Maybe, maybe not. But what we do know is we have so much freedom in this format and we can really interact with our fans with is a lot of fun for us. The pages you've posted so far have got a really unique artistic flair to them. Can you tell us about your artist, Christian Meesey, and how you started working together?
He's a genius. We worked together on "Contropussy. His rate went way up since we first started! Thankfully for him he can command that rate because people in the industry are seeing how amazingly talented he is. He is also super nice and a great collaborator, so there's that.
You're once again working with Camilla Rantsen, your collaborator on "Contropussy" and the "Bandwagon" web series. How has your creative process developed together over these projects and what has your process been like so far for "Ripped?
Well Camilla and I have been friends for years so we have a great short hand, you know? From the moment we began working on screenplays we worked seamlessly together. One of us begins writing usually her and the other continues. This process continues on until we are finished. We will have writer meetings and discuss where things are with the story as we are writing to ensure a smooth through line. We will sometimes see things unfold and get re inspired by something we thought we would be a minor touch and then expand upon it.
Really we just laugh a lot and bask in our genius and wonder why more people aren't seeing what we are seeing. After that we congratulate ourselves on our modesty. Speaking of "Contropussy," the series is set to be released as a graphic novel from IDW later this year. What can you tell us about the collection? We are very excited about that. We can say we have been published. We will have unused sketches and other cool Meesey art as well as the finished arc of what we started on the web.
I don't know whose idea it was to not finish it online but instead finish it in the [collected] book, but it's awesome. As for whatever else IDW has in store, I couldn't tell you. What did you learn from developing "Contropussy" that you applied to your process doing "Ripped? Well once you do something once it only gets easier with each passing try. We knew nothing about the comic world when we started and now we have a lot of tools and knowledge under our belt.
We had always set up the format for iPad and we continue to do that. We are proud that we were one of the first to do that, actually. We were tech savvy and didn't know it. We also knew we needed to make the site pop and attract people to stay around. We are very proud of the site Jen Sylvester and Mark Ford put together.
As for people sticking around? Time will tell Why do you think Kickstarter is a good platform to launch these projects and how would you measure its success as relates to "Ripped? Thank God for KS. Kickstarter is like Starbucks. They got in early, branded themselves and became the go to place for crowd sourcing. There are others that I'm sure are great but I haven't worked with them.
They know what they're doing. Caulfield: What influences me? God, if I knew the answer to that I would never be without inspiration. I am most moved by striking visuals and music, ideally combined. I think comics have given us some our greatest heroes and anti-heroes.
Part of their greatness came from writers having the luxury of time in developing their many, many levels. I wait to have something to say and hope that there will be people there to listen. Nrama: Tell us about Contropussy. How was that experience, and what did you learn about the form during the making of that series?
Caulfield: Well we were playing around mainly We were like kids in a candy shop with no one putting rules and restrictions on us.
That was something I had never experienced creatively so I embraced it fully. Contropussy was a big learning curve for us in many ways.
Simultaneously, we were learning how to navigate that world without alienating anyone. The format took a minute to get used to as well. We had only ever written screenplays which map out their beats quite differently. In many ways the comic format has become my favorite in which to write. Nrama: Now that you have the band back together for Ripped, how did the ball get rolling on the new series? And why did you choose a Ripper story in particular?
We are also surrounded by friends who have varying degrees of psychic abilities and how and why they can do what they do is endlessly fascinating. To give Ripper as a story point the background of a psychic university, seemed like a natural evolution in the story we wanted to tell. Plus, we like to explore the dark, thematically, and who better to do that with than good old Jack? Nrama: You have quite a large section devoted to your Kickstarter friends on the site.
Caulfield: We used Kickstarter to raise money to make the comic. It was pretty simple really. I whored myself a lot to get that money laughs. Thankfully we had so many people want to help us bring this to light and our thank you section reflects that. Does the whole team plot together, or do you have a definitive flow for the step-by-step? Caulfield: Camilla and I work seamlessly together. She is the most prolific writer I have ever met. We bounce ideas off each other. Then one of us writes for a little bit and then the other one takes over.
We do that for as long as it takes for us to finish whatever it is we are collaborating on. Once she and I have the story mapped out and the strips written we call them episodes actually , we hand them off to the rest of our brilliant team who make our words and ideas come to life. It astonishes me weekly just how gifted Christian Meesey is as an artist and Thomas as a master of finding places to hold all our words.
And we like to say a lot!. In the end, we try to be at least two to three weeks ahead of the dropping dates, just in case other things come up, which they always do.
Nrama: How long do you expect Ripped to go? Do you have a projected end-date in mind for the series, or is it open-ended? Could the audience influence that? Caulfield: We have written out in broad strokes a four season arc for this.
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