cool Interview with Mark about his new book Graveyard of Empires:

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Interview with Mark Sable about Graveyard of Empires:

I wanted to try something new, so I put together this interview with my friend, comic writer Mark Sable, about his recent “marines & Taliban versus zombies in Afghanistan” comic co-created with art wunderkind Paul Azaceta, Graveyard of Empires.  I wanted to try to keep it pretty straight and really just see if I could showcase the book, like a proper commercial would.  Except for a home movie of my nephews, it’s the first time I’ve ever filmed anything (first time with sound!)— obviously the first time I ever tried to do lighting.  We used a GoPro, and a used Sony camcorder.

GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES is out this week.  Mark said extremely nice things about Paul, colorist Matt Wilson and Thomas Mauer’s letters that I cut for time, but won’t be… cut out of your heart (?) when you look at the comic.

The closing of Comics Alliance this week is a bummer for the number of admirable writers it “orphans.”  But also: while big comic companies may have sympathetic news organs they can use and discard at their leisure, readers and creators of books like GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES have one less route to find each other.  How does a person “promote” a comic without being, like, all gross?  I don’t know that I thought of any interesting answers to that question, but it was interesting to sit and think about that for a little while.  So thanks to Mark, for indulging me.  

King Ladislas’ last charge… We reached 11k for the drive! http://kck.st/1080qoq #vlad #kickstarter

Thumbs for #vlad - the battle of Varna

Moroi vampire face sketch. Not anything final, working out ideas #vlad

Vlad II Dracul, Voievod of Walachia does not give a fuck. Blocking out the battle of Varna #vlad

Vlad, Vlad “the Monk”, and Radu as boys, from the days at the Scholomance.

Vlad the Impaler 1431–1476 trying to draw 12,13yrs old

Vlad_”the Munk” 1425 - 1495 trying to draw 18yrs old

Radu the Handsome 1435–1475 trying to draw 8yrs old

Ref: Scholomance

A Dragon, for my up coming Son of the Dragon project with Mark Sable. 

Some concept art for this book was at the top of the list of things to do outside of Dream Life, going to build up a three image set of posters for that. Did this and then had a brain storm for a background that’ll make it a great back cover or something? Plan is working, warm up sketch 01 has me excited…

I can’t really complain about Dream Life, i’m doing exactly what i want to with it. But the long current stretch of mostly more mundane reality rooted story line has me thirsting for fantasy again.