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Furious Five With Joe Keatinge: The Emerald City Comicon Edition [Interview]

Emerald City Comicon, a time when the “Seattle Freeze” thaws and comic creators, consumers, and costumers are welcomed into the city’s warm embrace. The event also marks the beginning of convention season, a frenzied (and friendly) whirlwind that will run until the close of New York Comic Con in October. In celebration of that beloved of all seasons – which has now managed to stretch to three-quarters of a year – we bring to you our Furious Five feature – five creators, five questions each. Allow ComicsAlliance to be your Grandmaster Flash as we race through the best of Emerald City Comicon. Next at bat? The always candid and charming Joe Keatinge, known for his work on Glory, Hell Yeah, and Morbius: The Living Vampire.

ComicsAlliance: The start of convention season can almost feel like another iteration of “getting the band back together.” Time spent with peers in close quarters is a given – a dream when that creative spark hits, but a nightmare when a colleague demands that eighth stop at Top Pot Doughnuts. Your camaraderie with your fellow creators is well known. Who would you pick as your “roadies” for a convention tour? Why?
Joe Keatinge: Well, I don’t know if I’d call them “roadies,” as that seems demeaning, but yeah – I would definitely agree that one of the best parts of being on the convention tour is seeing everybody again. I’m lucky that some buddies make the same convention tour rounds I do, like Eric Stephenson, Ron Richards, Brandon Graham, and Moritat. Then again, each convention is a little bit different, usually varied by region.

For instance, I rarely see Ross Campbell outside of New York Comic Con, so if I’m there, I like spending a lot of time with him. There’s also a lot of Marvel and DC staff I love hanging out with there too who, again, I’d rarely ever see otherwise. I’m really lucky to have editors whose company I highly enjoy, like Sana Amanat and Stephen Wacker from Morbius, but there’s also a lot of folks like James Viscardi, Ben Morse, Arune Singh, Ryan Penagos, Rickey Purdin, and Darren Shan, to name a few. Then there’s a bunch of retailers – folks like Dave Crispino from Collector’s Corner seem to be at every show. Plus, there’s all of Portland, which is kind of like living in a perpetual Comic Con at times. All of my studio mates at Tranquility Base are folks I’d be spending time with at cons if I didn’t already see them every single day.

In general, comics folks are good folks, so much so that if I listed everybody I like seeing here, we would use up the entire Internet.

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