 Why so serious you thought Dante was gonna be here, didn't you? Not today. I'm here at the 2009 Boston Comic Con with my version of Mr. Dante Loomis episode. I am OTO if you don't know me by now Part of the Prime Suspects rap group, but one of the things I like to do in my spare time you know as a young man growing up with three comic books and this is possibly the biggest event that you could hold with all these people and all these comic books fans in just two days and This is the Boston Comic Con and I want you guys to come check this out. We're gonna be interviewing some very Good people some artists some writers. Hopefully some independent comic book companies, you know up and coming ones We want to just show you a whole bunch of aspects of a whole different thing some artwork pieces might check out some nice B-rolls of some of some some stuff that you might want to get yourself. So make sure you check this out Stay tuned. Take care Green landing I didn't see his ring Hey in effect the place to be I'm here. I'm Mr. Tim sale creative Hope bunch of great artwork for Marvel and on DC a lot of image stuff to Definitely make sure you check these guys out Duster stuff with a Hulk spider-man Batman Superman dare double. I really sort of got serious about drawing comics That's about 13. I did go to school, but I'm mostly self-taught. I Went to the San Diego comic-con in 1988 It's the first time I met people there showed them my work I started to get Professionally the first work I did with inking Hey with Mike McComb Does some great stuff dead pool suicide Kings covers amazing spider-man Punisher Ask me a couple brief questions to make us, you know I'm saying real quick check it out. Hey, don't I'm good. How are you? I'm old. Oh, yeah What is also OTO? Overtime often it's actually I'm actually a writer a songwriter, okay, you know hip-hop things like that, so um How um, how long have you been doing them artwork now 21 years this year? 21 years Yeah, actually, what are you from? I'm from England. Oh England. Okay. Wow from England, but I moved to New York Four months ago. Okay, so um, how long have you been doing stuff for our Marvel? Alphanon for about 20 years Really started with DC I've kind of went back Ever since I took my portfolio to the convention in England and I showed it to the editor-in-chief DC Comics at the time He took samples away with him The editor of just as they called me up and I started your filling I've seen some of your stuff. I think it was the 24-7 for amazing spider-man. Yes 594 or something like that. Um 6 or something like that Why is spider-man's head so big compared to his body like anybody else that draws him? The way I drove that. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I love it by the way. I love it. Thanks. I just wonder I think he should be like ideally like a 17 year old scrawny kid Yeah, and I know he's meant to be this 20 year old who gets super models But to me in my in my head he's always this kind of scrawny kid Oh Just gives you impression Going on y'all. I'm a cliff chain Artists for DC comics also been a lot of stuff for Batman green arrow Black canary And then after a couple years of that I went free late, so I'm drawing ever since I went to I went to school for English lit and I did a little bit of artwork and when I came out, I thought it was gonna be a lawyer, but I started working as an editor at vertigo and In this in my spare time I was working on pages getting my portfolio Yeah, after a couple years of that I you know have good enough samples and you know The show stuff around How did you get that break I've heard about DC to work there? They just happen to have an opening. Yeah, I mean it's it's funny. I thought that it was gonna be Hard for me to break it as an artist Turns out it's We're here again with Koi fam artists from Marvel Comics by the Hercules stuff mighty Avengers Secret Invasion Whole bunch of great unique stuff that I could think about all the time online is just incredible Stuff I've been doodling since I was a kid, but professionally started on I think 2005 actually before this I was a lawyer So doing I was working in the courtroom doing all that stuff and drawing comments on the side going to conventions And I think 2003 2004 at Boston the only wizard Boston show Marvel came by I said you want to work for us in the year later. What if spider-man book came out? Up from there a lot of people want to know like how to get the comics and how do you follow your dream? What I always tell people is Listen your parents go to school You know do the real job. All right. I mean I did the law thing for years. I did this on the side You know, so there's always a security there. So it was time to quit. It was easy. I just said This is how much money I make you want me to draw full-time you need me to pay me, you know So and then so it was an easy switch. I didn't have to struggle You know what I mean? So if you want to do something fun my advice I'm that there's a different path for everybody here. My advice is Get a regular job. It doesn't matter how much it stinks. How much you hate it get that security All right, but always have a hobby. You know what I mean? You can make that switch easy without sacrificing anything for your family sacrificing anything for yourself It's an easy switch Well, I did some commercial stuff when I was in like high school I did like those commercial signs that you see like for construction companies are like man, you know I can make some go off and there's things going all right. Then when I got into college I was doing some ad work for solo cups doing like clean-up work and stuff like that But then I went to school for fashion illustration and I worked for you know Department stores and stuff like that doing their stuff, but once I got burnt up from that a buddy of mine was in comics Already and he needed some help. So I started working on them. I'm like man, this seems kind of cool And something you did when you were a kid. I wanted to get into it So I started doing that I came to like conventions like this to Show off some artwork and stuff like that see like Walton and everybody else showed like already pros, you know Do I have the chops to do that? I showed them they should you know told me what I should work on Once you another convention, and then they offered me a job I did a couple of independent things like doing backgrounds for people, but for my own professional work Yeah, my role is my first big I did Wolverine 96 and that was my first gig and then from there I did a lot of X-Men books villains and then after that I started jumping around different companies But primarily work for Marl What's going on? We're here now with the independent portion that I'll call honestly the comic book game HB Comics stands for Hebert Brothers This is my brother Alan I Artistic director My name is Mark Slater. I'm a freelance illustrator who's right now been working in the comic book industry For the last year promoting myself in the local Boston Comic-Con scene I myself have been to three different art schools So I have varying degrees of proficiencies in all mediums and comic books It's just what I keep getting pulled to. I'm an illustrator cartoonist. I also do my own artwork. I Do my own posters and graphic design as well. I also draw comics for severed-head comics. I contribute to everything I can I just try to do strange quirky artwork stuff that people haven't seen I always wanted to do film But I just it was so hard to get into and you got to move to like California if you really want to do anything so I thought what can I do that's creative and Makes money at the same time. And so I went into graphic design I always say you have to start from day one. Start with the first page. If you always have ideas, but it never comes out It always stays in their head. If you draw that first page, if you write that first line, that's how you get started Yeah, that's