Comic Con-versation with Rob Feldman!
Sutherland Shire Libraries
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Describe your journey as an artist/creator – especially in regard to making comics?
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I did the whole 8 pages of Elvis Shintaro as a nod to wonderful Japanese pop culture and specifically their astonishingly astonishing comics. It's a spoof-ish nod to them, and I basically took actual Japanese letters and mixed them up in complete meaninglessness. It was fun, as the non-Japanese reader ( of whom I am one ) can follow the pictures but PRETEND we're reading Japanese. Elvis Shintaro was done as a pilot comic sample.
Tell us about your book Cartoons, Comics, and Cows in Cars...
Cartoons, Comics and Cows in Cars isn't technically a Graphic Novel , as much as a collection of many of my disconnected, random and diverse comics and cartoons brought together in the one book by the use of surreal segues. This all thanks to the inimitable ( so don't even try to imitate him ) Nat Karmichael of Comicoz who gave me carte blanche ( French for 'a blank carte' ) to do whatever I wanted to in the book.
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I've just finished a kids' book /comic / story called , appropriately, Fast Freddy's Big Race. I say 'appropriately ' as the comic / book is actually about Fast Freddy who goes in a Big Race. Next will be the sequel to Fast Freddy's Big Race OR another book / comic possibly entitled Buster Kaboo and the something something ( still working on the title ) Can't wait. But must.
Find out more about Rob Feldman at his website and on Facebook!