This week’s big interview over at The Comics Reporter was with Tom Neely, creator of the new book, The Blot, which looks creepy and disturbing in all the right ways:
My life has changed a lot since beginning this book. I started it during a very dark time, and it deals with a lot of that. The book was like therapy for me. Since then, everything has just continued to get better and better. I just got engaged and my life is much more peaceful and happy now. I think The Blot would be different if I did it now. It had to have been made during last year to come out the way it did. And for that reason, I worked really hard to finish it all in one year while all those emotions were still fresh in my memory. I fear that my work might get boring now that I’m happy, but I don’t think that will necessarily happen. My work has already evolved since I finished The Blot. Though it’s still a continuation of those characters and ideas, I think it’s actually getting a bit weirder.
Oh, and the Daily Cross Hatch has an interview with Nickelodeon Magazine editor Chris Duffy that’s worth checking out as well, since he talks about things like his years at DC:
What does being an associate editor at DC Comics entail?
Associate is just an assistant, with fewer responsibilities. It kind of depends who you’re working for. I worked for two editors: Mike Carlin and Frank Pittarese. They were doing Superman and the Superman spinoff books, which amounted to six titles, and extra little things, here and there. From day to day, you call a lot of people, to let them know about deadlines, or buzz them, to let them know their work came in, because it wasn’t sent digitally, so you actually had to call people, to let them know that you got the package. And I’d make sure that people got paid, and chasing down checks—putting out the little fires, not the big ones, which is what the editor was doing.
