You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hey, folks, welcome to a special bonus segment of the projection booth.

On our episode about the brood, I spoke to Stephen Passett about his incredible midnight monogram about the brood.

Stephen Passett has also been involved in comics for many, many years, and I had to take the opportunity to talk to him about that.

So I wanted to break that out and put that out as a special bonus.

So enjoy this first part of our interview, and you can hear the rest on our episode,

all about The Brood.

How did you get into the comic book business?

Well, I was always a weird kid and, you know, born in 55 and wanting to be a cartoonist you know growing up in northern

vermont a little dinky town called ducksberry uh was a pretty eccentric thing to aspire to

you know i might as well have told my parents i you know wanted to live 20,000 leagues under

the sea or something i mean it completely made no sense.

But I stuck to it.

And when I was getting toward the end of my high, actually it was after high school graduation.

I graduated in 73.

You know, I was in that kind of rootless phase that most of us in our 20s find ourselves

in.

You know, what do I want to do? What do I want to be? You know, and there was a tragic thing that happened. One of my best friends

committed suicide. And that really pushed me to really decide what I wanted to do. And he had been going, I took a year off between high school and college and my friend had

gone to Boston, to university, to study filmmaking.

And I don't know what happened there and I don't know what precipitated what happened,

but the fact that he had pursued his passion,

he and I had been making, you know, our own amateur underground, 8mm, Super 8 movies all through high school,

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