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TIM SEELY Tim Seeley is a writer and penciler on such titles as Marvel’s Exiles and Devil’s Due Productions’ G.I. Joe. He is also the writer and creator of the comic book Hack/Slash, which follows the exploits of slasher hunter Cassie Hack and which has also been optioned to be a major motion picture from Rogue Pictures. On April 3, 2008, Tim was kind enough to take some time away from his busy schedule to share his opinions of and experiences with both comic book and horror movie podcasts.
HOUSTON: You’ve actually appeared on a few different comic podcasts, right? SEELEY: I have. Actually, I think it’s just because Chicago is kind of a comic book hometown and there’re a lot of guys doing it here. Most of them are within walking distance of my house. HOUSTON: Why do you think Chicago is such a magnet for podcasts? SEELEY: I don’t know. A lot of it is just that there’re a lot of stores here. Within five blocks of my house, there are probably at least four stores. That’s a high concentration. It’s weird. I wish I knew what did it. Looking out my window, I can see Jeffrey Brown’s house from here and a whole bunch of comic book creators live right around here. I guess Chicago just kind of draws a lot of people from the Midwest, so a lot of the creators from Wisconsin or Michigan or Indiana just sort of end up here because it’s sort of the best big city for the Midwestern creators who want to keep the Midwestern thing going. HOUSTON: What show have you appeared on most often? SEELEY: Crankcast is the most and I’ve done some episodes of Around Comics and then just various other stuff where I’ve been interviewed and stuff, a couple of horrors ones out of some other town that called me to be on. But thus far The Crankcast is kind of the one that I’ve done the most. HOUSTON: I’m pretty sure you were their first guest, too. SEELEY: I think so, yes, which is sad for them. I think they’ve moved on to bigger and better things now. HOUSTON: And you’re friends with Mike and Crank, right? SEELEY: Yeah. Actually I worked with both of them at Devil’s Due for a while and they’ve gone on to other stuff, but, yeah, I still see those guys for beers on a pretty regular schedule, so they’re still around.
Tim Seeley sketching at the 2008 Windy City Comic Con.
HOUSTON: Mike has said that he sort of went around the Devil’s Due office asking people like Sam Wells to do a podcast before he got to Crank. Were you one of those people? SEELEY: I don’t remember that. Crank was always the technology enthusiast of the guys that I’ve worked with, so I can’t imagine him asking anyone but Crank. I can’t remember if that’s true or not or if Mike’s full of it. I think it was always Crank because they always shared their little tech geek love in their desks, which were right next to each other. They’ll probably tell you that, technologically speaking, I’m a little bit “special” in that area. I’m terrible at it. I touch computers and they fall apart. I buy any kind of technology thing and I don’t know how to work it. They keep putting me on because I talk dirty and tell horrible jokes about myself. I’m not the tech guy that shares the love of it.
Tim’s cover art for Death by Sequel, the second trade paperback for his creatorowned Hack/Slash series. Inks by Jeremy Freeman. Courtesy Kevin Southwell. Hack/Slash TM and © copyright 2009 Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli.
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