On the newest episode of Aaron’s Indie View I chat with my longtime collaborator and friend, Chris McJunkin. He shares the thee secrets he learned to survive as a professional artist and a variety of things he learned working comic conventions.
We also discuss the recent Justice League Snyder Cut film and the animated Invincible adaptation. We each share stories of the time we met Robert Kirkman (creator of Walking Dead and Invincible). I did not go into too much detail in the conversation, but I’ll elaborate a little further here.
As I say in the podcast, Robert Kirkman was the first professional comic writer I ever met and I was incredibly nervous to meet him. I met him and artist Ryan Ottley in the mid 00’s at a comic book shop where they were doing a book tour to promote their comics. This was before I had started to seriously try to write and produce anything. I would not go so far as to say that Kirkman was a large influence over my writing (not as large as many others, at least), but he was a large inspiration for me to stat writing my own comics.
I am a believer in the maxim “Never meet your heroes” and while Kirkman was nothing but professional and friendly, it was still a short and awkward meeting
Next week, I chat with Christopher J. Ochs, where we discuss filmmaking before and after the pandemic.
Take care and thanks for reading,
Aaron Walther