March is Women’s History Month, and lots of sites are celebrating women in a number of important fields. Here at Fanboy Comics, instead of talking with female writers and artists, we decided to feature the women working behind the scenes in the comic book industry. Join us as we talk with the editors, marketing specialists, designers, and other women who keep the trains running at your favorite comics publishers.
Colleen Boyd is the Submissions Editor at Action Lab Entertainment, the publisher of some of our favorite comics like Katie Cook’s Gronk, Jeremy Whitley’s Princeless, and a new series, The Adventures of Aero Girl! Colleen is the first person to look at all of the submissions that Action Lab receives and helps new creators to navigate the pitching process. We talked with her about her career, her favorite comics, and her advice for how to get a job like hers in comics.
“Commander, you throw one hell of a party.”
-- Quark
Critical consensus is the way we judge entertainment from the past at a glance. We all know Casablanca is a great movie without ever having seen it, because everyone says it is, and we know The Day the Clown Cried is terrible for the same reason. The internet has changed things (as usual) by giving everyone a voice, so that the old metrics of professional criticism and box-office returns are no longer the sole methods. You can’t go for a week without a thinkpiece about how Ang Lee’s Hulk is a misunderstood masterpiece or GoodFellas is overrated crap. Any jerk can just post whatever opinion about anything. I mean, who the hell do I think I am?
“Terrorists don’t get to be heroes.”
-- Major Kira Nerys
Riker is the lost boy of TNG. While he was originally intended as the Kirk-equivalent, the dashing adventurer and audience-PoV character (Remember, the pilot is him meeting the crew of the Enterprise.), in practice he was whatever the writers needed him to be. If they wanted a free-wheeling, authority-flouting rebel, he was that. If they needed a by-the-book authoritarian, he was that, too. The only thing that remained a constant was that he didn’t understand how chairs worked. It was, therefore, with a certain irony that the writers decided that their most muddled creation needed a clone.
The following is an interview with Calvin Garcia, illustrator of the web comic, William Feist: Paranormal Detective. In this interview, Fanboy Comics Contributor Madeleine Holly-Rosing chats with Garcia about how William Feist found its start, his approach to color work versus using black and white, and his thoughts on diversity in comic books!
“I am a moron.”
-- Ira Steven Behr, on using Brigadoon as a model for a DS9 episode.
I feel like I should start this review with one of my meandering, digressive paragraphs about some aspect of writing. I can’t. Why? I hate this episode. Seriously, hate it. Like normal folks hate lines at the DMV or people who say “hella.” I’d be tempted to just have this review be one long string of curses, but cursing at Fanboy Comics tends to read like Morse Code, and I don’t want to summon any boats.
The following is an interview with producer/director Erik Lundmark and actor Brian Prisco of MovieMaze's latest film, The Plumber. In this interview, Fanboy Comics Managing Editor Barbra Dillon chats with Lundmark and Prisco about what sets The Plumber apart from MovieMaze's previous film, their experiences in working with the cast and crew, and what viewers can anticipate next from MovieMaze's slate of projects!
The following is an interview with Nick Abadzis, writer of Titan Comics' Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor comic book series, the first volume of which will be hitting shelves later this month. In this interview, Fanboy Comics Managing Editor Barbra Dillon chats with Abadzis about what piqued his interest in working on the series, whether Whovians and those new to the franchise will be easily able to jump into the series, and - most importantly - which Doctor is *his* Doctor!
The following is an interview with David Dean Bottrell, co-founder of the annual sci-fi one-act festival, Sci-Fest LA. In this interview, Fanboy Comics Managing Editor Barbra Dillon chats with Bottrell about the inspiration behind the festival's launch, the star-studded one-act lineup for 2015's festival, and how you can help to make Sci-Fest LA the best that it can be through its currently running Indiegogo campaign!
The following is an interview with Al Ewing and Rob Williams, the writers behind the Titan Comics' Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor comic book series, the first volume of which will be hitting shelves later this month. In this interview, Fanboy Comics Managing Editor Barbra Dillon chats with Ewing and Williams about what piqued their interest in working on the series, whether Whovians and those new to the franchise will be easily able to jump into the series, and - most importantly - which Doctor is *their* Doctor!
The following is an interview with Zach Lipovsky, director of the upcoming film, Dead Rising: Watchtower, based on the popular video game series. In this interview, Fanboy Comics Senior Contributor Kristine Chester chats with Lipovsky about where the film will fall within the video game cannon, what sets the film apart from other zombie films, and the other video game properties that he would like to adapt for the big screen!
