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Bryan Lee O'Malley is a cartoonist. He lives in Los Angeles.
BIO |
PREHISTORY
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LOST AT SEA
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SCOTT PILGRIM
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The worst Q&A
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Please read previous answers: http://radiomaru.tumblr.com/tagged/asksorry everyone i’m sick today but here’s my best attempt at a Q&A for my fans…
Q. You probably get asked this a lot but what’s your advice for people who want to create their own graphic novel ?
A. bleggghhhhhhhh
Q. I really want to know how you pitched your idea to Oni Press? What would you recommend to other comic book creators who want to get published?
A. bleggghghghghhghgh i don’t knowwwww
Q. Could you tell us a bit more about Lisa Miller? She’s my favorite character in the entire series and I know she’s got a bit of a cult following. Will you ever explore her character in the future? What about those “alternate Lisa Miller” almost cyborg-looking designs you posted? What was she up to before she met up with Scott at the mall? What did she end up doing after she left?
A. BLEGHG
Q. Have you ever drawn yourself as a background character in Scott Pilgrim? Because i think i saw someone that looks like you in Volume 5.
A. blegh i’m all over the place
Q. I apologize if you’ve answered this before, but Raleigh works in the Mexican restaurant in SP Volume 2, right? I just need confirmation.
A. looks just like her
Q. When you just started out making comics, did you have any experience in do-it-yourself printing? I’ve just completed a short comic and I’d like to showcase it at a local comic fest. I’d like to try to be as professional as I can, but seriously, I can’t think of a way to actually print out tons of copies besides going out to Staples. Any tips you could give to a budding comic writer/artist so I can appear more professional and get my name out there?A. go to staples everyone does it it’s called minicomics
Q. Are you using assistants on your current projects? I don’t recall reading the exact reasoning for using them on the last book(s), but I assume it was deadlines (and the books turned out looking fantastic!). So, do you enjoy that method of working, or are you going solo?
A. i prolly will find help later because i waste all my time writing and have no time left for inking
Q. The alternate film ending (Scott leaves with Knives) got me thinking as to whether or not there were other pairings in the end that you thought were “suitable” - obviously Volume 6 is about Scott coming to terms with the mistakes in his past and coming to “own” them, and coming to terms that he and Ramona might not be perfect together, and trying to get it to work. Do you think it could’ve ended as well with Scott and Knives, or Scott and Lisa, or any other pairing I’m forgetting?
A. OTP ooonnnlllyyy
Q. First off id like to say im in lesbians with Scott Pilgrim the Series (and the movie)! I immediately fell in lesbians with Kim Pine ♡ Would you mind telling us Kim Pine fans about her birthday and if she will ever date anyone because of her personality! Thanks and you ROCK!!!!!
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Q&A for may 27, 2012
IN THIS EDITION… swearing, webcomics, the invisibles, the secret origin of scott pilgrim’s giant eyes, my top five NES games, and… did ramona cheat on the twins?
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Please read previous answers: http://radiomaru.tumblr.com/tagged/askQ. in lost at sea and some of your shorter comics there’s strong language pretty much throughout. in scott pilgrim and some of your other other comics it’s fairly moderate. is this like a conscious decision you make after you come up with the story but before you start writing dialogue? also are you not cool with depicting nudity?
A. hi… um, so, in Lost at Sea and my earlier stuff there is definitely more swearing. After Lost at Sea came out, i read it and heard back from people and saw it through new eyes i guess and realized it was a LOT of swearing. i mean, me and my friends certainly swore a lot in our late teens and early twenties, it’s not like i was just storing all my swears to put in writing. It’s just how i talked and how i thought.
But anyway, as a personal challenge to myself, i decided to drop the swearing to like a “PG-13” level in Scott Pilgrim book 1. It was really hard at first, but i came to feel that it can be a crutch to use ‘fucking’ all the time instead of the whole rest of the dictionary. Swearing can be creative and fun but other words are important too.
am i not cool with depicting nudity? wha? I don’t see how there would have been a place for nudity in SP or Lost at Sea. But yeah, since you ask, i guess i’m not that cool with it. I like nudity just fine but i don’t like drawing it that much and I will probably refrain from using much of it in my work for the foreseeable future. maybe it’s because i was raised catholic or maybe i’m just bad at anatomy.
Q. Do you read any webcomics? What are your favorites? Also I love you
A. yeah, i like lots of webcomics, and I read these ones regularly:
octopus pie (Meredith Gran)
bad machinery (John Allison)
hark a vagrant (Kate Beaton)
pictures for sad children (John Campbell)
homestuck (i’m kinda 800 pages behind on it right now though which isn’t even that much if you know homestuck)i also have been reading Achewood since like the very beginning and i still enjoy it whenever he updates. A true modern classic. Also i love you
Q. is some part of you bummed that you wrote sp with an ending? like are there times you’d still like to be working with those characters, maybe telling different, less epic stories? or were you happy to wrap that up and move on
A. hi, i feel like this is a loaded question or something or like you’re trying to trap me somehow.
here’s the thing: no. I am not bummed that the comic had an ending. It always had an ending. the ending was written in the dna of the story. He fights the guy, they figure shit out, the end. it’s just how it works.
that said, yes, i still like the characters and sometimes i have ideas for what i could do with them in a future story. but comics take a lot of time and energy and right now I want to put that energy toward something new. So, like i’ve said here before, i’m doing this book Seconds and then i’m moving on to a completely new different series that won’t be scott pilgrim or seconds or lost at sea or anything else old. It’ll be new. But i’ll try to make it really good and hopefully people will like it almost as much as scott pilgrim.
Q. What is the process of making a comic? LIke how do you get it from your computer to the shelves?
A. ok, I think this is a very complicated question but here’s the one sentence version: I make up a story and draw it on paper and scan it into a computer and send it to a publisher who puts it together in virtual book format and then sends it to a printer where they print real physical books and then they send it to a distributor who then sends it to book stores, which have shelves.
Q. What is the story behind Scott and alcohol? As it’s often mentioned how he doesn’t drink during the events in the books/film, with the exception of a G&T and a couple of beers Ramona makes him drink, yet there was a mention of a drunken experience by Comeau.
A. hm. was that not clear? In the book anyway i intended it to be clear that scott only started saying “I don’t drink” after his drunk fight with Envy on New Years Eve. Like maybe he drank regularly in his dark mysterious past, and everyone kind of rolls their eyes when he says he doesn’t drink, because they all think of him as a drinker. I guess that wasn’t actually clear.
Q. Hello! I’ve been curious for a while as to if there is any real connection between your Gideon, and Gideon Stargraves from The Invisibles. I’d heard you were a fan of the series, and I’d wondered if it meant anything. Also, did you pick up Flex Mentallo? I think it’s Grant’s best meta-work on comics & creativity! Can you dig it?
A. hello. There is no real connection between Gideon from SP and Gideon from Invisibles. I read all of Invisibles a year or two before i started SP, but Gideon was named specifically after a different gideon, and Graves was an homage to Agent Graves from 100 BULLETS, my other favorite Vertigo comic.
i did read Flex, and i love it, it’s really good. I love the Invisibles a lot too and I also love the Filth and i also love Seaguy.
Q. In ‘Lost at Sea’, the art style is obviously a little different to Scott Pilgrim, given that you did it a year beforehand. In particular, the eyes were kind of simplified lines, and it occured to me that they show less emotion than the big SP ones. Was this a decision made to show Raleigh’s detachment from her emotions and the emotions of others? Or are the eyes different by the time SP was drawn simply because of art style evolution? Thanks!
A. well, in high school, I used to always draw round ‘vacant’ eyes like that, like Little Orphan Annie eyes. i dunno why, and people always commented on it. Later on i got into anime and started drawing big anime eyes, and the earliest Lost at Sea sketches had kinda shiny anime eyes, but the more i drew the characters the eyes simplified and became little vacant round eyes. There was no conscious decision as far as i recall.
with SP, i started out drawing them all with little round lost at sea eyes, but they wanted something bolder, and eventually i was inspired by a friend’s obsessive drawings of Clarice, the girl reindeer from the old stop-motion Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer cartoon. Her eyes are big and crazy with all-black irises, and they directly influenced the eyes in SP.
Q. Top five NES games?today’s list…
megaman 2 (the purest most bestest game)
river city ransom (the most funnest game of all time)
startropics (i still get the music stuck in my head when i think about it)
super mario 3 (all-time ultimate game of my generation)
final fantasy OR dragon warrior 4 (i can’t decide, they both rule)honorable mentions 6-10:
double dragon 2 (incredibly weird in the best 80s way)
super mario 2 (i was deeply obsessed with it)
battletoads (i really did beat it)
solstice (mostly cause i just heard that andrew hussie hates it; it’s actually amazing)no zelda. I never owned a zelda game. Link to the Past and the GBA ones were the only ones i ever really played much. i only had startropics :(
Q. Did Ramona really date each of the Katayanagi twins behind each other’s back? This is almost certainly the cruelist and more duplicious thing she ever does or is said to have done, yet it’s completely glossed over? What’s Ramona’s side of that story?A. there’s a really complicated story there which I really wanted to put in the book but somehow it got dropped. I guess I was scared to say too much about Ramona, but I think i erred on the side of caution. It is my sincere hope to write & draw a new bonus chapter of book 5 dealing with this flashback and include it in the color version (spring 2014).
Q. Do you have predetermined measurements for panels and page layouts? Do you have a set of rules regarding this? I have only created a few pages ever, but when I did I set up a somewhat rigid system where gutters on top and bottom were a certain distance, gutters on either side were a certain distance, and the distance from the edge of the page was a certain length (unless I was letting a panel bleed over. It looked good but it was really time-consuming. Do you think there’s a better approach?
A. the Scott Pilgrim approach was motivated by extreme laziness, but also shrewd cunning. I cut an 11x14 page in half, making two 7x11 pages. I ruled the page at about 1/8 inch on the “spine” side of the page (right side for left-hand pages, left side for right-hand pages) and then i just drew the page and didn’t worry about margins. Scott Pilgrim pages were mostly full-bleed, which meant a lot less measuring, which meant things moved a bit more quickly overall.
I scanned the whole page in my 8.5x11 sized scanner, pasted it in to my existing page size (3150 x 4613 pixels, 600 dpi) and cropped it so the edges of my drawing wouldn’t be visible in print.
Starting with volume 4, i got a big 11x17 scanner and started drawing bigger and let things get slower and more complicated. I do miss the ease of those 7x11 pages but it was hard to get much detail into the panels given how i suck at drawing.
Q. As an artist, would you say it’s better to play to your strengths and work on your weaknesses, or fumble around and try to be at least mediocre in every aspect of art?
A. in case you haven’t noticed, i’m effing mediocre at a lot of stuff. but I think you need a mix of both approaches. I mean, my first weakness was ‘finishing stuff’. that one’s easy to overcome: just finish something!!! and with each volume of scott pilgrim i gave myself new challenges. vol 1, i started tackling photo reference and trying to make things feel grounded. vol 2, i did two fight scenes in real locations (Casa Loma and the Library). vol 3, i challenged myself to draw honest ed’s, that thing is crazy!
anyway, I guess that means I want you to play to your strengths and work on your weaknesses. but work on your strengths too. Work on everything. There’s always room for improvement.
Q. Hey, how come LaunchPad McQuack from the first book didn’t become one of Sex Bom-Omb’s songs in the movie?
A. because it suuuuuuucked and was a terribly dumb song that i made up (for the comic) in five minutes while lying on the floor of my girlfriend’s apartment
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Q&A VII
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Previous answers: http://radiomaru.tumblr.com/tagged/askQ. According to Barney Stinson in the show How I Met Your Mother, in every relationship there is a reacher and a settler. The reacher is the person in the relationship who is dating someone outside of their range. The settler is the person who is dating below their range; in other words, they could do better. In all of Scott’s relationships (Knives, Envy, Ramona) who do you think is the settler and who is the reacher?
A. first of all, this is a horrifying question. Taking relationship cues from a ‘womanizer’ stereotype character on a tv sitcom is a bad idea for your life. This ‘theory’ is reductionist and shallow. It’s a false dichotomy based on arbitrary rankings of real live people. Yes, you can boil anything down to two types of whatever, but that doesn’t mean it’s the ONLY WAY the world works. The world and the people in it are infinitely complex.
Knives, Envy and Ramona are all presented as complicated women, each traveling along their own character arcs. It seems like Scott ‘settles’ for Knives, but when she starts growing up and becoming ‘sexy’, Scott panics and runs away. You could say Scott is ‘reaching’ for the famous & hot Envy, but then you realize he started dating her when she was a boring college student wearing baggy clothes. And with Scott/Ramona, both of them are reaching in their own way — Scott reaching for someone beautiful and fascinating (he’s shallow), and Ramona reaching for someone she thinks is decent and good.
Q. i was pretty shocked when stills came out. have u met anyone who, like stills, gave up on his manhood out of a failed relationship? is stills the kind who would stay gay or is it a phase, like ramona’s case with roxie?
A. this is another horrifying question! Thanks!
Scott’s line “Julie turned you gay?!” is a JOKE. Girls do not turn boys gay. That’s not how it works. Also, being gay is not ‘giving up your manhood’. Gay men are still men.
Stills was partly inspired by a good friend of mine, who did actually come out as gay during the years I was working on these books. I asked his advice on if he thought I should have Stills come out too, and he thought it was a good idea. So, in volumes 4-5 I planted information and patiently waited to reveal it at the very end.
I don’t know if Stills is ‘really’ gay or if he’s bi or experimenting or what. All I know is he realized he wasn’t into Julie and decided he’d rather be with a man. If I revisit the characters in the future, I’m sure I’ll explore this aspect further.
Q. Hey Mr. O’Malley! I love your work and I’m a really big fan of Scott Pilgrim and I was just wondering how did Scott become the best fighter in the province?
A. Scott won the All-Ontario Fighting Tournament when he was 19 (or did he?). I was originally going to put this information in a flashback during volume 6 but changed my mind. I prefer that it isn’t explained in canon. I think explaining things too much goes against the spirit of the series.
Q. Do you read any comics or manga these days? Anything that stands out to you? Rumor has it you’re a fan of One Piece.(AND)
Q. What do you think about the manga series One Piece? I ask this because of a part in volume 6, when Scott sees Envy in that birthday party… There’s a painting in the wall with the protagonist’s ship.A. Sorry to say but the One Piece pirate ship in vol 6 was drawn by my assistant, Mr John Kantz, without my knowledge. I have read only the first 5-6 volumes of One Piece, and that was back in 2004, around the time I was starting Scott Pilgrim. I love the art and the spirit of it. I’ve always meant to catch up on it. Now that I have an ipad maybe I can read it on there! (the idea of owning 60+ books of it scares me, and I’d rather read a legal version than scanlations)
As for other manga, i don’t read a ton right now but I really like Dorohedoro, Drops of God, and Cross Game. I am also still collecting Gantz and 20th Century Boys, even though I did read most of those in scanlations years ago before they were picked up in english.
Q. You moved to Asheville, and then you moved to LA. Does your location affect your art?
A. Well, it’s a bit hard to say because I was working on the same series that whole time. The only real change I can think of is that when I moved to Nova Scotia, where it rains a lot, I made it rain during Volume 3 of Scott Pilgrim. It seemed appropriate, but I probably wouldn’t have thought to do it if I still lived in Toronto where it only rains a normal amount.
I really like Los Angeles and am fascinated by it. Now that I live in LA, I plan to set my next series here. As a cartoonist, it’s certainly easier to set a story in your immediate environment, so you have lots of inspiration and reference material.
Q. Hello, I read SP and Lost At Sea, really enjoyed and identified myself with the books and some questions came to my mind: what’s about all the cigarettes? They aren’t the main subject, of course, but they appear and you make small discussions about them. Do you or someone close to you smoke? What do you think about smoking?
A. I’ve never been a smoker, but I’ve always had friends who smoked. I think in my late teens something in me decided that smoking was cool — cool people smoked. Yes, I realize that is what Society Wants Us To Think. Fortunately, i never thought of myself as cool, so i never got into smoking, but i guess I got into portraying smoking as cool in my work. In Lost at Sea the cool kids smoke. In SP, Scott has his own weird attitudes about smoking, but I still show the cool kids smoking. As the series goes on, I think it becomes less about being ‘cool’ and more about being ‘troubled’.
I don’t have any strong feelings on smoking at this point. Some part of my brain probably still thinks it’s cool and sexy. the rest of my brain does not seem to care.
Q. What was it like working with Edgar Wright during the production of the movie?
A. During those years, hardly a day went by that we didn’t exchange emails, and I would frequently get calls from him at weird hours about weird subjects. He’s always full of energy (he really does drink that much espresso) and very positive about everything. He would almost never say a bad thing about any movie, even something universally reviled. He loves movies and the people who make them. It’s impossible to say how lucky I was to work with Edgar Wright, and I’ll never stop being amazed that he opened up Scott Pilgrim vol 1 and read it and genuinely liked it and thought it was funny and had potential.
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Questions & answers: writing process edition
i pulled out a bunch of questions (i have a lot of them in my inbox) and organized them loosely by theme. so, here’s a bunch of mainly Writing Questions. next time, a bunch of Drawing type questions.
Q. I’ve been a fan of Scott Pilgrim for a while, but just read Lost at Sea recently, and really liked it, because it feels very personal, maybe semi-autobiographical. So…what do you think about auto-biographical/personal graphic novels? Would it have been hard to write Scott Pilgrim if you hadn’t writed Lost At Sea first?
A. lost at sea is actually less autobiographical than scott pilgrim, if you want to get technical… i intentionally grabbed a lot of locations and colorful characters from my life for Scott P, but lost at sea is much more traditionally fictional. nothing in Lost at Sea actually happened to me and none of the characters are specifically based on anyone i knew. it’s just a book that i wrote about some emotions i had.
The two stories represent two different ways of looking at my own life and trying to make sense of the world, i guess, which is what all my work revolves around.
Q. So I reread SP and I realised there was all this symbolism. Blew my Frikkin mind. I just wanted to ask, were you intending on writing some goofball comics, or was the heart from Lost at sea and finest hour, there all along?
A. yes
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Questions & answers VI
Q. I’ve always had questions about Scott’s brother. Why does Lawrence have a different last name? (or is that his middle name?) Is Lawrence older or younger than Stacey? I know Scott and Lawrence aren’t close, but are Stacey and Lawrenc close? Does she tell him of all Scott’s adventures and then they both shake their heads and thank god they don’t take after the same side of the family as he does?
A. Lots of people have asked about Lawrence West’s name. Lawrence West is his given name. His full name is Lawrence West Pilgrim. He is named after a train station. Ha ha ha.
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Questions & answers BONUS: Creativity & Comics Edition
Sitting here in my hotel room, about to do a panel at the Emerald City Comic Con with one of my favorite comics peers (Brandon Graham of KING CITY) and our mutual comics hero (Adam Warren of DIRTY PAIR, GEN13, EMPOWERED, etc), thinking about comics, trying to make other people feel good about comics. here we go.
Q. How helpful do you think studying art [painting, realistic drawing, etc.] is to improving your cartooning, and do you think going to school for art [college/university] is worth it?
A. i never studied art past high school — i just went to liberal arts university (studied film, literature, etc). I was not a receptive learner at the time and eventually realized that I was wasting my time (& money) at university. I left school and tried to ‘get a life’ and just start learning and improving on my own time.
I’m not a great drawer. I have learned a lot in the last ten years, mostly by doing pages and pages of comics and figuring it out on the go. I do sort of wish I’d gone to the kind of technical art college where i would have been forced to do a lot of work and learn different mediums, because I think it would serve me well now. instead i just kind of fumble around in the dark. But on the other hand, every great artist I know who went to a good technical school (animation, illustration etc) was already better than me before they went to school. I think it’s just different for everyone.
Q. What inspired you to become a comic artist? What kept you going through with it?
A. I always wanted to make comics. i liked comics. I started drawing them when i was a little kid and i’ve never really stopped.
I think most comics being made today are generally pretty bad, but the medium is inherently limitless. it’s just words and pictures. You can tell any type of story you want. You can do things they can’t do in movies & cartoons, because they have budget limitations and schedules and deadlines, lawyers and producers and accountants. The real world gets in their way. YOU can literally just sit down with a pencil and make something better than anything you’ve ever seen on a screen. It’s all that stuff they tell you when you’re a kid about how your imagination has unlimited potential. comics are just an extension of your imagination. So start drawing and don’t stop drawing.
What kept me going? i guess sort of reaching for the gold ring, just hoping that if i kept at it, things would get better. And they did. and I’ve seen so many of my peers NOT keep going and just get bored or distracted or discouraged or have real life stuff interfere with their passion, and that’s sad. it isn’t their fault — life is hard, and comics don’t make life any easier. Comics are brutal.
The quote “Comics will destroy you - they will break your heart” is attributed to Charles Schultz of PEANUTS. he did that strip for his entire life and died a few months after retiring. so yeah.
Q. where do you get your inspiration for your work? music? tv? past experiences? dreams? or does your brain just kind of create all on its own?
A. You basically answered your own question, because it’s all of those things. You’ll be watching a movie and you’ll think the story is going in one direction, and then it turns out you’re wrong. but the wrong turn sticks in your head, and maybe that’s a story idea. Books are important, and especially nonfiction — if you’re even a little bit interested in a subject, go to the library and read more about it. don’t just read wikipedia (although there’s plenty of inspiration there as well). Music is a bit more nebulous, but maybe it puts you in the right headspace or maybe a lyric will jump out at you and give you an idea for a character or an emotional beat or a tone you want to convey. Dreams are endlessly fascinating, they’re a recombination of everything else in your brain — in fact, dreams are almost the same thing as writing, just done on a weird subconscious level. So pay attention to them. Pay attention to everything. Start thinking like a writer. but don’t steal too many anecdotes from your friends otherwise they’ll get mad.
Q. What were the benefits and pitfalls of working with a motion picture option, especially so early on in the series? How did it make you approach the project differently? And would you do it again?
A. it didn’t mean very much. The main thing is it was a promise of potential money, and when you’re doing comics for very little money, you tend to jump at any promise of money. there is absolutely no harm in optioning something, if you get the chance. Options generally have a time limit and very specific payment terms. you get a bit of money, someone tries to make your movie for a year. If you still like them at the end of the year, you renew the option and get a bit more money and they try for another year. If you hate them or think you could do better, you can always let the option lapse and then take the project elsewhere later. The option itself had no impact on my creative work. It just helped me to pay the bills.
Q. What advice would you give to someone who wants to draw well (in addition to “practice every day”)? Like not even wanting to be at the level of commercial work. Every few years I buy a wacom tablet and a copy of “drawing on the right side of the brain,” watch them collect dust, then give them away, weeping. I don’t even know where to “begin”
A. I literally don’t understand this nonsense. listen to yourself… PRACTICE EVERY DAY and shut up and stop whining. Or give up. It sounds like you already gave up. nobody can help you if you give up.
Q. My friend and I are making a graphic novel/comic book about crime fighting space babes, he’s draws and I write. Any tips for a novice?
A. Tip: crime fighting space babes is a genius idea. And check out these books…
MAKING COMICS by Scott McCloud - a new classic on all-around thinking about comics and storytelling.
DRAWING WORDS & WRITING PICTURES by Abel & Madden - an even newer classic, this book blew me away. It’s essentially a college course in a book and contains many great ways to think about writing, drawing and everything in between. I was already an established pro when I got this book, but I still learned a lot from it. Jess and Matt are great teachers. They also have a sequel (like an advanced, second-year college course) coming out very soon and I’m excited!!!!
COMICKERS PEN & INK STARTUP GUIDE - I just got this one recently, it’s crazy good and includes a super practical 4-week pen inking course, which I myself am planning to take, because i never learned how to ink with a pen (I mainly use brushes). Worth seeking out! amazon sells it direct from the publisher, DMP (you have to go into the ‘new and used’ button to find it).
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questions & answers V
Q. Do you ever feel that you want to write an on-going monthly comic series, either drawing it yourself or having someone else draw it? Or do you prefer the longer graphic novel format? (And is it important to you to retain control over every aspect, rather than work in collaboration on a story?)
A. I’ve thought about this a lot over the years. For one thing, I don’t have a ton of great story ideas lying around. My brain doesn’t really work that way — I have one or two big ideas that I work on gradually over time. For another thing, writing is always the hardest part for me! i wouldn’t want to just do the hard part and not the fun part… I think i’ll stick to doing it all by myself for now. maybe I’ll get better at writing someday. to answer your actual question about doing a monthly comic series… i dunno. maybe. I want to try it sometime.
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FAQ: What about this one joke?about 4003130102 ppl have asked about this. I believe this is the only overt reference in the series to the books being black & white.
answer: I DONT KNOWWWW YET! heahaerahaha. I haven’t tackled vol 3 yet - its color edition won’t be out for over a year. You’ll have to pick it up in 2013 and find out what new, even meta-er jokes come out of this humorous situation.
previously: Scott Pilgrim gets color editions
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questions & answers IV
Q. I know that the whole Scott Pilgrim story is done and pushed out of the way, but I’m a big Lisa Miller fan, I was just wondering if you had any future plans for the character in any capacity or if you had made a slightly bigger back story to her that you just never bothered to let out?
A. i do have a fondness for Lisa Miller. I hope to do more with her one day. The back story I think is mostly taken care of, but I did find a bunch of notes on the canadian TV show that she supposedly starred in (remember, where they said she played “the town slut”). There was gonna be a scene where Scott and Kim watch the show on dvd (at Kim’s parents’ house) in vol 6, but it got scrapped. I want to do a short comic about the tv show at some point because i think it’s a funny / dumb idea.
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