Jay Potts's guest appearances

Jay Potts

Inkstuds

Odyssey Unleashed Podcast

Anne Ishii

Keith Jones

Gene Luen Yang

Bill Griffith

David King

Jim Rugg

Rob Liefeld

Joe Keatinge

Lucy Knisley

Vera Brosgol

Scott McCloud

Becca Tobin

Chris Ware

Katherine Collins

Thi Bui

OwlTail

He's a bad mother... Shut your mouth... I'm just talking about Pastor. That's right, Isaiah 'Pastor' Hurt the star of 'World of Hurt:' created, plotted, written, drawn, lettered and published by Jay Potts at www.worldofhurtonline.com. Amazing stories from the 'Internet's #1 Blaxploitation Webcomic.' "Sometimes Good People Need A Bad Man. In 1972 Isaiah 'Pastor' Hurt was the baddest Man In The World." We're able to sit down with Jay and talk about the world of Hurt and explore even more of the world of Blaxploitation. Humbled and honored for him to be the first interview we have done. Thank you, Mr. Potts. We delve into Luke Cage's backstory and see what makes the man tick and how Carl Lucas became badass Luke Cage. Next, we sink our fangs into 'Blacula' staring William Marshall, a badass in his own right, and how he was cursed by Dracula to forever be known as Blacula and we don't even spoil the whole thing (there are minor spoilers, but nothing that's not in the trailer). We wrap this up by giving thanks to those who have helped spread the word.  --/--Playing times: --/--Splatoon playing, Fallout 4 trailer watching and Denver Comic Con 2015 roundup - opening  --/--Talk about meeting Mr. Jay Potts and how it happened and 'World Of Hurt' - 16:39 --/--Interview with Mr. Jay Potts - 23:10 --/--Luke Cage Hero For Hire (1972, Marvel Comics) - 42:48 --/--Blacula (1972, American International Pictures) - 55:01 --/--Thank yous - 01:04:25 --/--Jay Potts: www.worldofhurtonline.com and twitter @World_Of_Hurt --/--EHT Comics site: EHTComics.wordpress.com  --/--Twitter: @odysseyunleash  --/--Blog: odysseyunleashed.wordpress.com  --/--email: odyssey-unleahsed@hotmail.com  --/--

He's a bad mother... Shut your mouth... I'm just talking about Pastor. That's right, Isaiah 'Pastor' Hurt the star of 'World of Hurt:' created, plotted, written, drawn, lettered and published by Jay Potts at <a href="http://www.worldofhurtonline.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.worldofhurtonline.com</a>. Amazing stories from the 'Internet's #1 Blaxploitation Webcomic.' "Sometimes Good People Need A Bad Man. In 1972 Isaiah 'Pastor' Hurt was the baddest Man In The World." We're able to sit down with Jay and talk about the world of Hurt and explore even more of the world of Blaxploitation. Humbled and honored for him to be the first interview we have done. Thank you, Mr. Potts. We delve into Luke Cage's backstory and see what makes the man tick and how Carl Lucas became badass Luke Cage. Next, we sink our fangs into 'Blacula' staring William Marshall, a badass in his own right, and how he was cursed by Dracula to forever be known as Blacula and we don't even spoil the whole thing (there are minor spoilers, but nothing that's not in the trailer). We wrap this up by giving thanks to those who have helped spread the word.  --/--Playing times: --/--Splatoon playing, Fallout 4 trailer watching and Denver Comic Con 2015 roundup - opening  --/--Talk about meeting Mr. Jay Potts and how it happened and 'World Of Hurt' - 16:39 --/--Interview with Mr. Jay Potts - 23:10 --/--Luke Cage Hero For Hire (1972, Marvel Comics) - 42:48 --/--Blacula (1972, American International Pictures) - 55:01 --/--Thank yous - 01:04:25 --/--Jay Potts: <a href="http://www.worldofhurtonline.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.worldofhurtonline.com</a> and twitter @World_Of_Hurt --/--EHT Comics site: <a href="http://EHTComics.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EHTComics.wordpress.com</a>  --/--Twitter: @odysseyunleash  --/--Blog: <a href="http://odysseyunleashed.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">odysseyunleashed.wordpress.com</a>  --/--email: odyssey-unleahsed@hotmail.com  --/--

OUP - EP11 - Badasses - DCC Review / Interview with 'World Of Hurt' creator Jay Potts

 Comics as we know it is wide and fractured. There’s Direct Market comics, bookstore comics, webcomics, indie comics, manga, Eurocomics, and several more subcultures. I’m curious about what working under the broad umbrella of “comics” is like for creators, publishers, critics, academics, and more. Over the course of this month, I’m going to interview several people whose work, position, or goals I find interesting and attempt to paint a picture of what “comics” means today. For the month of February, I’m taking over the Inkstuds podcast in order to introduce Inkstuds Spotlight, a focused look at what it means to be in comics. A comprehensive look isn’t my goal. My goal is to show you several different slices of life in comics, as the people I’m interviewing this month play a wide variety of roles in comics. Today, I’m speaking to Jay Potts, a cartoonist working on his new series and navigating how to respect his inspirations while still making his work his own. A bit of context before we begin: Inkstuds is a comics podcast founded and hosted by Robin McConnell. It’s focused largely on indie and underground cartoonists, and now that it’s 500 episodes deep, exists as a great resource for finding out not just more about comics, but about the lives of cartoonists. ComicsAlliance is one of the most important news outlets in comics. I’m biased, having written for CA for a few years, but the staff has a voice and variety of interests that still can’t be matched. With both sites broadcasting Inkstuds Spotlight, I’m hoping we can reach a wide slice of the comics readership. Today I’m talking to Jay Potts, creator of the blaxploitation-themed webcomic World of Hurt and the upcoming tokusatsu-inspired series Atomech. Potts works largely in an adventure comics mode, creating stories where men and women go out and dispense justice or make things happen, and without a publisher. His tales avoid ironic takes on familiar ideas in favor of simply telling a good story that obeys the rules of whichever genre he has chosen to work in. That’s an interesting approach to me, considering how much of the comics industry leans on nostalgia, irony, and deconstruction nowadays, so I spoke with Potts about his influences, consciously processing those influences, and respecting the idiom. 0:00: Potts discusses his entrance to reading comics thanks to seeing his older brother draw comics, the influence on his art styles from artists like John Buscema and José Luis García-López, enjoying Gene Colan’s work on Howard the Duck and Tomb of Dracula, following artists instead of specific comics titles, George Perez, García-Lopez’s short runs on various titles including Cinder &amp; Ashe and Twilight with Howard Chaykin, the iconic nature of García-López’s work, and striving for believability in his own work. 10:00: The importance of consistency in making a believable comic, his new project Atomech, the inspirations for Atomech, designing mecha, being exposed to tokusatsu in the late ’70s, the earnestness of Japanese superheroes, the tone he’s aiming for with Atomech, the format of Atomech, and focusing on the book until it’s done. 20:00: Getting the first adventure out there, having material for a second story, his creative process, hating drawing panel borders, using SketchUp to maintain consistency, being mostly self-taught until he went to Savannah College of Art &amp; Design, being exposed to new influences and meeting good friends, his local community of artists, ColaCon, the internet as game-changer, finding communities of like-minded individuals, and the changes in comics since 2009. 30:00: Falling gatekeepers in comics, earnestness in his own work, the natural inclination to want to justify what you’re doing, finding a lot to offer in blaxploitation deeper than its surface elements, doing a straightforward story as an answer to the mockery of blaxploitation, and respecting the genre he works in. You can find him on @World_of_Hurt, a Facebook fan page he rarely uses, and @Atomech. He discusses hearing “world of hurt” in the wild, the Charlotte Mini-con, and HeroesCon. Atomech launches later this year, but other good tokusatsu/superhero-related comics are Wook Jin Clark’s Megagogo and James Biggie/Josh Van Reyk/Frankie B. Washington’s Robot God Akamatsu.  Recommended Links: –Tokusatsu –Shotaro Ishinomori –Charlotte Minicon –Heroescon –Megagogo –Robot God Akamatsu –ColaCon –JLGL’s tag on tumblr Jay Potts: –@World_Of_Hurt –@Atomech –World of Hurt

<center><a href="http://www.inkstuds.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/jay-potts-2009-04-13-WOH-1.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a></center> Comics as we know it is wide and fractured. There’s Direct Market comics, bookstore comics, webcomics, indie comics, manga, Eurocomics, and several more subcultures. I’m curious about what working under the broad umbrella of “comics” is like for creators, publishers, critics, academics, and more. Over the course of this month, I’m going to interview several people whose work, position, or goals I find interesting and attempt to paint a picture of what “comics” means today. For the month of February, I’m taking over the Inkstuds podcast in order to introduce Inkstuds Spotlight, a focused look at what it means to be in comics. A comprehensive look isn’t my goal. My goal is to show you several different slices of life in comics, as the people I’m interviewing this month play a wide variety of roles in comics. Today, I’m speaking to Jay Potts, a cartoonist working on his new series and navigating how to respect his inspirations while still making his work his own. A bit of context before we begin: Inkstuds is a comics podcast founded and hosted by Robin McConnell. It’s focused largely on indie and underground cartoonists, and now that it’s 500 episodes deep, exists as a great resource for finding out not just more about comics, but about the lives of cartoonists. ComicsAlliance is one of the most important news outlets in comics. I’m biased, having written for CA for a few years, but the staff has a voice and variety of interests that still can’t be matched. With both sites broadcasting Inkstuds Spotlight, I’m hoping we can reach a wide slice of the comics readership. Today I’m talking to Jay Potts, creator of the blaxploitation-themed webcomic <a href="http://worldofhurtonline.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World of Hurt</a> and the upcoming tokusatsu-inspired series Atomech. Potts works largely in an adventure comics mode, creating stories where men and women go out and dispense justice or make things happen, and without a publisher. His tales avoid ironic takes on familiar ideas in favor of simply telling a good story that obeys the rules of whichever genre he has chosen to work in. That’s an interesting approach to me, considering how much of the comics industry leans on nostalgia, irony, and deconstruction nowadays, so I spoke with Potts about his influences, consciously processing those influences, and respecting the idiom. 0:00: Potts discusses his entrance to reading comics thanks to seeing his older brother draw comics, the influence on his art styles from artists like John Buscema and José Luis García-López, enjoying Gene Colan’s work on Howard the Duck and Tomb of Dracula, following artists instead of specific comics titles, George Perez, García-Lopez’s short runs on various titles including Cinder &amp; Ashe and Twilight with Howard Chaykin, the iconic nature of García-López’s work, and striving for believability in his own work. 10:00: The importance of consistency in making a believable comic, his new project Atomech, the inspirations for Atomech, designing mecha, being exposed to tokusatsu in the late ’70s, the earnestness of Japanese superheroes, the tone he’s aiming for with Atomech, the format of Atomech, and focusing on the book until it’s done. 20:00: Getting the first adventure out there, having material for a second story, his creative process, hating drawing panel borders, using SketchUp to maintain consistency, being mostly self-taught until he went to Savannah College of Art &amp; Design, being exposed to new influences and meeting good friends, his local community of artists, ColaCon, the internet as game-changer, finding communities of like-minded individuals, and the changes in comics since 2009. 30:00: Falling gatekeepers in comics, earnestness in his own work, the natural inclination to want to justify what you’re doing, finding a lot to offer in blaxploitation deeper than its surface elements, doing a straightforward story as an answer to the mockery of blaxploitation, and respecting the genre he works in. You can find him on @World_of_Hurt, a Facebook fan page he rarely uses, and @Atomech. He discusses hearing “world of hurt” in the wild, the Charlotte Mini-con, and HeroesCon. Atomech launches later this year, but other good tokusatsu/superhero-related comics are Wook Jin Clark’s Megagogo and James Biggie/Josh Van Reyk/Frankie B. Washington’s Robot God Akamatsu. <center><a href="http://www.inkstuds.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/jay-potts-atomech-pinup.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a></center> Recommended Links: –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokusatsu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tokusatsu</a> –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotaro_Ishinomori" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shotaro Ishinomori</a> –<a href="http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/category/events/charlotte-minicon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Charlotte Minicon</a> –<a href="http://www.heroesonline.com/heroescon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heroescon</a> –<a href="http://wookjinclark.com/comics/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Megagogo</a> –<a href="https://www.facebook.com/RGAkamatsu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robot God Akamatsu</a> –<a href="http://www.cola-con.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ColaCon</a> –<a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/jose-luis-garcia-lopez" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JLGL’s tag on tumblr</a> Jay Potts: –<a href="http://twitter.com/World_of_Hurt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@World_Of_Hurt</a> –<a href="http://twitter.com/atomech" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@Atomech</a> –<a href="http://worldofhurtonline.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World of Hurt</a>

Inkstuds Spotlight – Jay Potts & Comics You Can Believe In