KICKSTARTER KORNER CHATS WITH MARK MCKENNA ABOUT COMBAT JACKS! AT FORCES OF GEEK

Legendary Big Two Inker and Inkwell Awards Hall of Famer Mark McKenna joins Kickstarter Korner to tell us about his latest campaign to unleash issue #2 of Combat Jacks

An alien prison planet Maia lives on the other side of our sun, occupied by killer pumpkins! We don’t see how a pumpkin planet can be more sincere than this one! Space Marines are sent to investigate AWOL prisoners and pesky pumpkins in Combat Jacks!

 



FOG!: Thanks for joining us, Mark. Combat Jacks originated as a dinner table conversation. Why Jack-O-Lanterns?

Mark McKenna: It was around Halloween and something clicked in my mind that Jack O’ Lanterns are meant to be scary, yet there weren’t really any amazing Jack monsters in movies or books that I could think of, with a few exceptions, so along with my son, it became dinner table banter and went on from there.

Most people know you as an inker for the big two and Inkwell Awards Hall of Famer. Is Combat Jacks your first foray into writing?

I have also created and written my kids books, Banana Tail and Friends.  But other then those books, this is my first writing for this genre.

Jason Baroody’s pencils are great too, how did you hook up with him and the rest if your art team including our friend John Hunt?

Jason came to me by way of our, at the time, mutual art rep, Bob Shaw. I had met Jason at a few shows, but really didn’t know his work. When we got to talking and he was gung ho to take a shot at it, I believe I flattered him by offering it to him and he told me, in fact, that if he didn’t need to make a living, he’d have worked for free on it just to have the chance to work with me.. so, in essence, flattery gets you everywhere.

I cant recall where I met John Hunt, but I do know he was hungry and multi-talented and you can never have enough guys that have a wealth of digital and artistic knowledge.

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EARTH PRIME TIME: WHORE WITH WRITER JEFFREY KAUFMAN & LETTERER JOHN HUNT

Whore by Zenescope - Serrano/KaufmanWhore is a new graphic novel from Zenescope Entertainment mixing equal amounts sex, violence, and espionage. What happens when an amoral CIA agent is fired and goes freelance? The answer could be Jacob Mars, a guy that will take any job he can get. In this double-sized interview we talk with writer Jeffrey Kaufman (Big City Comics, Terminal Alice) and in a rare opportunity, we get an exclusive glimpse into the lettering process with LeaguePodcast host and comics professional John Hunt (IDW’s Star Trek, Athena Voltaire).  

Thanks for talking with us, Jeffrey. We heard you had a big bash last Wednesday to celebrate Whore!
Jeffrey: Yeah, Aaron, the owner of A Comic Shop, invited me to sign there.  A little pizza, a little cake and an undisclosed amount of alcohol always make for a fun signing.

What kind of outrageous acts went down at the signing?
We brought one of the “Whore” cages where the only way you can get a “Whore” t-shirt is to sit in the cages for a certain amount of time.  Like usual, I never know what’s going to happen and as the rule states “whatever happens in the cages winds up on Facebook”.