Here is yet another older interview I did some years back that appeared on another web page with which I am no longer associated. It has been my intention to bring that older work here, and with this interview I have just one more article to bring over. anyway, here we go...
This is part two of a two-part interview with Guy Dorian, Sr. the First half can be found here:
Guy Dorian,
Sr. is something of a Renaissance-level artist, he can draw, paint, watercolor,
sculpt, build, write, and dance (he can’t sing). His his first comicbook work published
at Marvel in New Warriors #48 (1994). Some of
his other comic work has included UltraForce, Hari Kari, Bad Girls, Hakkiro Soul
Quest, and many others. Not just making an impression on the comics themselves,
Guy has worked on many trading card sets for both Marvel and DC Comics.
In addition
to all of his comicbook work, Guy has built up his portfolio in a variety of different
art fields, such as toy designs (for WWF/WWE), trading cards, coloring books, magazines,
stickers, billboards, newspaper comic strip ads, and more, the list goes on and
on. Beyond his artwork, Guy is also a sought-after lecturer, focusing on fine art
as well on professional comicbook art. Currently he is working with the Jack Kirby Museum and Research
Center on big projects, as well as character development for Marvel Comics Avengers
Assemble, and a self-published comic entitled COR (discussed here), that he is working
on with his son (Guy Dorian, Jr.) and others.
RJS: Tell me about your new project, COR.
GD, Sr: Well, COR
is a project by myself and a company called PKMM Entertainment. I can
tell you this character COR is something I’ve always wanted to do. He has
the intelligence of the entire internet and intelligence of all those who are connected
to the internet at his beck and call. He has translucent skin on parts of his body,
that shows the red glow of his veins system. He’s a character who is flawed by his
own birth, and by his own species to which he is the sole heir. This all occurs
with the help of a woman he meets by the name of Anat.
He goes
on a journey to ultimately discover where he came from, who he is, and why he is
here. The book is written by the very capable and talented independent screen-writer,
Guy Dorian Jr. (my son), illustrated by myself and inked by the phenomenal Bob Wiacek.
Some of my good friends and fantastically talented icons of the comic industry are
on board for collaboration on stories, pages, and covers of this great series. Some
of those artists that I have the pleasure of working with are Sal Buscema (who took
over as Guy’s inker for the rest of the entire series as well as on the other books
on which Guy is working), Herb Trimpe (the zero issue has an article about Herb
Trimpe and features one of the last illustrations Trimpe ever did), Paul Gulacy,
Michael Golden, Rich Buckler, Larry Hama, Louise Simonson, Joe Sinnott, Neal Adams,
as well as Janice Chiang on letters. And I can’t forget my son’s writing partner,
Cody Ciezlekowski.
All of this
is brought to you by the visionary named Matthew Pallotta. He is the executive vice-president
of PKMM, and the executive editor and vice-president of PKMM Entertainment. Matthew
is a visionary, and an incredible talent in the industry of electronics and soon
to be of entertainment.
RJS: What
prompted you to create this story?
GD, Sr: Nothing
necessarily prompted me. My brain is always running at a thousand miles per second,
I am always thinking of new intellectual properties, stories, characters, worlds,
products and series. You name it, my brain never stops running, never stops creating,
never stops thinking, never stops taking me somewhere to creation.
RJS: From
what I already know about it, it seems to be a far cry from superhero stuff for
which you are perhaps best known.
RJS: Will
this be a limited run series or do you intend for it to be an ongoing series?
GD, Sr: The story
will be debut as a six-book miniseries, and then turn into its own full ongoing
series.
RJS: Besides
COR, do you have anything else that you have in the works you want to discuss?
GD, Sr: At the
moment this book is everything, but I do have another major project I’m working
on. That project is a sculpture of none other than Jack “King” Kirby, the greatest
comicbook artist who ever lived. It will be a life-size sculpture and monument dedicated
to his memory for his fans from all around the world. I have been involved with
the Kirby Museum for quite
some time now. In discussing, and going over this project a development that has
come out of it is that I will be a guest speaker, doing a lecture and physically
drawing about Jack Kirby’s art…why he drew what he drew…and that was true from the
time he was an early professional all the way through to his greatest successes.
RJS: I noticed that Ian is also working on a new project and both of your projects are being pitched on the same website. Are you guys going to be self-publishing them together?
GD, Sr: My brother’s
project is called Law of Resistance or Resistance. It is a story that
was created by my brother, Ian and Jim Krueger. Our development of COR, was an influence
on the creation of Ian and Jim’s character. Matthew Pallotta played his part, which
was then developed by Ian and Jimmy and ultimately scripted by Jimmy. My project
is called COR – Controlled Organic Robotics. I created the initial character from
my son’s descriptions and writer became co-creator with me working and developing
the story. He also has a partner who was involved in the writing and his name is
Cody Ciezlekowski. The energy of creating this project is my favorite part of character
creation, and I am very happy to be now working on the issues.
RJS: What
other kinds of things do you think you’d like to do going forward?
These novels
which are first going to be a six-book series, and then a graphic novel and it will
be continued as series of novels is all being brought together by the amazingly
intelligent and charismatic mind of Matthew Pallotta. Matthew and PKMM put together
this group of phenomenal talents in the comics industry to create PKMM Entertainment.
Much like Steve Jobs, he has been involved in working with advanced technology solutions,
and computers for many years. In his job, he has worked for the federal government
for his entire life, creating and developing software solutions and his intellect
has been so broad-based. He’s created so many things in that space, that he just
could not be contained. He loves the comic industry, he loves the movie and game
industries, he loves science fiction, fantasy, superheroes… you name it! He’s putting
everything out there to make sure that this new company, PKMM entertainment
is a viable working entertainment company that does things right, by using all the
greatest talent that he can find on the planet.
I almost forgot to mention my brother is working on his project with anchors such as Bill Sienkiewicz, Mark Texiera, Joe Weems, Matt “Batt” Banning, and many other extremely talented big wigs in the business. On my book, COR I have been working on the title in some capacity as anchors and pencil is collaborating with me are John Livesay, Bob Wiacek, Rich Buckler, Joseph Rubenstien, Herb Trimpe, Michael Golden, and the great Sal Buscema, as well as possibly Michael Kaluta, and a few more. And let’s not forget the great Janice Chiang on letters for both books.
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Robert J. Sodaro is a noted comicbook historian and journalist who began reading comics during the early ‘60s while sitting on the newsstand in his Uncle’s grocery store. He has been writing about them in the early ‘80s, and wrote for virtually every print comicbook publication published during the ‘80s & ‘90s. These days, much of his writing can be found here or on HubPages.com.
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