Does it feel cool to have such a heat about you? Specifically at D.I.N.K!, everyone was talking about you. NG: I find that while I'm walking around and talking to people, your name is one I hear a lot. They pitched the book and Image said yeah, and that’s where we are at. Justin Jordan is a pretty well-established writer with Image and Jacob has also published with them a couple of times, so they both have a pretty good relationship with that publishing company. Do you want to work on it?" It worked like that for both HERE//after and The Family Trade. Then they say, "Hey I have this book idea, I think your art would be great. So just going to shows like this, networking, and working with other people, you just start to meet writers. Yeah one of the great things about comics is that it is a pretty small, close-knit community and everybody’s pretty rad. NG: That sounds awesome! How did you come to work at Image? How did you break in there? It’s kind of a personal and moving book, so I am pretty excited about that one. You follow a character as she explores who she is, dealing with grief and not being ok with the unknown. It has ghosts, but it’s not really a ghost story. I want to say a slice of life comic with supernatural elements to it. It will again go straight to graphic novel format. And then I have another graphic novel coming out from Image with writer Jacob Semahn that was called HERE//after. MB: Yeah, I really actually like creepy fairy tales, they’re sort of like my main jam so… NG: I will be intrigued to see your art in a horror based story. It should be out probably early next year. I don’t know how much I am allowed to tell you about it right now, but it will be horror based and I am pretty excited about that. I have a Webtoons series that is up and coming with writer Ryan Cady that should be pretty fun. Not necessarily ones that are just myself, I'm still working as part of a team. MB: So, I have a lot of things that I am working on. Now aside from The Family Trade do you have any personal books that you are working? MB: Yeah, 5 or 6 issue equivalent probably. MB: Probably about the same as the first one - which was one hundred something pages, one hundred and fifty pages maybe - somewhere around there. What length would you guys be looking at for a GN? I think we are going to do a volume two - but we want to go straight to a graphic novel and not do the single issues. MB: You know, I think we are going to have a meeting here soon to talk about it. NG: Now I know that the Family Trade trade just came out (which is fun to say). It’s written by Justin Jordan and Nikki Ryan and lettered by the wonderful Rachel Deering, so it’s a pretty good book. So I watercolor all over the comics! (laughs) I am the interior and cover artist for the Image book The Family Trade, which is a fantasy/action/adventure book. Morgan Beem: I am a comic artist and illustrator, and I use traditional media. I know that you have been working on The Family Trade, what else can you tell us about yourself? Neil Greenaway: Let’s start off assuming that the readers don’t know anything about you.
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