PODCAST 121608 Brahm Revel pt1


- new comic book series, published by Image Comics: Guerillas

    * from Brahm's website: "GUERILLAS follows a hapless new recruit who falls in with a troop of specially trained chimpanzees during the Vietnam War. As they hump through the damp jungles of Southeast Asia it becomes unclear if these chimps are a stable fighting unit, or an erratic and volatile pack of animals..."

- On the schedule of working as a freelancer and finishing his own comic book series.

- Early influences

    * Ninja Turtles, Wolverine, and X-men.

    * His mom, a big fan of comic books and anime such as Love and Rockets and Akira

- High School Years: Learning under Spain Rodriguez, the famous underground comic book artist.

- College Years

- On early sketches of superhero figures.

- Comic book genres not of super hero flavors influencing today's readers, e.g. manga.

- The role of women in the indie comic book scene.

- The Ninja Turtles as an inspiration to Guerillas.

- On his experience with Glass Eye Pix right out of college