Live Chat Here Monday, June 20th With JayJay

[turbod16]

WHO are your favorite artists outside of comics ?
Any medium.

[vikingspawn]

How often will Jim's blog be updated? Will he get into covering his DarkHorse run?

Are there any film/tv comic based properties you would be interested in working on? Or franchises?

Any interest from IDW/Boom for a potential comic imprint with Jim and the old crew?

[jmatt]

Erotica is not porn. It's adult reading and she has written some and it's on Amazon.

Or...is it an inside joke?

Fifty shades of Gray. And a little blue. And orange over there. And a vibrant purple.

[JayJayJackson]

Did Lorne Michaels ever visit the Broadway offices or develope/request any comic ideas there? Was he a big comic fan?

I remember one of the Marvel Team-Up (#74?) issues spotlighted the whole SNL cast from the JohnBelushi/GildaRadner era years. Lorne sounds like he might have been comic book fan. Wondering how deep of a comic fan.

Were he and Jim friends because of that old Marvel Team up comic?

We worked with Eric Ellenbogan at Broadway and had very limited contact with Lorne. I can only remember meeting him once in the office, but Jim may have met him more than that. He was not around much. I don't know if he was a comics fan or not.

[Ladakh]

Last call for questions.

[JayJayJackson]

Hi JJ. Thanks for stopping by. Do you have a personal favorite Valiant issue?

I still have to go with Solar 0. I love me some BWS.

[JayJayJackson]

You obviously have a strong relationship with the original Valiant (especially with Jim Shooter), but have you connected at all the with new guys running the boat?

Not really. I knew Dinesh before and I put him in touch with the folks who they acquired the properties from, but I don't have any contact with them beyond a couple of small things like an intro I wrote.

[iggy101us]

Hi JJ. Thanks for stopping by. Do you have a personal favorite Valiant issue?

I still have to go with Solar 0. I love me some BWS.

+1

These are your colors over BWS. Some of my favorite OA pages.

Solar #0 page 3. Pencilled by Barry Windsor-Smith, inked by Bob Layton, and colored by Janet Jackson. Signed by Janet Jackson and Bob Layton.



Solar #0 page 15. Pencilled by Barry Windsor-Smith, inked by Bob Layton, and colored by Janet Jackson. Signed by Janet Jackson, Bob Layton, and Jim Shooter.



Solar #0 page 22. Pencilled by Barry Windsor-Smith, inked by Bob Layton, and colored by Janet Jackson. Signed by Janet Jackson and Bob Layton.



Solar #0 page 25. Pencilled by Barry Windsor-Smith, inked by Bob Layton, and colored by Janet Jackson. Signed by Bob Layton.

[JayJayJackson]

WHO are your favorite artists outside of comics ?
Any medium.

OMG. So Many. I could never list them all. N C Wyeth, Bernie Wrightson, Coop, Toulouse Lautrec...I'm blanking now. lol

[jmatt]

Mrs. Lumpfluff. Haven't seen her in a while.

[JayJayJackson]

How often will Jim's blog be updated? Will he get into covering his DarkHorse run?

Are there any film/tv comic based properties you would be interested in working on? Or franchises?

Any interest from IDW/Boom for a potential comic imprint with Jim and the old crew?

Jim doesn't have plans for the blog right now as far as I know. Sorry. I'm disappointed too.

I'm seriously hoping to create a franchise of my own.

I haven't heard any news about comics work, but I haven't spoken with jim about it lately.

[Ladakh]

This wraps up the Jay Jay Interview... the first of what I hope to be many interviews with other Valiant-stock or maybe just us!

Once again, everyone who contributed is in for a Jay Jay auto (unless you're already automatically in for one from the JS Project).

Jay Jay- thank you so much for your time!!!

[jmatt]

I'm seriously hoping to create a franchise of my own.

Hmm. Any details you can divulge?

[jmatt]

Wait! Mine was right at the buzzer!

Thank you Jay Jay!

[JayJayJackson]

Erotica is not porn. It's adult reading and she has written some and it's on Amazon.

Or...is it an inside joke?

Fifty shades of Gray. And a little blue. And orange over there. And a vibrant purple.

No erotica isn't porn, except sometimes the way I write it. lol. But seriously, I'm working on a few novellas and short stories under the pen name Victoria Kinkade and I'm planning to self publish them this fall (hopefully). I have some done, but I made the decision to publish several together at the same time and try to do a big marketing push to get myself noticed. I hope. Thje erotica I write actually spans a wide range of "spicy" from rather pornographic shorts to longer, more romantic novellas. I write horror under my own name and used a pen name for the romance and erotica because I don't think the 2 genres have a similar audience. I like both, but I'm not sure other people do.

[JayJayJackson]

I'm seriously hoping to create a franchise of my own.

Hmm. Any details you can divulge?

I have a horror novel I'm working on and I feel like it may have movie potential.

[jmatt]

I'm seriously hoping to create a franchise of my own.

Hmm. Any details you can divulge?

I have a horror novel I'm working on and I feel like it may have movie potential.

Good luck with it!

Ever considered Horror Erotica? Now that'd break some barriers.

[Watchtower]

I'm seriously hoping to create a franchise of my own.

Hmm. Any details you can divulge?

I have a horror novel I'm working on and I feel like it may have movie potential.

Good luck with it!

Ever considered Horror Erotica? Now that'd break some barriers.

Eh, not going far enough.

[Ladakh]

Just hung up with Jay Jay who said it was a productive chat... but she knows all of you already!

I am working on Bob Almond to chat with us next as Sal Velluto is recovering from cancer surgery, as reported (and told to me second hand) from Bo Blayton's site.

I have other people in mind too... should I keep doing this, guys?

[iggy101us]

Thanks again JayJay. Also thanks Joe and jmatt for organization.

Other people? David Lapham but I know he's super busy and hard to reach. If you want to really hit it out of the park, how about BWS?

[turbod16]

Thanks everyone !

[Ladakh]

I actually emailed... or CHALLENGED Barry to do a chat with a room full of diehard fans. Barry usually does not reply to me but I try anyway.

[jmatt]

Thanks again JayJay. Also thanks Joe and jmatt for organization.

This was all Joe.

[buff-beardo]

Thank you Jay Jay for your time! Thank you Joe for organizing it!

[grendeljd]

Crap, sorry I'm missed this! Fell right on the same time slot as having to record the latest OTV:VCR episode.