Finishing up Little Scrowlie by Todd Meister and Jennifer Feinberg with Issues #11 - #15 which make up Volume 3: Apocalypse Scrowl
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>>156109850Oh my goodness it took me this long to realize I forgot to link the previous thread>Volumes 1 & 2 >>156102664
And that concludes Little Scrowlie by Todd Meister and Jennifer FeinbergTo be honest I pretty much expected barely anyone to show up but I also wanted to storytime a comic that had the same sort of vibes of a low-budget Adult Swim show and I thought this series was pretty interesting given the circumstances of its existence and how long it lasted
>>156111505Thank you very much for storytiming. I love coming across and learning about obscure comics like this on /co/, not all of them are going to draw in a big crowd but I still thought it was neat!
>>156111794I was gonna wait a while to post this but I'll do it now since you showed up>Sequential Tart: What are some of your earliest memories of drawing and telling stories?>Jennifer Feinberg: My dad used to keep the bottom drawer of his desk stocked with photocopy paper. I used to use those and ballpoint pens and sit in front the TV and draw long, intricate stories that I'd throw away every night.>Todd Meister: In junior high, when I was bored in class, I used to draw full-page stories about what I called the "hotdog men" versus gnomes and ants. I wasn't advanced enough to use panels, so when something died or moved, I erased and re-drew it.>ST: Where did the idea for Little Scrowlie come from?>TM: We thought up Little Scrowlie on the way back from a convention in LA. The idea was to expand Jen's art into a full-length story. It was an experiment, to see if we could make a whole comic's worth of story. The story and characters were inspired by the fanatically fickle mallgoth comic fans we kept seeing at conventions, and by people we knew or worked with in the real world.http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/apr03/indy_0403.shtml
>ST: How and when did you begin to talk to Slave Labor about Scrowlie?>JF: At SDCC. Bob Simpkins (then publisher of SLG) bought a copy of Little Scrowlie, and ended up liking it. At pretty much every convention before that, we'd give Dan Vado a copy of the latest Scrowlie.>ST: What were your first feelings about the possibility of going more mainstream after creating Scrowlie on your own for a few years?>JF: I have to say, I was pretty excited about it. Both Todd and I don't like the marketing aspect of comics and I don't think we were doing a good job of promoting ourselves.>ST: What changes has signing Scrowlie to SLG brought on, for the two of you?>TM: The opportunity to reach a wider group of people.>JF: So far, SLG has done a better job of promoting us in the past few months than we've done in the past ... how many years?>TM: Five.From what I can tell pic related was the last thing they worked on in the comics industry, just a contribution to Slave Labor Graphics' 20th anniversaryThey did do some work for a few anthologies and their first comic Chi did get collected and re-released by SLG
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Oh yeah I might as well post this from their surprisingly still working sitehttp://www.chi-jen.com
Sorry for the low quality, this is early 2000's internet we're talking aboutFor context Hopey is from their other comic (and is based on one of the cats they do/did own)
>ST: When did you realize that you wanted to create comics?>JF: I realized I wanted to create comics when I was in college and I took a bookmaking class. I started getting into making these little tiny story books, and selling them at the local comic/record shop. Before that, I was more interested in illustration.>ST: How did you get involved in making your first comic?>JF: I wasn't even planning on making a comic book. Instead of drawing single-panel illustrations, I wanted to tell a story. Eventually, I had enough drawings, and that was Chi #1.>ST: How did you two meet?>JF: I had the Chi comics, and Todd was going to do my website.>TM: I'd seen one of the comics that became part of Chi #1 when a mutual friend showed it to me. I was blown away by the artwork (though the lettering literally gave me a headache after I finished reading it). I became something of a fanboy, and offered to do the Chi website.
I was wondering why this style was giving me deja-vu and just now realized that it was reminding me of Sally Cruikshank. The monster designs and "shape shifting" in the drawings have that similar essence.
