Let me start by saying Dwight and I have friends, we have buddies and we have acquaintances in this here industry. But there are some people who, over the last year, have become much more like family to us. Mr. Skottie Young is one of them.
And he's not just family, we're also big fans of the guy's work too. He's an incredible artist with an edgy and raw style, and he wraps it up nicely in this great design sense. Allow me to steal a quote about him that I read on-line once. The blogger said "Skottie's work, like that of Katie Cook's, impresses me because of the obvious fun that he has while drawing. It's in everything he does". I tend to agree. I don't get the feeling he labors over his artwork like so much "render porn", but instead, tries to have a good time with it. Go look at his run on New X-Men or any of his covers—you'll see it.
And quite honestly, I thought dude's covers were crazy good before I even knew who he was. Being a fan of other podcasts, when he joined my beloved Around Comics as a regular, I was like "Who the..?" Then I checked out his site and was like "Oh." Then when I saw he was responsible for the Cable & Deadpool covers I'd been secretly digging, I was like "Oh, damn!"
We met Skottie exactly a year ago at the Heroes Convention in Charlotte, NC. We gave him a business card on a humbug, told him how much we liked AC and asked him to check out our podcast. He was polite and gracious enough, and that was that. After the Con, I emailed him and asked him again to listen in when he had time—he finally did. Since then, he's sent us a dozen or so very nice notes about our show, telling us how much he likes it and offering his help in any way. There's usually cursing involved too, but we got used to that...
Oh yeah, and he told everybody he knew to check us out! We got more emails and comments than a little bit from people who said Skottie Young told them about SiDEBAR. And that crossed the line for Dwight and I. We couldn't go back to just friends or acquaintances or even fellow podcasters with the guy at that point. For us, it's been family and brothers ever since—and that's the way we'll keep it.
**This is only Part I with Skottie 2 Hottie, and for it, we played a snippet of Public Enemy's Brothers Gonna Work It Out.
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Ha ha ha..COME ON!! part 2
Posted by: Mark | June 08, 2008 at 01:53 PM
I loved this episode, and not just because it's Skottie. Shit, I remember when Skottie was just Message-Board-Famous on Digital Webbing and Penciljack, but he definitely paid his dues with New Warriors and New X-Men. (His shit's All-New!) Anyway, bumping that track from Fear of a Black Planet. Hell's yeah. But you had to go saying something about Radiohead at the end, right? Oh, you break my heart. At least you can listen to them, unlike the stuff you're inundated with in the mainstream. Don't care, the songwriting and composition is great, and the new album is fucking spectacular. Kind of back to their roots, even though I've loved Kid A since I just had a bootlegged tape of it that they played on the local Radio Station at midnight the day it was released. Man, I taped it and had to switch the tape over right quick as it cut off in the middle of a song. I wore that tape out, as I was too piss poor to afford the CD. Oh and hip hop, turn off the radio and get some Blackalicious or Mos Def, or hell my boy Free Speech has some DYNAMITE shit on www.ourteamisfresh.com. Ro. Blvd. ,Free Speech, Talk Sikk, Stereo Type, Breakfast Club, all that shit. Check out the site download it. I did a gig poster, and cover for them but it ended up being too raw. Shit, I'm rambling.
Oh, Got a gig for a four issue mini-series. It's through Digital Webbing Press, but it's going up on Wowio and then being traded. I'm juggling that with my personal shit as well, so it's busy busy, but I did check out that Greene episode. That Meth cover is tight as hell.
Peace,
3!LL
Posted by: William Blankenship | June 08, 2008 at 04:50 PM
Dudes this was a great episode but then again I'm always a fan of podcasts with Skottie on it. He's a funny guy. You guys almost blew my earbuds out though when Swain went all crazy at the mention of the old school Iron Man. You guys got nuts!
Keep up the great work.
Posted by: RLS | July 03, 2008 at 06:31 AM
what a great discussion with Scottie Young.
it was so much fun to listen you guys just yuck it up and have a great time. I found myself smiling along with you all like I was part of the conversation which is really nice when you are home alone working away on your own illustrations.
thanks for another great episode.
you guys rock.
Posted by: Frank Kenndy | August 15, 2009 at 08:18 AM