My art teacher was a perspective master who took great pains to make sure his students had a solid grasp of the discipline which I have benefited from greatly ever since, so thank you Mr. The only valuable things I learned in all of high school were typing and perspective.
The most valuable art training I had was in grade nine when I learned about perspective. I did take a few extra-curricular art courses when I was a kid, and of course art was always part of school growing up, but I didn’t go to art college or anything (to my chagrin), I just drew and drew and drew, my entire life. Self-taught or formally educated? (or mixture of both, mentors etc…)Īlmost entirely self-taught. You can still see the tear stains on the pages. A quick story about it? I cried like a total pussy as I drew that second Grendel comic because my girlfriend of all of two months dropped me like a wet rag half way through. By that time Comico had folded, Dark Horse was now publishing Grendel, and the internet was only beginning to slowly take over every aspect of our lives. Who knew that job would be the start of nineteen years of pain and torture? And it wasn’t until ‘98 I think that that first Grendel story I did finally saw the light of day. I was 20, I’d been trying to break into the biz since I was like, 16. So that was the first time I ever saw my work in print. This would have been summer ‘90 I drew it, came out by the end of the year. Then later that year they hired me for another Grendel story, this one written by Steve Seagle. For reasons I no longer remember the company, Comico, immediately shelved the project. The first comics work I got paid for was a Grendel story I did in 89.
#THE GUY WHO CRIED GRENDEL PROFESSIONAL#
I want to read me some Godhead.įirst professional work (piece / year) and maybe a quick story behind it. What follows below is 4000 words that are equal parts inspiring and heartbreaking.
#THE GUY WHO CRIED GRENDEL SERIES#
The portrait below is the only photo thus far in the Masters of Ink series that I’ve taken personally. I followed up by email (which is how I conducted this interview). We shared a couple of beers downtown and engaged in a 2-hour conversation. When passing through Toronto last summer I couldn’t resist looking him up and finally meeting the man in person. We got Ho to write a blurb for the back cover of Rex. This time it was Danijel Zezelj who hooked me up with him by email. Many years went by before I ran across Ho again. Soon after I bought I Want to be Your Dog (from Eros) at my local comic shop and became a lifelong fan. Romance.I first read the work of Ho Che Anderson back in the 1990’s when I ran across the first volume of his King trilogy in an indie bookshop in Montreal. Unfinished Business for being pretty much the only Snape/Hermoine shipping story that I've ever been willing to tolerate. The Master of the Deathly Hollows becomes the wizarding representative of Manos, Judge of the Dead to Middle Earth.īrowncoat, Green Eyes Harry Potter joins the crew of the Serenity as their new pilot. When in Doubt, Obliviate! Premise: What if Harry Potter was raised by Gilderoy Lockhart? Comedy.ĭoomsman's Herald Silmarillion crossover. Comedy.ĭelenda Est Premise: Harry Potter gets sent back in time and meets Pre-Evil Bellatrix Black. Harry Potter and the Natural 20 Premise: a boy wizard from the D&D universe gets sent to Hogwarts. I'll be the first to admit that I have weird taste, though. I've always been more of a Harry Potter fan though.
Also good was Shinji and WH40K which is basically Evangelion if the main character were raised by Orks. The basic premise is "What if the protagonists from Naruto were trapped in the time loop from Groundhog day?" Definitely seconding that one. I personally thought Time Braid was pretty good.