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Jake Parker is a talented artist friend of ours with a new children's book out. It's called Missile Mouse: The Star Crusher, it's pubbed by Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Books, and we dig it thoroughly. He kindly sent us a copy to preview before our interview with him and it's full of high adventure, sci-fi fun and life lessons.
And even though it's a kid's book, Jake doesn't skimp at all on things like cool tech and alien character designs. The look and feel of Missile's world is pretty funky.
We ran Parker down at his home in Connecticut and talked to him about The Star Crusher project, his background as an animator with Blue Sky Studios, his work on the film Horton Hears a Who and the whole thing. It was good stuff!
Check Jake out at his site and blog below.
And we make no apologies for the pic of Jake and his Spartan friend raging (ha). **For this episode, we played Ramblin' Man by Lemon Jelly, an excellent tune, folks.
Fantastic interview! Mr. Parker seemed like a very cool fellow and was great to hear his story and peruse his blog and see that variance between character design, sketching, environments, mech concepts etc.
I stumbled across SidebarNation a month or two ago and have really been burning through the podcasts. You guys have really built a strong library and I love the variance in everything from the pure comic guys to folks like Peter de'Seve and Sterling Hundley. The Alex Toth podcasts were crazy well done as well.
Keep up the great work - this is my new daily inspiration.
-pa
(Swain re: Thanks for the kind words, Paul, and for checking us out. Glad you stumbled!
Jake is an awesome artist and so are Peter and Sterling. We had fun with 'em all.)
Posted by: Paul Antonson | January 22, 2010 at 02:21 PM