I never do, but I should probably just shut up and say “Yeah, like Batman and stuff,” and leave it at that, rather than try to fight perceptions and stereotyping. Then once I’m past the “No, I create my own comics, things without the guys in tights you’ve heard of,” I have to explain how comics are actually made from the ground up as most people are largely ignorant of anything to do with comics in general. Then they assume I mean Superman or Spider-Man or something. What’s the reaction when you tell people you create comics for a living? Especially on the computer side of things. That forces you to streamline a process quite a bit too.

I guess you could say my current style is the end product of loving people like Ash Wood, Victor Amrus, Richard Searle and Ralph Steadman, and the fact I have to do what I have to to meet a deadline. Was it equal parts experimentation and admiration for other artists that brought you there?Įveryone has influences and usually they’re much more prominent when you’re first starting out. Yes, my one burning ambition was to get published telling stories in Anglo-American comic books basically. What a guy!īen, when you were growing up in Perth, were you an avid comic fan with ambitions to work in the industry. And if that wasn’t enough, he’s also an Aussie.

He’s had two art books released, (Tommyrot and Conluvio), has been nominated for an Eisner for the last four years, and along with superstar writer Warren Ellis created a new comics format with their FELL series. Ben Templesmith has hacked out quite an eerie niche for himself since his breakout art work on IDW’s horror comic, 30 Days of Night, and has since become a formidable creator on books like Singularity 7 and Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, for which he received an International Horror Guild nod.

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