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2006-06-27 17:19:08
Some answers to your questions.
Bearpod91
Wouldn't it be cool if your daughter grows up to become a big penciller?
And I love the Joe Fridays, I've been listening since around Joe Friday #20-something and love em all! Keep up the great stuff!
JQ- You know, Bearpod91, while it would of course be cool with me, we’re not pushing her into one thing or another. One of the things that I’m thankful about my upbringing is that my Mom and Dad always said it was cool to be an artist if I wanted to while the parents of my friends were pushing them to be doctors and lawyers. You have to remember, I grew up on a block were almost all of us were first generation Americans from immigrant families. My block was the quintessential melting pot, my best friends were Chinese, Cuban, Dominican, Venezuelan, Greek and Indian. For families such as ours, making sure that your kids had a chance at the American dream was very important. So, going to college and becoming a doctor or lawyer was the end all be all and the certain path to the upper middle class. A career in the arts was frowned upon, it was the road to insecurity and poverty, I guess that’s what made my upbringing so special and that’s the same thing that I want to offer my daughter, the opportunity to decide what her calling is. If that happens to one day be comics, well, between her mother and I and all of our friends, she’ll have plenty of folks looking over her shoulder. The trick will be to resist the temptation to be too heavy handed and let her ask the questions as she needs the answers.
The key for me is that if she does want that career in art, to let her know very early that while there are certain tools, there are no rules. Perspective is a tool, knowing anatomy is a tool, but there are no rules. I remember reading something David Mack once wrote about his upbringing and how his mother was very instrumental in his artistic development. What struck me was that if David decided to draw a green and pink sky, she would never correct him and tell him that it had to be blue, allowing for little David to envision the world as he wanted to see it. I just thought that was a wonderful story and a wonderful way encourage a child’s creativity.
Draw your sky as you see it.
bigdaddyhub2
Speak to me more about the story phase of the project. How much of what a writer puts down is his/her own idea about the characters and their direction and how much has been decided by your own "Illuminati," a group of writers and editors that set stories and character development for the writer to execute. I guess an example of this would be in Wolverine 42, the writer starts off by killing the Crusader, a b or c team badguy for sure, but still one that has been around for a while. Was that decision (that the rest of MU has to live with) resting on one writer, or was it the MK office, or did you and a gang direct such a move? Thanks for your time!
JQ- Well, bigdaddyhub2, that depends on what project your talking about. If you’re referring to a normal every day comic book, 95% of the time the writer comes in the with the idea, works it through with the editor and then goes and writes his or her story.
If you’re talking about a large-scale event like Civil War, then there are more people involved in the mix. Usually a group of writers, including the person writing the book and a team of editors. It’s done this way to ensure the best possible story and with a large-scale event, many books will be involved, so each title has to be represented, if not by its creator, then certainly by the editor in order to ensure that the creative team is represented.
It’s a shared universe, so while there is a lot of autonomy at Marvel, there are times when a big event rolls around that everyone needs to play in the same sandbox.
The thing to remember is that the more fans clamor for a shared universe with perfect continuity that has every titled completely locked step with each other, the more people have to be involved in the making of each individual comic book. Aside from the obvious pitfall, it’s very draining on an editorial staff and on all the creators involved. That’s why after Civil War, while there will be smaller events happening within each title family, we won’t be doing a massive line wide event for at least a year. We need to recharge our batteries, I feel that Marvel fans will have a lot to take in and we have some individual stories that need room to breath in individual titles.
Captain Block
I have had to pleasure of meeting you Joe and getting a Spider Man poster signed for my kids room. I am not as hard core in comics as most and my opinion may not carry much sway but I going to add my 2 cents.
I love the MJ and Peter Parker being married. I think it's cool that with all the hell that guy goes through he has a super model to make up for it.
Don't make MJ and Peter get a divorce!!! I beg of you. That's all.
I still a fan but that would ruin my Spidey reading. Good day.
Captain Block
JQ- Captain, Peter and MJ will not be getting a divorce.
I read the same CSI book as you did Joe. And it looks like I took a bullet for you!
The Ghost Of Rich Johnston
JQ- And the crowd goes wild!
Revolver Dark
Joe if you read this get JMS off Spidey.
Return Spidey to his classic costume and the unmasking, it sucks and you let it happen.
I'm losing faith in you.
JQ- Sorry you don’t like it Revolver Dark, I guess that’s what makes it a horse race. I personally feel like JMS has done an incredible job with Spidey over these last, nearly, six years.
dp_lombardo
Hey Mr. Q,
Just picked up a buncha old '92 X-Factor comics, couldn't help but recognise your work in Strong Guy's smile - your art was kickass even then.
Joe Fridays should be made Joe Everydays.
JQ- Thanks for the kind words, dp.
Revolver Dark
Joe at least somebody in around your house knows the meaning of deadline..kidding aside your kid hopefully has your great talent.
JQ- Actually, Revolver, yeah, she’s much more disciplined than me. She’s in bed by 7:30 every night and awake by 4:30-5:00 every morning.
Hi-Fi
Hey, Joe. I don't know if this is out of place, but I'd like to say I'm really excited about the new direction the X-Books are taking this july, with Carey and Brubaker. My question is: does the Astonishing arc(awesome by the way, gotta love Whedon) takes place after CW? It appears so.
And while I'm at it, Eternals 1 was incredible. Now promise me the Eternals will stay around after the mini, please. Sersi rejoining the Avengers would be great.
Sorry if this is not the proper place. Keep up the great work.
JQ- The theory is that Astonishing is occurring after Civil War. What’s important to remember is that the events of Astonishing happen over a few short days.
The Eternals will definitely be sticking around.
Bearpod91
Joe Q, you really are a hard worker. I was wondering as an artist do you use references when drawing a character? Did you ever copy a pic of a character and just give it your own style or do you think that's really the worst thing to do? I'm just 15 and starting to try to work on my drawing and writing skills so I wanted to ask the pro's on this.
JQ-Bearpod, copying other people’s art is really something that you shouldn’t be doing once you’re a professional. At 15 it’s an okay, but I tend to discourage it in young artist once they reach the age of 16. If you’re really enjoying drawing, then get a sketch pad and draw your friends, draw your family, you’ll be surprised how people love to pose. You can also just take it to the park and draw your surroundings, The greatest comic artists can draw anything and everything.
What I will use from time to time is photo reference. There are several figure books trhat I have in my library that I use from time to time when I’m stuck or not quite sure how a muscle turns in space. But, the more anatomy you learn, the less you have to rely on outside sources.
Elayne Riggs
That Sounds Familiar
"Some days the pencil and hand just don’t quite get into synch and those are just horrible days."
Hmm, where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, from my husband the resident artist. :)
JQ- See, Elayne, and all this time you just thought he was making it up ;-)
cain marko
two things...
first off I think your a wonderful artist and very good, and I like the drawings in this blog, second off since you are the EIC of marvel I figurred it would be ok if I asked you...I ordered a subscribtion from you guys about 2 weeks ago, and I was wondering how long does it actually take to get a comic book to me. I mean I know it says 6-8 weeks but really come on, and is there anyway to track my comic book? like using ups or something.thanks for your help(if you even read this)
Cain, to be honest, I have no idea, I have nothing to do with subscriptions, but I’ll tell you what, I’ll see what I can find out.
That’s it for today. Below are some pictures from a podcast session we had today. A bunch of fantastic creators were in town and in the office for the beginning of our creator retreat and we took the opportunity to set up some microphones and talk comics.
Tomorrow, part three of the cover from hell.
See ya in the funnybooks,
JQ
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