought a gift. I got books signed, too, of course! And Viv and I chatted with them a little and took pictures and it was an all around good time.
So.
That's the story of why I'm glad I gave in and got a twitter.
