{"id":1186,"date":"2012-06-21T18:42:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamsvillecomic.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2012-06-21T18:42:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:42:25","slug":"back-inthe-lab-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/back-inthe-lab-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Back In The Lab Again and Great Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well as rappers would say I’m back in the lab again! Time to make comics and get to work. It was really refreshing to take a few days off, sleep and look forward to the small period of rest I have set up for myself for once the book is done. It’s obviously taking a bit longer than I expected, but I am still on pace to be done by September or October at the latest. \u00a0I’ve been trying to step up my production speed a tad without sacrificing quality. \u00a0This week I managed to ink through two pages a night, but I don’t expect that to be\u00a0a pace I will be able to keep rolling, but we will see.<\/p>\n

Doing the math on the process I think it’s all feisible\u00a0it’s just a question of energy and resolve at this point.\u00a0 I’m gonna give it my all knowing I will get there eventually.\u00a0 I can’t show much of what is happening because it’s pretty spoilery at this point and I don’t want to ruin the fun. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I think you’re all going to dig the way this book ends.<\/p>\n

One other note I really wanted to talk about is that there\u00a0have been some great interviews with some of my favorite artists and friends that I think would be really beneficial for others out there.<\/p>\n

Two of them are from Kazu Kibuishi<\/a>, who has had such a huge impact on my art, work ethic and given me so many tools in my tool belt.\u00a0 Without it sounding too sentimental, Kazu’s work was literally life changing to me.\u00a0 I remember vividly sitting in front of my computer desk and seeing the first poster image from Amulet of the house on a\u00a0rock and just staring at it for like thirty minutes wondering what I was doing with my comics and life really.\u00a0
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\nI don’t mean to sound melodramatic, but it was a very clarifying event for me.\u00a0 I knew what I wanted to do and what was possible having seen that image.\u00a0 Since then I’ve had the plesasure of working on the Amulet series and learned so much about making a book as a result of that.\u00a0 Well Kazu has been making the podcast circuit lately and two great interviews recently came up.\u00a0 Give them a listen!<\/p>\n

Kids Comics Are Great – Kazu Interview<\/a>
\nMaking Comics w\/ Jason Brubaker – Kazu and Jason Interview part 1<\/a><\/p>\n

Another comics artist that I really admire and philosophically just find a lot of common ground with things on story wise is Doug TenNapel<\/a>.\u00a0 He also did a couple of fantatsic interviews with Jason over at Making Comics along with Ethan Nicole of Axe Cop<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Making Comics w\/ Jason Brubaker – TenNapel and Nicole interview part 1<\/a>
\nPart 2<\/a><\/p>\n

And finally, one of my bestest friends and just all around great guy and cartoonist Stephen McCranie did an interview with Scott King of Holiday Wars<\/a> fame for Scott’s college course on comics.\u00a0 It’s an open forum q&a and a lot fun stuff comes up.\u00a0 And you get to see Stephen working on a page of Mal and Chad<\/a>!\u00a0 Well worth a watch.<\/p>\n

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