Bonus Interview with Donny Cates

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Holden is joined by writer Donny Cates and they discuss how he got into comics, finding success through failure and how to help artists and comic book stores during the Coronavirus. Support your local comic book scene! Find local stores and more at 28PagesLater.com Follow #Creators4Comics to help out artists!

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0:00.0	Uh, where to begin?
0:17.7	Marvel.
0:20.2	Venom. Rednecks. Ghost Rider? No. Marvel. Venom.
0:21.6	Rednecks.
0:23.2	Ghost Rider?
0:24.2	No.
0:25.1	Kind of.
0:25.7	A little bit.
0:26.9	Not actually like a ghostwriter.
0:28.0	Oh, cosmic ghostwriter.
0:30.1	Yeah.
0:30.4	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:30.9	Sure.
0:31.7	Cosmic Ghost Rider.
0:32.8	I guess I'm just really wanting to angle in that like,
0:35.9	that you're doing venom and like i was a kid
0:38.8	of the 90s that loved reading venom spawn and ghost writer a lot so i was kind of excited to talk
0:45.9	to you about that ladies and gentlemen donnie kate's uh fantastic comic book writer uh amazing um what is your specific title because i'm a shithead
0:57.2	what is it well i'm a i'm an exclusive writer at marvel comics um okay um there's about
1:05.3	you know marvel hires you know you know anywhere from 50 to however many, like 80 writers. There's 12 of us who are
1:14.2	the Illuminati, if you will, who are exclusive guys. We're the guys who get into the summits
1:21.4	and the rooms and decide how to ruin all your favorite characters. I also, even though I am an exclusive writer at Marvel, I have built in things into my contract.
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