S.P.A.C.E. 2016 Indie Comics Con (SPACE Part 2)

[Music] so can you possibly describe what your creative process is for making these Comics yes you've got to be extremely bored and then extremely creative and to get out of your board quite honestly I really just like to laugh and if I can make myself laugh it's kind of like airplane Theory I take care of myself and then I can take care of you guys so I laugh first and then I hopefully pass on the laughs to you guys so how long does it take for a project to start and then finish about 40 years I'm 407 no I'm kidding actually you it depends on how inspired you are for myself I you know I have a lot of these ideas cooking all the time so it's pretty much like writing a song in the middle of your head and then just coming out with it on paper uh so generally I would say I come up with about four books a year you know but I've got about nine planned ahead of time so I know where I'm going what does it take to publish something of this size money just money just money is seriously you know seriously a lot of people try to uh get their ideas off the ground and it takes about a publisher you know but like with all the uh independent publishing companies that are out there um you've got Lulu you've got create space really it just takes money finish your idea get it done get your idea done people and then print it up it's as simply as that you know because all this stuff here I just finished the ideas print it up and put it in mon table it only takes one or 40 what is your most successful project right now it's the fried pickle Noir it's the sin city meets vegetales starring Q cumbersome Pi for pickled investigator consider it to be like mob stories for fruits and vegetables trying to bump each other off mob style in a seedless city called the pits it started off being uh like a knockoff in the scary tales Comics but it just sort of blew up and became its own thing and like snowballs and you know uh it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger going downhill and do you have any advice for young people who are wanting to come out and make their comic book dreams a reality yes again I go back to it finish your idea the world needs new product they need new stories new ideas when Hellboy and the tick and teenage mut Turtles came out no one wanted them because we had Batman and Spider-Man but now look it so you know look you're writing the next comic books guys so keep it up finish your ideas and print them up and then you can have a failing pickle too [Music] so could you give us a quick rundown of what exactly all this is oh sure you know aama the Undiscovered animal is a Cleveland's resident superhero it's an ongoing comic book series um this is the first collection I hold in my hand here the first five issue um we've been doing the comic uh it's kind of an homage to 1970s Marvel Bronze Age stuff like the original Spider-Man Iron Man all the Avengers and all that stuff we grew up reading and loved um so we decided this to do our own comic kind of based on that or it's kind of a retro comic um but it's about a Hungarian ice cream truck driver in Cleveland who discovers a way to unlock the powers of the most Savage Beast man has never known which is the apama the Undiscovered animal how big of an investment is something of this proportion well you know for us the investment is mostly time you know cuz we don't we don't really make money on it so initially we started off by by putting in our own money we got to a point where by doing all this work we kind of break even which for us since this something we enjoy doing is is good enough you know um and then of course there's always cances down the road you know to maybe start seeing some return on investment but you know just getting a positive response from people people uh you know who enjoy reading the book I mean that that's really what we're looking to get out of it how did you really get into the Indie book comic scene well um I think we got into the scene um just by uh trying to really go out and network with people you know we used to go to a lot of these shows um when we were kind of laying the groundwork for you know finding an artist and and doing all the work that goes into putting this together and kind of learning what we needed to do in the first place um so it was just kind of a natural moving into you know once we once we got that uh that part of a done you know start kind of going out and actually getting on this side of the table so could you give me a brief rundown of what exactly you're selling here sure go ahead uh we have a long running web comic that we started back in 2002 is called no need for Bushido Bushido is the way of the warrior in feudal Japan uh that is the time period that the comic takes place uh the basic plot synopsis is that a princess from a feudal CL runs away from an arranged marriage at the same time the guy she's supposed to marry also runs away from the arranged marriage uh and because they both ran away they start a war between their two Clans and then they are spending the rest of the comic trying to end the war and it's a comedy so coming out of college were you guys lost in the whole making a comic sort of experience and how did how did you come full circle to this point so no need for Bido is something that I like to consider a hobby that pays for itself and that is just something fun that we did if we if we absolutely derived no enjoyment from it we wouldn't actually do it so coming out of college we uh we do our own things I'm a web developer uh Alex is a video game illustrator uh so uh this is not our this is just an anchor of something fun that we do um going out of college we realized that that wasn't going to be our entire career [Music] [Music]