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ProFile: Jason Brubaker

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ProFile-Jason-BrubakerJason Brubaker began his career in graphic novels in 2011 with the Xeric Award winning reMIND which also got on the Great Graphic Novels for Teens list 2012. In 2014 he quit his full-time job as a Visual Development artist at Dreamworks Animation to pursue publishing his own comics. You can support Jason’s work here: patreon.com/jasonbrubaker

What made you decide to work in the medium of comics?

I grew up loving comics and always wanted to draw sequential art. But when I started working as a professional artist I put aside comics because I thought they were for kids. 10 years later I was convinced to give comics a try again and I’m glad I did because now I realize how powerful and effective they are at telling stories and getting a message across. I love comics because they are the perfect medium for solo artist/writers to tell their stories.

What part of the process is the most challenging or frustrating to you?

I think the most challenging part is the marketing part, or social media part. These are just so unnatural for me as an artist and sometimes I just want to ignore it all and just work on the books but at the end of the day I need to put my stuff out there in a social way to that others can see it and respond to it.

If you could give one piece of advice to an aspiring comics creator, what would that be?

Make sure you really believe in what you are trying to say in your story. It takes a lot of commitment to get a full comic story finished and if you don’t believe your own message then it’s going to be near impossible to put in all the work to finish it and it will also be hard to put your best work into it too.

ProFile: David Lloyd

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ProFile-David-LloydDAVID LLOYD is the well-known illustrator and co-creator of the globally successful, V For Vendetta, who’s also worked on the Hellblazer series, Aliens, Global Frequency, War Stories, and many other projects.  His acclaimed crime graphic novel, Kickback, is now available as an app with all kinds of extras including a commentary. He’s collaborated on an Asterix collection ; produced his first limited-edition print,‘ The Prizefighter ‘; and written and drawn a book on Sao Paulo.  His most recent work in print is a retrospective collection of short stories – Materia Oscura – which was published in Italy and Spain. He also helps manage the educational website, Cartoon Classroom,  which aims to centralize all information available on the study of cartooning and sequential art in Britain and Ireland. His current occupation is editing and publishing an exclusively digital comic art magazine, Aces Weekly, which features top talent from around the world.

More information on David’s past and present projects can be found via www.lforlloyd.com,  on Deviantart.com, and on his Facebook page.

What made you decide to work in the medium of comics?

I was good at it, loved telling stories and expressing myself that way – in the same way that any artist has to paint, I had to create these things once I realized that I could – and had seen how effective they could be! If you can write, you write. If you can draw, you draw. If you can write and draw, you naturally produce sequential art! If you want to.

What part of the process is the most challenging or frustrating to you?

None of it. Damn publishers sometimes not selling it or printing it badly is the only challenging and frustrating part of it.

If you could give one piece of advice to an aspiring comics creator, what would that be?

Work hard to be the best you can be at it.