Barb Lien-Cooper & Park Cooper
Happy Halloween from Wicker Man Studios! Here’s Liz from GUN STREET GIRL and a werewolf! (She’s not a werewolf. She’s just yelling at one. But we stuck what she’s yelling at behind her, because otherwise it was hard to get them both in the same shot.)
Anyway: We have a NEW book available! It’s THE TALKING CURE BOOK TWO: TRANSFERENCE or THE MAN IN THE LIGHT GRAY SUIT!
(more…)Adventures in Cryptozoology: The Paul Dini Interview
Once upon a time, there was a column about comic books and pop culture that Park and Barb wrote for a website that shall remain nameless, and that column was entitled THE PARK AND BARB SHOW.
We wrote it for 12 years.
It’s mostly gone now, except for Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine function, but there was some stuff in there I want to put here. So I will.
One thing I did there, long ago, was that I interviewed Paul Dini– in 2006. So that seemed relevant to the craft of writing, so here it is again below.
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Hi there! Happy #INDIEpendence! #INDIEpendence is a thing happening in July to celebrate indie artistic endeavors– such as indie comics!
As such, we’re helping bring attention to a couple of Kickstarters for indie comics that are running RIGHT NOW by doing mini-interviews! (Why, yes, most of the questions ARE from the Bernard Pivot Questionnaire that James Lipton always asked at the end of Inside the Actors Studio, thank you for noticing!)
First up: Winston Gambro, creator of HAUNTED HOUSE: A LOVE STORY:
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1. What is your favorite word?
–Lush
2. What is your least favorite word?
–Pneumonia
3. What sound or noise do you love?
–Machine Whirring
4. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
–Stunt Man
5. Please talk about your current project for 4 or 5 sentences…!
–A beautiful house is cursed with the gift of life– it soon falls in love with its sole occupant, its own architect. Unfortunately for the house, the architect is oblivious to the house’s sentience, and finds forbidden romance with his doctor. The house acts out in vengeance, setting off a tragic chain of events that ripple through the next century, entrapping a diverse assortment of couples, each seeking their own romance. As each pair of lovers grapples with their own romance, the house’s grief warps their journey into horrific ends.
If you’re interested in seeing what happens next, the entire horror/romance graphic novel is on Kickstarter here!
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Next up: David Doub of DUSK: LOVE BITES!
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1. What is your favorite word?
–Onomatopoeia
2. What is your least favorite word?
–Dave (David is the only true term!)
3. What sound or noise do you love?
–SHRRAKADOOM
(Now I am at work just going Shrrakadoom everywhere…)
4. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
–Be a comic book artist. I have a mad dream to make a comic complete myself, from making the paper, to binding the book, to doing it all!
5. Please talk about your current project for 4 or 5 sentences…!
–Dusk: Love Bites plays off of the unrequited love the female lead has for her Vampire Lord. So her unwilling paramour shows her how dark a Vampire Lord can be when it comes to their thralls. Little did either of them know this particular thrall only joined the dark ranks of the supernatural to escape the turmoil and persecution as a young gay man in the ’80s…
If you’re interested in seeing what happens next, here’s where you can sign up to get notified when this indie graphic novel’s campaign begins on Kickstarter!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/demonsinthedarkness/dusk-love-bites-0
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And THESE NEXT two links are about how if you’re one of the first 100 followers of David’s Kickstarter, you’ll get a huge bundle of indie comics– a bundle which also contains the entire graphic novel of HUNGRY GHOSTS by Barb and me (Park)!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLWER8jRkNK
As of the instant I am writing this, there’s room for 37 more! One of those people could be you!
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Okay, that’s it for this time– See you again soon!
So guess what: remember how we had a Kickstarter for Barb’s comic Gun Street Girl?! Well– if you didn’t know already– it made! That means it was successful! GSG’s going to be in color AND in print if people want it! The first volume, anyway! Isn’t that great?! Yes, yes it is! Thank you so much if you’re one of the people who helped make that happen!
As of this writing, our publisher, Rodolfo, of Lucha Comics, is almost ready to send the PDF to the printers to start on the print copies. I think that’ll start happening later this week?
But anyway… we were exhausted. It is very nerve-wracking to do a Kickstarter, whether it makes or not. Then it was one of my busy times of the year… But now, we’re trying to come back.
So anyway, as a reward for you, here’s a couple of brand-new-to-you episodes of our podcast Married Geek Couple. It’s on Spotify and other places one finds podcasts, but only here do I link to examples of some of the songs and stuff we’re talkin’ about… So here they are…
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This is just a preview of the very start of our prose novel SONG TO THE SIREN:
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CHAPTER ONE
If I reply to this email, thought Samantha, I’ll have to tell them what really happened. The whole thing. The slow way. Because if I just came out and tried to explain the truth to them all at once, they’d… She stared at the email that was waiting, on her computer screen, for her to reply to it…
Dear Ms. MacNamara… it began…
Samantha frowned. What would they do… if I really tried to explain what happened back then? What would anyone do? It’s why I’ve never told a single living soul...
She looked up above her monitor, at the wall of her home office, at the framed photograph of a handsome young man holding a guitar. His long blond hair was flying around as he played. He was smiling at the camera, at the person taking his picture… In the background was the rest of the band, with the drum set that bore the stylized logo of the Big Carnival. “Am I really sure I want to be interviewed, Reed?” Sam asked the young man in the photo. “Music press people, diehard fans, even people I trusted, I’ve never told anyone about… what happened. It’s amazing that after all of these years, people are still interested in you and the Big Carnival.”
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Hey there folks. Remember when Barb and I recorded a lot of podcast episodes while we were driving to my mother’s house for Thanksgiving this last November? Well guess what (don’t bother, I’ll just tell you), we did the same thing again at Christmas! Here are the first three new episodes from that experience!
Road Trip TWO, Episode ONE: Songs and Fallout London
Some songs Barb and/or Park mention in this episode:
Road Trip TWO, Episode TWO: Austin Radio and Bill Bixby’s Hulk
Road Trip TWO, Episode THREE: Lou Rawls, Fleetwood Mac, and Road Trips
Hi! Time for the conclusion of our Thanksgiving Road Trip! BUT I want to give you a link one more time for watching our live Q&A session we did– it was on Instagram (and still is), but this new link to Pinterest has subtitles and is just technically a little better and so on: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/215680269651358218/
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Hi! Time for more of the Road Trip! BUT ALSO: have you seen the recording of our live Q&A session on Instagram? If not, click this link to watch it: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEqgsakJMFQ/?igsh=OXo1eHo0OTh4aXNi
Okay, now back to the audio files from our Road Trip!
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Hi! Park here again, with MORE of our new podcast, MARRIED GEEK COUPLE! (As you’ll know if you’ve read our previous posts, it’s on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, IHeartRadio, and I think one or two other platforms (just search for Married Geek Couple !) –but of course you can also listen to it here!)
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