![]() I've got a deep mental reservoir of weird anatomy and body plans to pull from, and a wide range of amazing artists to look to for inspiration, from Wayne Barlowe to my friend C.M. In "Prophet," lots of the creatures I throw in there are either pulled from earlier issues or improvised on the page when I'm penciling. In our last interview, you talked about your interest in "speculative zoology" and weirdo creature designs, something that obviously shines through in this collection and in "Prophet." When designing creatures, do you start with the story first and design something that fits? Plus, there's lots of interesting stuff that could arise in the space between the individuals living in these artificial bodies and the wider society they exist in that tie directly into those ideas of disconnection. ![]() I think that if I revisit the world of "Jan's," it will be less about fleshing out that particular world and more about exploring the themes that come with the whole 'prosthetic body' premise the disconnect between the body and the self, self-isolation, things like that. Is that more creatively satisfying, or do you feed equally on collaboration too? ![]() But "Jan's Atomic Heart and Other Stories" is all you. It's all a bit muddled up, with stories getting changed and re-drawn years after I first started them, but they still show a progression of sorts, I think.Īside from the unique collaboration you guys have on "Prophet," you've also worked with writers Ed Brisson and David Gaffney. "Good Business" and the rough draft of "Shipwrecked with Dan the Gorilla" were drawn in late 2009, with "Bar Fight" and the rough draft of "Hunter Killer" drawn in 2010 and "Homeward Bound" drawn in 2011. It starts with "The Cosmonauts" (made in 2008 while I was studying Russian at the University of Victoria), followed by "Jan's Atomic Heart". They're arranged in the book in chronological order of completion, but their actual genesis is a bit more complicated. All the stories in this book - even "Hunter Killer," which I only finished this year - were written before I started working on "Prophet" in 2011.
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