![]() Business & Finance Click to expand menu.PC: For a fun ride, with heart and truth along the way, and an insight into the medium we love. You’re not going to randomly run into your friends and/or industry contacts who can help your career, so arrange to meet them in advance.ĪIPT: Why should any non-comics pro individual pick up issue #1? PC: Know in advance what you’re there for, and plan plan plan. Leaping ahead several years with each issue I hope starkly illuminates how much certain things have changed and how much certain things have stayed exactly the damn same.ĪIPT: Any advice for surviving or making the most out of a comic con? Also, a couple of our cast are on a proper hero’s journey, but I don’t want to give away who gets to do that.ĪIPT: What’s the aim of pushing this story out over the span of several decades? Have cons gotten better, worse, or some combination across this span? It becomes clear, I think, that she’s the voice of reason in the book. PC: I really love Val Molson, the average fan, who likes to see panels with a specific actor on them, but is under no illusions about the state of his career. It’s an act of love and fellow feeling, not an act of revenge.ĪIPT: Do you have a favorite character? How do you make someone feel truly compelling and personable in a satirical tale? ![]() Also, there’s compassion for just about everyone here. PC: Not really, because I’m not taking aim at any real individuals, but instead at types. PC: Well, Marika’s great at using reference to give us a feeling of what it’s like to, for instance, sit in a long line waiting for a big panel, or be in a park with cosplayers and the homeless.ĪIPT: Do you worry at all about satirizing an industry you’re a part of? Were you concerned about offending others or even some colleagues? What are the challenges of depicting a world that mostly takes place in giant convention centers? We take a big cast over several decades in a tragicomic style with heart.ĪIPT: I think Marika Cresta’s art is really dynamic here. PC: I think that’s a very good point of reference. Does that style and pacing feel accurate? What other titles/properties helped shape this story? Though it must be said, one of our characters also does something egregious in failing to help a friend, and I hope I haven’t been guilty of that.ĪIPT: Someone praised this as being in the vein of Robert Altman films. Stories don’t have to always be about winners, and should be comforts to those who haven’t succeeded in a particular area. Dealing with failure, and coming to a place of being reconciled to it, is I think an area that aren’t doesn’t venture into enough. ![]() ![]() PC: I think I’m partially one of the targets of my own work here, in that one of our leads is a creator who doesn’t make the most of his opportunities at one point, rather like I did. That’s just what writer Paul Cornell ( Saucer Country) and artist Marika Cresta ( Captain Carter) have opted to do with their brand-new miniseries.Ĭon & On is a five-part affair best described as a “fantastic and funny satire of the comic book industry and its biggest conventions.” Framed around the fictional Vista Al Mar Comics Festival, we explore “five different years in the life of the festival” (which includes various perspectives, including aspiring young creators Eddie and Deja and “crusty veteran editors.”) The end result lambasts the nerdish pageantry of comics while dissecting the “desperate people whose lives revolve around this greatest show on Earth.” And yet Con & On is just as much a love letter to comics itself, exploring these personalities and compulsive behaviors in a way that shows the pure heart of any true comics fan and/or creator.ĪIPT: How much of this is you working out your own problems with the comics industry? Or do you try to avoid making it so personable somehow? But if you love something, you can also poke a little fun at it. It’s often overly dedicated readers obsessing about pretend characters, and that fandom has more than once proven to be especially toxic. But even if you’re a true die-hard fan, you may still be able to recognize that comics can sometimes be a little hokey. If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you love comics. ![]()
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