Tim O’Shea interviews The Ride Home creator Joey Weiser about his various projects, including his story in the upcoming Elephano Anthology:
O’Shea: Speaking of anthologies, at your blog you mentioned that have started work on your contribution for David Yoder’s Elephano Anthology? Can you talk a little about that, and –out of curiosity–how did you end up with a job at a magic shop?
Weiser: The Elephano anthology is something that came out of a concept created by my pal David Yoder and Linda Medley while she was teaching at SCAD. They each created their own completely different characters and stories based on the idea of an elephant magician named “Elephano.” David developed his idea for a while and is finally drawing a finished version of his Elephano story. The idea for the anthology is for each creator to work with that same basic concept, but create their own personal take on “Elephano.” I’m helping David put the book together, and we are planning on having it for SPX this year.
And me working at a magic shop? Well, that was a kinda weird situation…but pretty good fuel for this project! In Savannah, there was this local television show with a magician, and it’s for kids and is educational and stuff. Well, he opened a store in the mall that sold magic tricks and he performed there from time to time. I had just graduated, and a couple of my friends worked there and got me the job. The job mostly consisted of taking care of the rabbits and birds that lived in the store, and showing kids magic tricks in the hopes that they’d buy them. There was a decent amount of down time there, actually, and a lot of The Ride Home was drawn in that store…
