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Creator Spotlight vol.3 | ADAM LUMB Welcome to another Creator Spotlight! This week we’ve been catching up with Adam Lumb about his debut title ‘The Tide’ - a female-led fantasy horror thriller in the form of a lusciously-produced European style hardback. Available for £12.99 with your SuperCard Go! Hey Adam! Congratulations on the publication of The Tide! There are an increasing number of people using KickStarter to fund comics projects in recent years and I’m curious to hear about your experience using the platform to launch a debut title. What drew you to KS and what were some of the things that helped and hindered you on your mission? There's no way I could have funded The Tide with the production quality I wanted to achieve without crowdfunding it. Kickstarter is great in two ways. It allows customers to effectively pre-order (and Kickstarter helps give potential backers a sense of security and trust to unknown projects). Secondly it effectively tests whether there is a market for the book. (Hitting my goal was a huge relief.) Doing the writing, pencils, inks and colours myself helped because I knew it was in my control (since it was all on me) and the Letterer on the book, Jim Campbell, is highly experienced and reliable. However doing all the rest yourself is exhausting. Anyone who finishes any book deserves a pat on the back. The other thing that really helped was listening to http://www.comixlaunch.com/podcast-archive/ . You don't have to agree with everything in the podcast (and not everything with my campaign followed the usual path expected) but the podcast asks good questions and helps you avoid pitfalls along the way. For example, without the podcast I would have set my funding goal way too high. Most of the backers were not known to me (all around the world and at least half from the United States) and the perceived wisdom is you need a big email list of contacts going in (which makes sense and I only had a small list). I ensured as many people as possible backed on the first day but I was also fortunate that the book was selected by Kickstarter as one of their Projects We Love and that well known creators like Kieron Gillen backed the book on Kickstarter. Any new creator is struggling to get eyeballs on their new comic so any extra exposure really helps. That's why Travelling Man's small-press work is so good for supporting new creators. Thank you! We do our best :) Was the full-colour, European hardback format something you were dead set on when it came time to print or is there an alternative future where The Tide would have been a staple-bound black and white zine instead? The Tide was always going to be colour (and I had a clear vision for this) but originally it was in fact going to be a "floppy" US format comic. The book is drawn on 11 x 17 paper on a grid designed for US format. However I decided to invert the traditional comics publishing model for The Tide. As many will know the traditional US model was to do floppies and then collect into paperback or hardback trade editions. I decided to release through my imprint Rich and Strange Press as hardback first as traditional prose book publishing industry always has. So for those who want a premium hardback, and don't want to wait, they can get this now. I'll then be releasing the digital and lower priced floppy down the line. (Or think Cinema release and then DVD if you prefer that analogy). And yes I know that's different to how everyone else is publishing comics... :-) The other thing that changed was that Milas Clay was originally going to be a man and was written as such in the script. At the last minute when I began drawing I flipped it. But she kept the name and made the whole character more interesting. I believe it happened with the movie Salt which was written for Tom Cruise and then cast Angelina Jolie. This project has been 20 years in the making; what convinced you it had reached its final form and what did it take for things to reach that stage? What a great question. I had to get good enough (measured by my own standards - no-one was stopping me). So I waited until I felt my first small-press, self-published title was of a standard I felt I could put out there. Of course now it is time for others to judge it. And of course I'm already thinking about how to make volume 2 better. This is my first comic ever so not just a debut for The Tide but for me too. You definitely learn from finishing something and seeing it all the way through. Even if it is just the first volume in a series. What can people expect from The Tide, and what should we expect to see from you next? The whole Tide Story script is written and finished and I can't wait for people to read the ending. But before then expect around 12 volumes to get us there. This is Witness Protection in Hell... Thanks for taking the time to chat to us, Adam! Be sure to check out https://www.artofadamlumb.com/ for more work and updates!

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First look: @ArtofAdamLumb's demonic 'witness protection' thriller THE TIDE sails to Kickstarter this Sept Here at An Englishman In San Diego, we're big proponents of supporting home-grown comic talent where we can, whether it's by sharing updates of UK conventions, spreading the word about signings and exhibitions, and posting about new releases from up-and-coming artists and writers which we think are worth checking out.