So in the past few years, I put myself in artist boot camp with my wife, who is also an artist, guiding me. It helps me to keep perspective and proportions intact. I can have it right there and compare to see where I’m going wrong. However, in the last five to six years, tablet technology has developed the means where you can draw directly on the screen. I never figured I would end up doing comic art I wanted to write. Being in a wheelchair has me see things different necks would end up too thin, torsos longer, legs shorter. With my face so close to the paper, I can’t keep that perspective. One of the problems is, when I’m on paper, I can’t look at a whole scene or a person posing and go back and forth, staying true to the anatomy. Sandman, to me, made me realize, “That’s what comics are….and that’s what I want to do.”īut as an artist, I mostly focused on doing caricatures. Then my friend handed me a copy of Sandman and that was it. At this point, movies like The Crow and Batman movies were just coming out and helping comics break back into the mainstream.
I was living back in a metropolitan area with access. Up until that point, comics had mostly been a kid thing. So then in college in Phoenix, I got The Crow graphic novel before the movie came out and that showed me that comics can do things for adults too. I was living in Havasu at the time and there weren’t any comic shops in the area. Then I became a big fan of role-playing games, partly because comics stopped being outside of comic shops. Y’know, the ones with the ads to send in for war figures or the little sea monkey colonies…I’m totally dating myself right now… I never really stuck with it or collected comics though. I was mostly a Marvel kid and I would go to the store my dad managed and get the newest Wolverine or X-Men book. Larime Taylor: As a fan, I grew up in the 80’s, when you could go get a comic on the spinner racks at your local convenience store or gas station. Rob Hudak: When did you first decide to start writing comics, both as a fan and an artist? If you’re reading this, my instructions to you are as follows: The series has received praise across the board and with good reason. Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Larime Taylor, writer, illustrator, everything-er of A Voice in the Dark, published through Top Cow Productions through Image.
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