66 - Conversation with Erik Larsen

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4.6 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2005

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

He came to everyone's attention drawing Amazing Spider-Man. He moved on to be a founding member of Image Comics. Now he's the guy in charge as Publisher. He's Erik Larsen. Just recently he wrote an open letter to the comics industry challenging creators to be just that, creative. In a jovial interview with the man behind Savage Dragon, we learn his history and his explanation of the controversial letter. Join us, and find out where he's really coming from. (1:34:30)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Geek Speak, episode 66.
0:15.4	Welcome to Comic Geek Speak, brought to you in conjunction with world famous comics.com.
0:20.6	I'm Brian Deamer. I'm Kevin Moyer. I'm St. Kelly. world famouscomcom. I'm Brian Deemer.
0:21.7	I'm Kevin Moyer.
0:22.7	I'm Shane Kelly.
0:23.7	I'm Jamie D.
0:24.8	I'm Peter Rios.
0:26.5	We are sexy bitches, yeah.
0:30.6	Welcome to the show.
0:33.8	Peter.
0:35.2	You did all the homework on this one, so you want to tell people what's coming?
0:39.3	Well, today we bring you an interview with publisher of Image Comics, Eric Larson. We already
0:46.0	recorded the interview. So what I'm going to do real quick is about a week and a half ago.
0:51.0	He has an article at ComicBook Resources.com called OneFans Opinion.
0:57.1	And he put out an open letter
0:58.5	that pretty much set the, you know,
1:01.7	a few people on fire.
1:03.1	So I'm just going to read part of it
1:04.5	so you know what we're talking about in the interview.
1:07.3	All right.
1:07.6	It says an open letter to comic book creators everywhere.
1:10.7	Is that... Oh, by the way, I should say there is some language in here, so cover yours.
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