Zack Soto Interview
Tom Spurgeon put up an interview with Zack Soto, whose forthcoming Secret Voice #1 (AdHouse) I have on order. Tom asks incisive questions and you can tell Zack gives a lot of thought to his work. Worth a look.
Bits I’ve extracted from it:
1. “I am a big fan of well-done manga and some of the American-style “decompressed” storytelling, and I do try to get a lot of those moments in there that are more about capturing mood and space than anything else, but I don’t want to sacrifice getting the real meat of the story across. I’ll end up doing little moments as inset panels, so it bolsters the bigger moments, the important plot points, etc. I like trying to give space and the passage of time real specific weight.”
2. Integration of text into the images and background.
3. Using transparent layers of black over colors for shading (something I’ll have to experiment with on Maroon).
4. A link to a long interview with the L’Assocation guys (Trondheim, Menu, David B, Killoffer)
5. Tom brings up the topic of comics pamphlets rather than graphic novels and how there is a real decline in pamphlets with the big graphic novel boom of the recent past. Personally I think it is a matter of more traditional comics readers and newly interested readers. Comics pamphlets are harder to get from stores. You can’t order an issue of a comic from a bookstore or Amazon, you have to go to a comic store. A lot of readers don’t have them nearby or don’t want to go (I’m not a fan of my local stores). I read a few pamphlets these days (Strangehaven, Berlin, Love and Rockets) mostly ones that I know will come out as books but that I like enough that I don’t want to wait that long to read the parts of the story.
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