American Terror: Confession of a Human Smart Bomb Vol.2
American Terror: Confession of a Human Smart Bomb Vol.1
  | story JEFF McCOMSEY and JAMES COOPER art JEFF McCOMSEY November 11th, 2041. Nobody celebrates Veteran's Day anymore. Victor Sheppard is an old man in a new world of peace and equality. Millions of people died and the world is a better place, but nobody remembers why. Haunted by his dead comrades, Victor decides to do the one thing he thought he'd never do: Spill his guts. "This is a solid book, no question. It has the side-effect of becoming habit-forming." -5/5 Stars, Alex Haas, IndyComicReview.com 80 pgs, BW, $9.95, ISBN: 9780979787492, Diamond: APR083508, Haven: AMETT01 |       |
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5 Questions with...
Jeff McComsey (American Terror: Confession of a Human Smart Bomb, Attack of the Alterna Zombies, Jesus Hates Zombies: Those Slack-Jaw Blues)
e-mail jmccomsey@lawyer.com
What other books, if any, have you had published?
Iused to self-publish an anthology called High Noon presents. We did twelve issues zine-sized and one standard comic sized issue. I did a book called Nine Months with Jorge Vega and I did a short for Jesus Hates Zombies with Stephen Lindsay. Recently I did a 15-page short for Alterna's Free Comic BookDay book called Attack of the Alterna
Zombies, also with Stephen Lindsay.
Name 5 of your favorite graphic novels/trades:
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo. black and white political intrigue at it's finest, also there are exploding cities. In my humble opinion, the greatest series ever published.
Corto Maltese series by Hugo Pratt. Another beautiful piece of black and white sequential art. It was the first series that exposed me to european comics and a broader understanding of what our medium can do when you just relax and have fun.
The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. This book is responsible for revitalizing my interest in creating comics. Before that I had never read a story with such realized characters and depth. Dave Gibbons is in my opinion one of the finest sequential artist out there. He can draw ANYTHING, and I have never seen him go off model, Which is a problem I struggle with in my work.
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. This is a book that I loved before I even finished reading it. Mazzuchelli's art is flawless in it's simplicity. As an Artist I struggle with over drawing a page, or how much detail "sells" a panel. What Mazzuchelli does brilliantly is render a panel with minimal detail but still gives the perfect amount of information to reader. All around excellence, from the writing and Art to the coloring, which generally at the time of it's publishing wasn't great.
Birth/ Novo series by Michael Bracco. This book has everything I love about this medium. It's black and white, original and it's long. I think it was released first in 2007 and is already well over 300 pages. This is the kind of series that keeps me inspired as a creator, and I believe by the time this series is done it will be up there with Jeff Smith's Bone or Dave Sims' Cerebus.
Corto Maltese series by Hugo Pratt. Another beautiful piece of black and white sequential art. It was the first series that exposed me to european comics and a broader understanding of what our medium can do when you just relax and have fun.
The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. This book is responsible for revitalizing my interest in creating comics. Before that I had never read a story with such realized characters and depth. Dave Gibbons is in my opinion one of the finest sequential artist out there. He can draw ANYTHING, and I have never seen him go off model, Which is a problem I struggle with in my work.
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. This is a book that I loved before I even finished reading it. Mazzuchelli's art is flawless in it's simplicity. As an Artist I struggle with over drawing a page, or how much detail "sells" a panel. What Mazzuchelli does brilliantly is render a panel with minimal detail but still gives the perfect amount of information to reader. All around excellence, from the writing and Art to the coloring, which generally at the time of it's publishing wasn't great.
Birth/ Novo series by Michael Bracco. This book has everything I love about this medium. It's black and white, original and it's long. I think it was released first in 2007 and is already well over 300 pages. This is the kind of series that keeps me inspired as a creator, and I believe by the time this series is done it will be up there with Jeff Smith's Bone or Dave Sims' Cerebus.
Which writer or artist has had the biggest influence on your work?
Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira are books that I’m constantly drawing inspiration from for American Terror. That series topped out at 2,500 pages and gets progressively better with each book. He manages to convey such scale and at the same time never loses the small moments that make characters endearing. Every time I think I can’t draw another page I just pull out a random book from the series and charge my art batteries.
Guy Davis is an artist whose work I could look at until the sun burns out. That guy has an excellent sense of design and his creatures are fantastic.
Garth Ennis is a guy who writes the kind of books I love to read. His Preacher books and his run on the Punisher are some of my favorite books to date. I reread them all the time.
Guy Davis is an artist whose work I could look at until the sun burns out. That guy has an excellent sense of design and his creatures are fantastic.
Garth Ennis is a guy who writes the kind of books I love to read. His Preacher books and his run on the Punisher are some of my favorite books to date. I reread them all the time.
If a movie were based on your book, who would be the star and which role would they play?
I’ve thought a lot about this and for Victor Sheppard I would want somebody who could be the action hero but also was a little offbeat and even a little nerdy. I’m thinking Adrian Brody, with Homer Hegal being played by Nick Nolte and Dolph Lundgren playing Albert Wexler.
If you could do anything in the world for a living, what would it be (aside from comics)?
I would like to do pre-production stuff like character and background designs for animated or live action features... or maybe a fry cook on Venus.
