Today’s episode has Greg chatting with emerging comics creator and mechanical engineer Clayton Rozman about his upcoming 80-page western horror original graphic novel Yellow Moon, featuring art by Bruno Letizia and lettering by Ferran Delgado. Yellow Moon follows hunter Henry Tremblay and sidekick mutt Spango as they investigate the silent Colorado mountain town of Carpenter Falls, find everyone dead, and become trapped in a snowbound survival-horror creature feature with themes of facing fears. But while the conversation takes turns talking about horror and atmosphere and using comics-specific tools like lettering and coloring to pull off an experience not easily replicated in other media, a recurring touchpoint is Rozman’s engineering day job and how that analytical mindset comes to play in his creative work. Measure twice, cut once, and keep breaking things until you figure out how to keep them from breaking….

[This episode is number 844 in a series.]

CHAPTERS

00:00 – Intro
02:18 – Cold (Email) Calling
04:12 – The Pitch
06:05 – Engineer By Day
09:55 – Learning To Write Comics
16:28 – Denny O’Neil Lessons (and Iron Man Digression)
22:16 – Lettering As Storytelling
29:52 – Finding The Team
34:30 – From Miniseries to Original Graphic Novel
37:18 – The Power of Snowflakes
42:50 – Writing For An Artist
48:45 – Life After The Script
50:44 – Outro