AIPT Comics Comixology Head of Content Chip Mosher talks his Kickstarter OGN, his storied career in comics, and...genealogy!?
May 31, 2020
01:21:33
You can back Chip's Kickstarter here.
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Dave
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Segment: Interview: Chip Mosher - Blacking Out (with Peter Krause), working at Comixology as Head of Content
- Blacking Out is already funded, congratulations! Your Kickstarter states this work is 3 years in the making, but when did the bud of the idea start?
- What specific goals did you have when establishing the Blacking Out Kickstarter? What made Kickstarter feel like the right platform for this project?
- What one piece of advice would you give to comics creators conceptualizing or launching their own crowd funded projects?
- To say your background in comics is robust is an understatement. Working at Oni Press between 1999 to 2005, Marketing at sales at BOOM! in 2007 to 2011 and now 8 years at Comixology as Head of Content, from your perspective what is something surprising to see emerge in comics over the years, what is something not so surprising?
- What is it about gumshoe detectives and muscle cars that will never go out of style?
- What is your approach to creating a mystery, how do you come up with twists, turns, and seeding the story with details that will matter later?
- Blacking Out has a sleek visual style marrying the 70s and modern aesthetics, can you tell us how yourself, Peter Krause, and Tom Muller developed the look of the book?
- What other media (Books, movies, television) informed the development of Blacking Out?
- Many folks are struggling to keep their creative juices flowing right now, do you have any tricks or means of getting your creativity flowing?
- What did you want to be when you were little?
- What comics are you reading right now?
OFF TOPIC TOP SHELF: Chip Mosher - Genealogy