For your reading pleasure, here’s another entry in my series of interviews with famous video game characters. There will be several more coming down the pipeline, so I hope you keep coming back to Nerd Culture Podcast!
For this instalment I have a very candid interview with none other than Mario.
In 1985 Mario hit the Nintendo Entertainment System like a pizza pie in the sky. Super Mario Brothers is one the most recognized video games ever, not to mention one of my all time favourite ones. I was playing this game when I was four years old and still play it today, it’s that awesome!
Me: Thank you for coming to this interview. I look forward to speaking with you about you and your experiences in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Mario: Okie dokie, wahoo!
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One of the cool things about conventions is that you get to meet interesting and like-minded new people. And at the last Melbourne Oz Comic-Con I met two of the awesome guys behind Angel Phoenix Media, Pat McNamara & David Williams.
I was initially drawn to their booth by the large, magnificent looking hardcover book you can see in the bottom left of the picture, called Angelwitch: Book One, Dragonscarpe, which is a fully illustrated epic written by Pat and features awesome art by Michal Dutkiewicz. It is a stunning book. But of course the next thing that caught my eye was the awesomely titled The Legend of SpaceLord Mofo. I’m not sure why but that title just appeals to the Aussie in me 🙂
The Legend of SpaceLord Mofo follows Bran Mak Foo (aka, Spacelord Mo Fo) and Honey Pott, a just-married couple scrounging a living on the Edge of Endspace after a galactic apocalypse… or three. The Edge is a place where heroes are few, villainy’s the law, and the rest are just trying to survive. It is a digital comic that aims to push the boundaries of what people expect from that medium and looks like a hell of a lot of fun!
And they’re not the only things Angel Phoenix Media are working on. They are diving deep into the world of digital comics, animation and even live action TV! And there is a heap of great titles to choose from, including sci-fi actioners Venus IA & Venus League, sci-fi mystery Exiles, conspiracy thriller The Pandora Sequence & sci-fi/horror Streamers. Something for everyone!
And to get you started, for 1 month only, Angel Phoenix Media are selling e-book editions of Angelwitch: Book One, Dragonscarpe, The Pandora Sequence & Venus IA for only $2.99 each! An absolute bargain. I’ve picked them all up and at the time of reading this, I’ve finished Angelwitch & Venus IA and am halfway through The Pandora Sequence and I’m chomping at the bit for more!
So check out Angel Phoenix Media Promo page or go direct to Amazon or iTunes to download these great titles now!
This years Will Eisner Comic Industry were announced yesterday at SDCC and I for one wasn’t surprised that Saga nailed it. It is a great series and deserves all the praise it gets.
I’m also pleased by the recognition for David Aja’s work on Hawkeye. Brilliant stuff.
But congratulations to everyone, the winners and nominees. This was a great selection this year, and everyone deserved to win.
Click More for the full list of nominees. All winners (including some ties!) are in bold.
Best Continuing Series
- Fatale, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
- Hawkeye, by Matt Fraction and David Aja (Marvel)
- The Manhattan Projects, by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra (Image)
- Prophet, by Brandon Graham and Simon Roy (Image)
- Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)
Best New Series
- Adventure Time, by Ryan North, Shelli Paroline, and Braden Lamb (kaboom!)
- Bandette, by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (Monkeybrain)
- Fatale, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)
- Hawkeye, by Matt Fraction and David Aja (Marvel)
- Saga, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image)
Best Writer
- Ed Brubaker, Fatale (Image)
- Matt Fraction, Hawkeye (Marvel); Casanova: Avaritia (Marvel Icon)
- Brandon Graham, Multiple Warheads, Prophet (Image)
- Jonathan Hickman, The Manhattan Projects (Image)
- Brian K. Vaughan, Saga (Image)
- Frank M. Young, The Carter Family (Abrams ComicArts)
Best Writer/Artist
- Charles Burns, The Hive (Pantheon)
- Gilbert Hernandez, Love and Rockets New Stories, vol. 5 (Fantagraphics)
- Jaime Hernandez, Love and Rockets New Stories, vol. 5 (Fantagraphics)
- Luke Pearson, Hilda and the Midnight Giant, Everything We Miss (Nobrow)
- C. Tyler, You’ll Never Know, Book 3: A Soldier’s Heart (Fantagraphics)
- Chris Ware, Building Stories (Pantheon)
Best Penciller/Inker (tie)
- David Aja, Hawkeye (Marvel)
- Becky Cloonan, Conan the Barbarian (Dark Horse); The Muse (self-published)
- Colleen Coover, Bandette (Monkeybrain)
- Sean Phillips, Fatale (Image)
- Joseph Remnant, Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland (Zip Comics/Top Shelf)
- Chris Samnee, Daredevil (Marvel); Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom (IDW)
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Listeners of our podcast will know that I attended Oz Comic-Con Melbourne a couple of Saturdays ago and to say that I had an awesome time is an understatement.
I simply cannot praise this year’s event enough. A beautiful venue in the Exhibition Building, well thought out layout, heaps to do and see, quality food, and an awesome selection of guests.
This is how a convention is meant to be done!
So thank you Hub Productions, for an awesome show. And thanks also to Blue Planet for organising interviews with some of the guests and generally being awesome!
One of the highlights of the show for me was not only getting to speak and interview some of my favourite comic people like Phil Jimenez, Nicola Scott, Freddie Williams II, & Paul Mason, but I also managing to score some breathtaking sketches/commissions from them!
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For your reading pleasure, here’s another entry in my series of interviews with famous video game characters. There will be several more coming down the pipeline, so I hope you keep coming back to Nerd Culture Podcast!
