136: Bringing Watership Down to Life

Stories Are Soul Food

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Were you, like Nate and Brian, somewhat scarred by Watership Down -- and loved it because of that fact? Stories Are Soul Food welcomes on Joe Sutphin, the illustrator whose stellar pen & ink drawings you might recognize from Little Pilgrim's Progress, Word of Mouse, and the Wingfeather Saga. Joe's neverending project for the past five years, though, has been a full-length graphic novel adaptation of Watership Down, Richard Adams' fantastic rabbit epic. With Watership Down, Joe went crazy with all the colors of the English downs -- and turns out, that's a lot of green, plus a gazillion gnats (and a huge team to help him). The guys discuss what makes Watership Down a classic, what Joe is doing next, how to avoid burnout as an illustrator, and much more. Plus, a special offer: If you want to order a copy of Watership Down for Christmas, you can now get an exclusive limited SASF edition: Each copy ordered from Canon Press will come with an exclusive Stories Are Soul Food bookplate signed by the illustrator himself. Limited to 200 only, so order now. https://canonpress.com/products/water...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Stories Our Soul Food podcast, presented by Cannonball Books, the kids' fiction imprint of Canon Press.
0:07.9	Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell.
0:11.8	Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell.
0:15.0	Made a ghost of a king on a road.
0:17.2	Welcome. Welcome to Sasp, our perfect acronym.
0:21.3	Stories are our soul food.
0:23.9	Everybody meet Joe Sutton.
0:27.3	You've done many, many things.
0:29.5	So there's many things.
0:31.4	Google the guy, figure out his full bio.
0:33.5	But most recently, this beast, this is a big book yeah and wow all color too it's big it's
0:42.3	incredible stuff oh i knew it was a task when my copy arrived i was so very surprised and i you know
0:50.6	i follow you on instagram and i've seen the process and and, I can't remember how many rabbits you said you had drawn through.
0:59.6	How do you know?
1:00.7	Yeah.
1:00.9	I mean, I think I just keep thinking like, we're like roughly 370 pages and then, you know, anywhere from like six to nine panels a page and uh between one and a dozen rabbits per
1:13.9	panel so yeah it's you know tens of thousands tens of thousands of rabbits do you draw rabbits in
1:21.3	your sleep no that you know the funny thing is i i am asked that nearly every time someone talks to me.
1:28.7	And my answer is I actually never, to my knowledge, I cannot remember ever having art as a part of my dreams.
1:37.0	And I'm leaving it that way.
1:39.0	Last night someone asked me.
1:41.2	That's a big statement.
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