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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">Taking 

                        Aim at Paul Steed '99</font></i></font></b><br>
                      
                      <div align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">By 
                        <a href="mailto:radpipe@loonygames.com">Russell Lauzon</a></font></div>
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 5&nbsp; <br>
                      December 6, 1999&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>That 
                happens I guess. Some of us try really hard to get into computer 
                games.</b></font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I didn&#146;t 
                know people got paid to do this.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There 
                you go. Tell me about some of the comic book artists you really 
                liked when you were young.</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I started 
                collecting comics in &acute;79 or &acute;78, and I did it for 
                the collecting aspect of it, because I had like 100 issue run 
                of Incredible Hulk. So I would go to flea markets and try and 
                find these things. This one kid on my bus one time, said, &#145;hey 
                I got this box of comics I&#146;ll sell you&#146;, because I always 
                talked about comics and I was cool and I wanted to be a comic 
                book artist, so I go &#145;really&#146; and I&#146;m looking through 
                it and he had X-Men #94, and all these early X-Men issues that 
                were worth a lot of money, so I bought that. Then I started looking 
                at guys like John Burns. But early on, my favorite artists were 
                John Byrne, Michael Golden. I like John Buscema, I like Barry 
                Windsor Smith. And then I picked up one of the early Frank Miller 
                Daredevils, and I was just completely enraptured by Frank Miller&#146;s 
                work. There was something just so dead-on. Something about that 
                work that just grabbed me. And I&#146;ve been a Frank Miller fan 
                ever since and my comic art kind of reflects it. </font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah 
                he does good stuff. He worked on Spiderman, Ronin, Dark Knight...</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah his 
                first work for Marvel was Spiderman, then he did a couple annuals 
                with Dr. Strange. But then he kind of hacked out with city stuff. 
                I like the high-contrast black and white stuff, you know the Ronin 
                stuff was cool, the Dark Knight stuff, but my favorite thing of 
                his was &#147;Electra Lives&#148;. It was a one shot graphic novel. 
                And he did it with his girlfriend Lynn Varley. She&#146;s a colorist 
                and a real good artist. With the two of them together, and they 
                did amazing work. That was kind of like the quintessential Frank 
                Miller because that was when he made the transition from the traditional 
                comic style to more of the Japanese &#150; well he did it in Ronin, 
                but here he made the whole Japanese style of dividing a page into 
                grids and doing sequential art in the grid. He perfected that 
                whole thing with Electra Lives. It&#146;s a really good book. 
                You should get it and read it.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Maybe 
                you can lend it to me sometime.</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I&#146;ll 
                send it in the mail tomorrow.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In 
                your sketchbook, what comic book character do you draw the most?</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I stopped 
                drawing so much. When I did draw, it was mainly guys like Daredevil, 
                or mostly [other characters] Frank Miller had done, I guess.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">One 
                of the sketches that really struck me is a picture of Wilson Fisk.</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wilson 
                Fisk yes, from Daredevil.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>It 
                struck me as a really cool picture, because he&#146;s got the 
                cigar and he has smoke curling around his face. Which made me 
                think, would you take a comic book character and draw him completely 
                originally, or were you mostly into recapturing something you 
                see?</b></font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well in 
                that particular instance, I was copying Miller. But what I would 
                do too, is I&#146;d study stuff like that and then go and do, 
                &#145;What would it look like from the other side?&#146; So it 
                was more, I really tried to understand a process. I mean I was 
                so into Miller&#146;s work. And I was like, &#145;how does he 
                arrive at this conclusion with this panel arrangement and this 
                particular composition?&#146; You know I&#146;ve never taken any 
                art classes, which kind of sucks because I have to learn as I 
                go about color theory and everything else like that. So that&#146;s 
                why a lot of my early stuff is black and white because I just 
                didn&#146;t know about color.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You 
                know I bet a lot of people are like that.</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh yeah. 
                I mean, the thing is, look at people who are good at what they 
                do. A lot of them are self-taught because they&#146;re really 
                motivated. Me, I got really bored of college pretty fast, because 
                nobody took me seriously. It was just a bunch of losers out there. 
                They would look at me like, &#145;what are you crazy? You&#146;re 
                trying.&#146; So it just turned me off of the whole learning thing. 
                </font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I&#146;m 
                looking at another sketch you did here, and it&#146;s called, 
                &#147;Tanya Kidnapped&#148;. And I think of all the pictures that 
                you sent me, that one struck me the most. If there&#146;s a picture 
                worth a thousand words, than there&#146;s ten thousand coming 
                out of this. What was that done for?</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Okay. 
                Back in &#146;94, I was Project Director at Origin, and they knew 
                I was going to quit and they said, &#145;look, what&#146;s it 
                going to take to keep you here?&#146; And I said, &#145;get me 
                my own project, and I&#146;ll stay. I want a team of people to 
                do a project like I think it should be done.&#146; And they go, 
                &#145;okay.&#146; So they gave me a bunch of guys. So basically 
                I sat down, and I closed the door to my office and I go, alright, 
                I&#146;m going to write down all the things off the top of my 
                head that I like: I like motorcycles; I like rock and roll; I 
                like women; I like violence; I like science fiction. So I took 
                all that and rolled it into this game I called Cyclone Alley. 
                Which basically was a racing game like Road Rash, except you&#146;re 
                on these Hover Bikes and you can do 360 loops inside these tubes 
                and you&#146;re in this space station in outer space. That was 
                the general premise. It&#146;s a good storyline where you&#146;re 
                this hero. One of the stories was, you were racing and you&#146;re 
                doing really good, and the whole time you get these emails or 
                voice mails, which is how the game system runs, and some of them 
                are cutscenes, and one of them was your girlfriend saying, &#147;hey 
                meet me here.&#148; Lo and behold you finish the race and you 
                get to this place and she&#146;s been kidnapped and these guys 
                are pressuring you to race for them, or throw some races or fix 
                some races or whatever. They&#146;re mafia in space. So that was 
                Guido. Guido kidnaps Tanya, and if you win the race, well there 
                was a whole intricate story. What I wanted to convey was Guido 
                was just this sleazy guy and you need to save her.</font></p>
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<p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Credits: Illustration 
  &copy; 1999 Kenneth Scott. This interview is &copy; 1999 Russell Lauzon &amp; 
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