Jazan Wild
It varies. Carnival Of Souls was about my childhood and my attempt to deal with the REAL world, going from a small town in Virginia to Hollywood. Being a poor kid from a divorced family, and an unusual and dysfunctional upbringing... it was my dream to run away with the circus! We had a carnival in my small town every summer. It was the circus coming to town, with all of its magic on display just for me. (I wanted to live there forever!)
Careful what you wish for!
Funhouse Of Horrors, was inspired by my brief time working with Gene Simmons. I wrote the story with the intention of it being Gene's House of Horrors, but it was not to be. Nonetheless what emerged was a story about a kid who finds a haunted house a week before Halloween. Young Jake Stone is given a book titled "House of Horrors" by the wretched dwelling's caretaker. He reads the book and the ghosts from the pages materialize. They haunt him for years and he hates them for it. The only peace he gets is when he writes their stories down. So he becomes a hearse driving, ghost writer, who tells their stories for profit. Might as well make a buck, after all. (I had an old abandoned funeral home next door to me growing up that we would sneak into. It had caskets and all! That might explain a lot.)
Like Carnival Of Souls... Dandy, is a story about escaping into a magical world. I was a huge KISS fan as a child. I had a poster on my wall of the band. My brother and I had a closet with bunk beds, as a bedroom at one point and time. Directly facing my pillow was this poster that had KISS amongst all of this magical glitter. I thought it was actual magic dust, I guess. I wanted to climb into it. "If You Can Dream It, You Can Be It!"
Atomic Dreams, is a story about Robert J. Oppenheimer. My friend and world renowned composer Jonathan Elias, created a brilliant series of albums titled "Prayer Cycle", in which the theme was the creation of the first Atomic Bomb. One day in the studio, hearing Jonathan mix a track, I asked, "What if we made a graphic novel about this story?" And Jonathan being the coolest guy on the planet said, "Let's do it." I threw some Charles Dickens type twist to a factual tale and that was that!
Careful what you wish for!
Funhouse Of Horrors, was inspired by my brief time working with Gene Simmons. I wrote the story with the intention of it being Gene's House of Horrors, but it was not to be. Nonetheless what emerged was a story about a kid who finds a haunted house a week before Halloween. Young Jake Stone is given a book titled "House of Horrors" by the wretched dwelling's caretaker. He reads the book and the ghosts from the pages materialize. They haunt him for years and he hates them for it. The only peace he gets is when he writes their stories down. So he becomes a hearse driving, ghost writer, who tells their stories for profit. Might as well make a buck, after all. (I had an old abandoned funeral home next door to me growing up that we would sneak into. It had caskets and all! That might explain a lot.)
Like Carnival Of Souls... Dandy, is a story about escaping into a magical world. I was a huge KISS fan as a child. I had a poster on my wall of the band. My brother and I had a closet with bunk beds, as a bedroom at one point and time. Directly facing my pillow was this poster that had KISS amongst all of this magical glitter. I thought it was actual magic dust, I guess. I wanted to climb into it. "If You Can Dream It, You Can Be It!"
Atomic Dreams, is a story about Robert J. Oppenheimer. My friend and world renowned composer Jonathan Elias, created a brilliant series of albums titled "Prayer Cycle", in which the theme was the creation of the first Atomic Bomb. One day in the studio, hearing Jonathan mix a track, I asked, "What if we made a graphic novel about this story?" And Jonathan being the coolest guy on the planet said, "Let's do it." I threw some Charles Dickens type twist to a factual tale and that was that!
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