Bryan Lee O’Malley ’s comic Scott Pilgrim was a terrific witching - realist position of early maturity life in a world saturated with videogames . Now O’Malley has finished a new comedian about a eating place in a “ sprite narration variation of reality . ” We have some exclusive panels from Random House .
second comes out from Random House in July 2014 . While you ’re waiting for your dose of O’Malley , here are some undivided panels and a minute more information about what the Holy Scripture will be about . We ca n’t wait .
Here ’s an excerpt froman audience that O’Malley did with Chris Randle for Random Houseabout the young book :
Q : What can you narrate me about Seconds , if anything ?
A : I came up with the worldwide idea for moment right after fill in the first volume of Scott Pilgrim . I worked in a eating place in Toronto for a little while to pay the pecker while writing the 2d volume and planning the rest of the series , and I had a few ideas for this other report , a account about a restaurant . So , Seconds is about a restaurant , and the eatery is called Seconds , and 90 percent of the story take away situation within it . Beyond that it ’s really hard for me to explain and I ’m going to have to influence on that so I can talk about it decent when it comes out . But it ’s rummy and weird and kind of big and demented despite the mundane setting .
Q : So is Seconds a coming back to the more “ naturalistic ” trend of Lost at Sea [ O’Malley ’s first , pre - Scott - Pilgrim Quran ] , or will there still be otherworldy elements like SP ? Did you do any inquiry on the restaurant industriousness beyond your own experiences ? What ’s the friend like ?
A : masses always need whether the new book will be more like suffer at Sea or Pilgrim . Is this what they mean ? Seconds is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environs , and I did do plenteousness of enquiry , so there ’s that . It carry position in a town that is like a kinder , gentler fairy tale version of realness . Then it take off into a story that is very strange , very genial . So it ’s a picayune of both , I reckon .
The protagonist , Katie , is a lovable spaz , and she ’s in practically every dialog box ; her personality drives the write up in a way that ’s basically identical to my other employment . They ’re all very subjective worlds . But this is a young subject , so it ’s aim its own feeling .
Q : Researching eating place is probably tastier than , say , American labour chronicle . Have you found your panache changing again in drawing it ?
A : Well , on a new book of account , in a unexampled public , it ’s a clean break and I felt like I could fight my art into new place . I can pitch out intrinsic things about the Scott Pilgrim calculate that always pester me over the years , and I can bring dissimilar influence to bear . I consider the Modern book looks pretty dissimilar , but it ’ll still be instantly recognisable as me . The layouts are very different . The characters are not a huge stretch from Scott Pilgrim , but then , they ’re new character .
Q : Which influences do you mean , in this display case ? And how did the preliminary process differ ? Seconds is a ego - hold book , for one matter - did you write a more elaborate script beforehand because of that ?
A : Well , now I can aspire more overtly for like a ’ 70s/’80s manga style , like Rumiko Takahashi or Izumi Matsumoto , which mostly means bigger hair and “ cunning ” form . But since I ’m starting from incision I can also play with European influences and stuff – I ’ve had a crush on Christophe Blain ’s workplace incessantly , and I ’m obsessed with Kerascoet & Hubert ’s Beauté , which I read in French last year .
As a set of melodic theme , Seconds had days to coalesce , but turning an idea into an actual functioning story engine is another matter altogether . I ended up write it into a really detailed outline and composing comic pages right away from that synopsis . This is supposed to keep matter fresher , but I wo n’t really have a go at it if it ’s working until I ’m all done .
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