At Scryptic Studios, Caleb Monroe talks with Meltdown writer David Schwartz about his influences, the creation process, and how stumbled upon collaborator Sean Wang:

Getting Meltdown completed has been a long and tremendously arduous process, and there were many points where it felt like the whole project — and my comics writing dreams — would completely fall apart. One of those points was when the original artists — Bernard Chang and John-Paul Leon — backed out. I spent months searching for a replacement but, thanks to my budgetary limitations, lack of a writing track-record, etc., I came up empty-handed at every turn.

When I went to Comic-Con in July of ‘05, I was at the end of my proverbial rope. If I didn’t find a great artist there, I would’ve been out of options; in fact, any reasonably sane person probably would’ve given up long ago.

As I was walking through Artist Alley, I passed a booth with a sign that read “Sean Wang’s Runners.” I stopped in my tracks, turned to my wife and said, “Hey, didn’t we go to junior high school with a guy named Sean Wang?” Turns out the my junior high classmate Sean Wang was, in fact, the same Sean Wang that now stood before me. I hadn’t seen him in 20 years, and had no idea that he had gone into comics. I read his self-published series Runners and absolutely loved it. He read the pitch for Meltdown and was equally blown away. So, we decided to work together and I couldn’t possibly be happier with how it turned out. Not only is his artwork in Meltdown absolutely incredible, but he’s also been an absolute joy to collaborate with.

You can read a 20-page preview of the first issue here.

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