get the necessary response. As far as choices, obligations, responsibilities, and ultimately, the consequences of those decisions, every
one of us in every situation we are faced with has choices. It is the
decisions that we make and move forward with that finally converge and give us the consequences. Again though, as I mentioned
above, children will make different choices from adults, but with that
said, it is how the characters learn or move beyond those choices
and change, always growing into ultimately who that character
(child or adult) will ultimately become, whether that be good or
evil. Fundamentally, it is always about change!
SP!: WILL ALL OF THESE WORKS BE PRESENTED AS MINISERIES,
SELF-CONTAINED GRAPHIC NOVELS, OR BOTH?
definitely brought things that I had learned from the comic book
industry to my work in the film industry and vice versa. Things that
I put into effect in regard to Inkwerk Studios I tried to bring to my
marketing and advertising for Times like These. Some things worked
and some things didn’t. It is definitely a trial-and-error type of thing
and it is always a learning process. But. regardless of whether it
worked or not, it definitely helped to look at different situations in
both mediums with a different set of skills and a different way of
doing things.
SP!: CAN YOU COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE DIFFERENCES IN
MARKETING COMICS VERSUS FILMS IN SOCIAL MEDIA?
AZ: I definitely can! Comic books and film, I feel, lend themselves
AZ: Each book is, for lack of a better word, an ongoing series. to a similar format. For me as a writer of comic books, knowing
However, with that said, what I mean by that is that each story arc what goes into the writing, I feel the writer is basically the direcof four, six, eight, or however many issues will be self-contained as a tor and the artist is the camera that brings the writer/director’s
miniseries and, when complete, it would stand alone as a complete vision to life. It is a collaborative effort and when you click with the
story arc. Then the next miniseries/story arc would begin and so on rest of the people on your project/team, magic can definitely be
and so forth. Then, from there, each story arc/miniseries would
be packaged together into collected graphic novel editions.
Future projects and books will be determined on a book-bybook basis. What I mean by that is that if we feel that the project
would be better suited as a graphic novel, we will package it as
such. If we feel it would be better suited as single issues, we will
package it as such. Something else that I wanted to touch on
briefly as well is our anthology titled THE COLLECTION #1. This
is a sampling of some of our current and upcoming books/projects. What we plan on doing with this anthology is giving the
readers a wide and varied selection of new projects throughout
from our company, as we release THE COLLECTION #2, and so
on. By doing so, we can get feedback and see what sticks and
what doesn’t, what the readers gravitate towards and what they
tend to lean away from. We can then tweak our slate of books
and upcoming projects by testing the waters and launching
books out of the anthology that we know there is an audience
to support.
SP!: LET’S LOOK AT YOUR WRITING OUTSIDE OF COMIC BOOKS.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE SHORT FILM, TIMES LIKE THESE, OF WHICH
IMDB.COM (HT TP://WWW.IMDB.COM/TITLE/T T2914846/
FULLCREDITS?REF_=T T_OV_ST_SM) STATES: “THE FILM
RELIVES THE EXPERIENCE OF MARISOL, A WOMAN WHOSE
PAST WILL SHED LIGHT ON AN ISSUE MOST WOMEN KEEP
HIDDEN BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.” YOU ARE LISTED IN THE
CREDITS AS THE SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING AND MANAGER.
HOW DID THAT EXPERIENCE HELP YOU MARKET YOUR OWN
PROJECTS AT INKWERK STUDIOS?
AZ: I had actually been working on everything Inkwerk Studios
when I was hired as the social media marketing manager on
Times like These. So, it was kind of a double-crossover effect. I
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