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Interview Part 1
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Interview by
Richmond Clements
With Judge Dredd
Metro strips now being reprinted in the Megazine, it seems like the perfect time
for us to find out a little more about the two artists involved. We asked penciller
Inaki Miranda, and colourist Eva De La Cruz, all about their work on Dredd, both
in the Metro and 2000AD, as well as their forthcoming self created projects, The
Chase and NY Rascals.
How long have
you been drawing comics?
Inaki
I was born in Argentina, and my parents had a cloth store there. I was thirteen
and there was this local weekly newspaper where they wanted to post an advert
for the store. My father went to the paper and made a deal with them. The deal
was that they would post the advert of his store and in return I was going to
work doing a comic strip for the paper. So this is how I had my first publishing
opportunity! The strip was titled “Futurito” and it run for one year.
From that moment I knew I wanted to work in comics. The problem is that I didn’t
think it was going to be so hard to achieve! So I have been drawing comics ever
since.
Years later I
moved to Spain with my family and started to send samples to Marvel, DC, Dark
Horse and Image waiting for a miracle to occur. But now I take a look at those
drawings and I think that even a miracle wouldn't have been enough! Then I met
Eva in College and we decided to team up.
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Then there came
a moment when I thought.. "Now I’m ready! I'm as good as the pros!
They have to give me a commission now!" I read somewhere in some interview
that when you think that you are ready to break-in it means you're "NOT READY
AT ALL". And that was my case. The thing is that Eva and I took a plane to
New York and visited the offices of Marvel and DC looking for a commission. Now
it was not only me waiting for a miracle to occur, but it was the two of us waiting
for it. And this time we were not only waiting for it, we were almost demanding
it! So we did the worst thing you can do: argue with the editors! Our only excuse
was that we believed in our potential and that turned us blind. I mean, our portfolio
was terrible and our work not publishable at all, but we couldn't see that. They
were very polite with us though and we thank them for that. Well, let’s
keep going…
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Zammy
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In 2000 we decided
to self publish a full colour three issue miniseries named "Dorq" .
Financially it was a failure because of the distribution, but as a learning experience
was invaluable. We learned how everything needed to be done, from making the comic
to getting it printed and distributed. That work was like a semi-professional
playground for us and I think it allowed us to grow more experienced in our art.
And finally came
my first commission thanks to Matt Smith: the Judge Dredd “See Zammy Run”
story for 2000AD. Before receiving this first commission, we had been working
in the animation and videogames industry.
Eva
My interest in comics started when I met Inaki in the University, when we
were studying Fine Arts. One day he brought some Spiderman drawings and I was
captivated by them. They made me turn my attention toward the comics medium. Another
day he showed me a comic of Spawn (it was an issue drawn by Marc Silvestri and
coloured by Brian Haberlin). The colour just blew me away. Up to that moment I
never paid too much attention to the colour of comics, but that colour work was
something new for me. Well, the thing is that Inaki was looking for someone to
ink and colour his drawings and I jumped on board. From here on, same as above!
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