as watching Sarah Palin attempt to make a cogent argument about
anything. I will say that I do use as photographic reference for backgrounds or to base certain characters on different people. Outside
of initial thumbnail sketches and rough pencils that I scan into the
‘puter, I produce all of the work digitally. If you want to know more,
ask the NSA.
SP!: CURRENTLY, YOU ARE RELEASING THE TITLE DIGITALLY
ONLINE. ANY PLANS FOR THE STORY SEEING PRINT?
Steven: Once I get the first four or five issues completed, I will post
them on POD sites as individual 24-page comics. I’ll probably use
Ka-Blam and IndyPlanet at first, but I’ll explore other options, as
well. Once the entire story is done, I plan to release it as a self-contained graphic novel via a POD service, like CreateSpace. I’ll take
advantage of whatever options available to me.
SERIES OR HAVE A DEFINITE ENDING?
Steven: This is Episode One: Faith and Media. It’s not meant to be
an ongoing series. If Faith Fallon takes off, I could produce a sequel,
but at the same time, it wouldn’t be something I feel has to happen.
Always leave then wanting more, I say. Still, nothing would make
me happier than to see Faith become America’s Sweetheart in the
real world, as well as the comic book world she inhabits. I can assure
you, she feels the same way. Again, there are only so many hours in
a day, so I may end up being the J.D. Salinger or Harper Lee of indy
graphic novels. This might be my one and only creation.
I may run a Kickstarter campaign as well. I’m weighing the pros
and cons of crowd funding. I’ve read some good things and some
bad things, and I know a few guys who succeeded, failed miserably, or worse, hit the goal and then some and still lost money. The
last thing I want is to end up spending more than I take in. At least
with POD, there are minimal—if any—upfront costs.
SP!: AS AN INDY CREATOR, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES
THAT YOU FACE?
Steven: The biggest challenge is not wasting money and time. I
have to invent time to work on this project, as it is. I simply do not
have the time to promote the heck out of Faith Fallon as well. I
will not waste my money on social media “experts” and their false
promises of traffic up the wazoo if you pay them up the aforementioned wazoo. It doesn’t work. I keep my blog going; I tweet and
try to take advantage of social media. I prefer to depend on organic
search, word-of-mouth, and interviews like this, and hopefully, the
word will spread.
I would hate to see Faith get lost in a sea of indy comics, but I only
have so much time in a day. I work full time and I have my family. I
don’t work on Faith during the weekends. That’s family time. I don’t
want my kids to remember me as some self-centered goof that drew
all the time and never did things with them. Luckily, I don’t have
a deadline, but I promise not to take as long to finish it as Quinn
and Vigil did to complete Faust: Love of the Damned, which was
worth the wait.
SP!: COULD YOU SHARE WHAT INSPIRED THIS STORY? WHY DID
YOU FEEL THE NEED TO TELL IT?
Steven: The main inspiration is based on how I see people worship
I find it a challenge to write a story about someone who really isn’t celebrity in this country. Faith is loved for her work, but she’s
likeable as a person but no one cares because she’s famous and not exactly someone you want to be friends with. Love the art,
good looking and they aren’t personally involved in her life. She’s not the artist. I’m sure a lot of people got to meet a favorite ball
a media creation and people love to live vicariously through celeb- player, comic artist, or movie star, and they turned out to be a total
douche. This is her biography; her story from famous to infamous.
rity. Men want her, women want to be her.
SP!: IN TERMS OF THE TITLE, WILL FAITH FALLON BE AN ONGOING The second inspiration is more personal. There’s still a part of me
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