A Conversation with the Creators of The Space Odditorium

This past weekend at Silicon Valley Comic-Con in San Jose, I sat down with the creators of The Space Odditorium, a twisted, wacky whirlwind of a book that’s as funny as it is nice to look at. Morgan: Describe your individual backgrounds, and how you met each other. Chris: In my early 20’s, that’s when I started studying film. I got into film theory and then film production. Went to De Anza College out here in the Bay Area. Then I went to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. From there I started to branch off into more writing. After graduating, I did some music videos and some film production kind of stuff. Then I got more into the writing game of music video treatments for directors, then writing short pieces for directors and a production company, and then working on featured scripts when I was accepted to UCLA. I moved down to Los Angeles and continued to work on writing featured scripts for a long while and probably ended up doing that for about 5, 6 years until Dave called me up and wanted to get started on a comic book. And during that whole time I had been reading comics and always had an interest in writing comics but it was just, I didn’t have an artist to work with. There were a couple failed attempts in which I tried to recruit an artist on a comic book but it was just very short-lived. M: It’s really difficult being someone who just writes, to find a good partner to work with. C: Yeah, because it’s so much work, I mean it’s a commitment. And you have to…