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AG: I listened to the tracks from the playlist you provided at the end of the story. I ended up really liking the band, The Crime & City Solution. What song have you listened to most recently from this playlist, and how do you feel it connects to the experience of music in your mini-comic? SC: I've been listening to a similar playlist as I work on Last Song with Holly Interlandi (thru Black Mask, the first issue comes out in May 2017)--it's about the rise & fall of a fictional band in LA in the 90s, so the playlist has been a lot of Placebo, a lot of Rowland S Howard (The Crime & City Solution, The Birthday Party --yes, that one with Nick Cave, These Immortal Souls, and some brilliant solo albums), early Smashing Pumpkins, Manic Street Preachers. For Mysteries in particular I wanted to express the intense emotional experiences and catharsis I've had involving music, especially at live shows-- feeling completely in a moment to the point where time and space don't matter, where you're just overwhelmed with love and joy or sorrow or whatever emotion is being evoked in the song, or with dancing or moshing or keeping your head above the crowd, sharing that experience with your closest friend or total strangers. Or how songs or albums get associated with specific experiences and places and times in your life, that big swell of emotion and longing that you feel. |
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AG: You had mentioned that you were working on some new comics. Can you tell us anything about your approach to storytelling now? SC: I've been doing more work collaboratively, where I'm drawing and someone else is writing. It's nice to feel like I'm not working in a void, and to draw subject matter I might not normally pick. It's actually given me time to work on just planning and writing a longer comic in the meantime. My approach to storytelling when I'm both writing AND drawing is generally this: I find a specific emotion or feeling, and build a narrative around it. I make an outline, jot down dialogue ideas in the thumbnail stages, and write the script as I'm penciling. I'm currently finishing up a solo comic to debut at Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) in June called In The Cold, which is a comic about suffocating suburban NJ young adulthood and confusing first queer crushes with a backdrop of unsettling supernatural elements. |
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