Ep 019 : Hugh Fleming & Jamie McCarney – CLASSIC CLIP - A Star Wars comic artist & his Star Wars loving comedian friend
Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast
Steele Saunders
4.5 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2014
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Hugh Fleming is a Star Wars artist who's credits include the Dark Horse Comic covers for Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace, Splinter Of The Mind's Eye and Tales Of The Jedi along with the iconic “Star Wars Rocks” artwork for the Star Wars Insider. His friend Jamie McCarney is a hilariously outrageous comedian who just happens to be mutual pals with Steele.
In an epic chat we talk about Hugh's journey to becoming a Star Wars artist and spending a week sleeping on Hollywood Blvd waiting for Episode 1 and Jamie drops Star Wars casting bombshell that can't be missed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Steel Wars. I am comedian Steel Saunders and I do love Star Wars. Please enjoy this |
| 0:08.7 | classic clip which is available in full at patreon.com forward slash steel wars. |
| 0:20.2 | A quick warning in this clip there there is some occasional course language, |
| 0:24.4 | so if you are around sensitive ears or are easily offended, |
| 0:28.2 | move along to another Steel Wars episode. |
| 0:30.4 | This is not the podcast you are looking for. |
| 0:36.3 | Splinter of the Mind's Eye was a book that I devoured as a kid. |
| 0:41.7 | Any, any Star Wars at all was exciting. |
| 0:44.4 | Even the holiday special when that was on TV, that was exciting. |
| 0:46.9 | We should have any kind of Star Wars at all. |
| 0:48.7 | It's a desperate we were for anything related to Star Wars. |
| 0:52.0 | So to get to do covers for the comic book was just amazing. |
| 0:57.1 | It was a thrill. |
| 0:58.8 | Because the only other person that had illustrated, painted Splinter of the Minds Eye artwork. |
| 1:03.5 | Before that was Ralph McQuarrie with the original novel cover. |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.1 | So it was. |
| 1:08.6 | It was definitely thrilling. |
| 1:09.8 | It was very exciting. |
| 1:11.0 | Speaking of that, you'd been on, was it episode two set? |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah. |
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