Monday, January 06, 2020

Ask Me Anything #64





With the new year I thought it might be worth putting up another Ask Me Anything Post. It's been a while since I've done one, and I have no idea if there's still any interest, or if anyone even looks at this blog anymore.

Blogging seeming to be on the wane as other, more immediately gratifying, forms of social media have taken people's fancy, and readership has shifted elsewhere. Meaning that my own posting efforts, just like most people's, have shifted elsewhere more and more as well.

I've always preferred Blogger over other forms simply because it allows me to cover things more in depth than other delivery services, and to delve into somethings that I wouldn't really think felt at home on say, Facebook, or certainly Instagram.

This blog was set up primarily as a means of promoting my work, share some of my process and inspirations and, hopefully, steer people towards some things of interest and enjoyment I've found along the way. For the past few years I've broken away from monthly comics and have been working on longer range projects that I can't share yet, which means that this blog has not really had the content is was designed for.

So, while "Ask Me Anything" is meant for you to ask anything you are curious about regarding my work, inspirations, opinions on anything, or pretty much any other thing you may want to know from me, I'd like to also start by asking you what sort of content you'd like to see here so that it's not months of empty space, and returns to something worth checking in on. Certainly feel free to ask me anything as well.

Questions can be posted in the comments section below, and I'll either answer them there, or in a separate post sometime later in the month.

I've been asked a lot of good, thought provoking questions in the past as well as some really banal ones, all of which I tried to answer. You can see the previous questions by visiting Ask Me Anything  #1#2 ,  #3#4#5#6 , #7 , #8#9,  #10,  #11,  #12 , #13#14,  #15 , #16#17 , #18 , #19,  #20,  #21#22,  #23#24#25#26#27#28#29#30#31#32#33#34#35#36#37#38#39#40#41#42,  #43#44#45,  #46#47,  #48#49,  #50,  #51#52 , #53#54#55#56,  #57,  #58,  #59, and #60 , #61#62 and #63

Answers not found following the questions can be found in the archives section for each associated month under Ask Me Anything.

Now ask away. 

4 comments:

Ray Cornwall said...

I might be late to the party, but what the hey.

Recently, after a separation and a move, I unpacked, framed, and hung up my old Xombi poster by Moebius. It’s still one of my favorite pieces of art. Did you have any involvement with the piece of with Moebius? What’s your favorite piece of Xombi artwork?

Unknown said...

Hey! I wanted to know if you offered any through the mail autographs? I love Kobalt and Xombi and it would be incredible to have an issue or two signed by the brain behind them both. If not thanks for your time and thanks for writing these awesome stories!

Unknown said...

jachecchio@gmail.com is my email. Said it would post this as my name but it just says unknown sorry for the spam

John Rozum said...

Ray, my apologies for the long lag time in responding to you. I actually did not have any involvement in the Moebius poster. The folks at Milestone were not particularly happy with the poster because despite being provided with character sketches, Moebius depicted David Kim as African American instead of Korean American and refsed to change it, so there was some color manipulation done to try and make the error less obvious, but if you look, you can tell. I think that poster was done before I even wrote the first issue.

I do not have a favorite piece of Xombi art. There are many covers I really like. I've had some great artists on the various comic book incarnations, and I have a sketchbook with a bunch of drawings from people like George Pratt, Chris Cross, Mike Mignola, Dave McKean, Jaime Hernandez, and Adam Hughes, just to name a few, and they are all great.