And welcome back so
yesterday was our traditional
book club, but we were offered
a satellite interview with
someone very unique the
authors of a new graphic novel
and who better to dive into
that interview that our friend
Conrad from the Springfield
Greene County library. So
Conrad. This one is all yours.
It's true. I'm kind of a
graphic novel nerd so when joy
gave me the opportunity to
talk to the creators of one of
graphic novels of the year.
How could I say no so for
the special edition of the
club help me welcome filmmaker
Duncan Jones and writer Alex
about Mattie once upon a time
in the future welcome guys
Duncan all start with Many
takes place in the same
universe as your films Moon
and mute. How did you that a
graphic novel was the best
approach for this project.
Well it's been it's been a
long time working out how
these stories will get made in
some things are very
challenging to do and I think
on.
90 could have been a movie
and would have been a movie
was a big project.
And the more thought about
it the more I thought it was a
graphic novel that I read when
I was a kid called trip that
ride on the Lawrence with the
artist on and how that
consumed in just absolutely
thrilled. Created this well,
but I'm so we kind of feel my
thought you know mattie's
actually the perfect fit for
this because it's a it's a
road story. It's the travels
from London to Shanghai and
know maybe a graphic novel
would be the way to do this.
Yeah that sounds super out
tell me about collaboration
this project.
been a fan of Duncan's film
work for He's he's really
fiction making it very very
grounded and character work
which I really appreciate as
as a writer myself and when he
was looking around for someone
to work with him on turning
this into a graphic novel. I
was I was thrilled that he
wanted to work with for for me
the great fun of this was a
lot of the technical you need
huge escape this Globe.
Spending story where you go
from from future London
Shanghai them back underneath
the ocean to Los Angeles and
And taking this giant story
and. Wrestling it it into
something that was a uniquely
screenplay but rather than
just doing the kind of direct
Taishan we want to turn into a
story that could be only told
in graphic novel form. So to
doing a lot of a visual work
that you could not do on film
yeah, and that was that was
one that was one of the
challenges I like the
technical challenges, sure
readers to take away from
Maddie's story.
woman's story side of it. I
think Alex is going to really
good sort of take on how you
know on the on the nature of
debt that all kind of leave to
her but what I would say is
that is that you know as as as
a piece of art. The fact is
that we got some of the
us all together to tell one
story. Yeah and that was due
to Alex's amazing ability to
kind break it down and and
reinterpreted as a graphic
novel segment out the story so
that each artist would have
something whole and complete
tell themselves what I want to
on which is you know.
I want them to be able to
lose themselves in it for a
few hours and come out with a
sense of catharsis enjoy you
know I'm in this book. It's so
dazzling is not can says it
really does know some of the
greatest comic art or just
working today. Drawing it
you're not able to go to
cinema right now and watch a
blockbuster in on a seasonally
not the same on your TV at
home. With Matt you can get
mad, you can sit down with it
and you can lose yourself in
it and lose yourself to
another world and escape the
coming in for a while and
that's that's that's what we
want. And we haven't achieved
that.
Yeah and the art inside of
it is super amazing. I love
how they're different artists
doing different parts of the
story and that's so so besides
the library where readers find
the book.
They can go to Z 2 comics
dot com you can order any
books or so you have that a
library or an independent
bookstore, an independent
comic love I strongly suggest
comics dot com slash Maddie M
a d I has a couple of special
edition, but the end print
runs for kickstarter not that
you can't get anywhere else
and if you order from Z 2
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nice nice all.
of Maddy once upon a time in
the future. Thank you so much
for joining us. Thank you.
All right and thank you
Connor at this is a hefty book
right here this is actually
the book it's very big. It's
very very involved in the art
like they said they have they
have several artists. Each
artist, a different sections.
And so you can kind of look at
the different sections and see
what the different artists did
with it and if you look in the
back it kind of gives you
sketches of the process of the
process that the different
artists took to do you know do
whatever they this thing is
huge to do you know whatever
they decided to do with it
they're sort of interpretation
of it.
So anyway, it's a really
really book and like they said
you know Duncan Jones being a
director thought you know this
is going to be huge for the
big screen. So they decided to
the graphic novel and again
Duncan Jones is David Bowie's
son that is the one that Bo
used to refer to as only gets
its and they funded this book
project via kickstarter. They
decided they wanted to do the
project and they've raised
over $600,000 were raised over
$600,000 to make this happen.
So anyway really interesting
so you know graphic.
Novels have big become more
don't remember seeing them or
maybe just wasn't my John or
that I was choosing a drive
same for me, but my kids have
been bringing some of these
how not this one particular
but you know I kind of wonder
how does it translate timewise
like a fire or reading a book
so that was that big I don't
know how fast do you get
through it and I don't know
there's a lot of questions I
have about those my kids
stuff when you have someone
around you should read should
to my to camp, he said you
should get lost in it so yeah,
I hard to well up next our