Reporting from Mighty Con – St. Louis: Interview Highlights with Tom Nguyen, Bishop Stevens, and Tom Cook

Black Nerd Problems had the fortune of attending Mighty Con – St. Louis. While there, we sat down with some of the visiting guests and peeked into different parts of the industry. Below are highlights from the interviews, trimmed for length. It was a blast to sit down with each of these talented artists. Tom Nguyen – Virtuoso of Visual Artistry Tom Nguyen has done covers, colors, and pens for DC, Marvel, IDW, and a bunch of other publishers besides. A Vietnamese-American visual artist, he’s the co-creator of the successful Kickstarter hit comic book The Switch.

BNP: You have a pretty diverse portfolio and visual artistry. You’ve done stuff with the Big Two. You’ve done small publishing housing, even photography. What’s it like having such a wide cross-section of media in your portfolio? Nguyen: Oh, I think it’s one that keeps me busy and productive and out of trouble. You know there are a lot worse things to do, hobbies to have. And I think it’s great. And I think that by showing some versatility in what I do, it makes me in a sense more employable. BNP:You have a relatively new comic out: The Switch, about a villainess who, pardon the pun, switches side and becomes a hero? What was it like helping create a new superhero? Nguyen: It was such a blur because it was OK from my perspective. I mean, we kind of rushed it out. First of all, this is mostly Keith Champagne, my partner and the writer. He’s also a fellow DC creator. This was his idea. I created it in the sense that I d…