"Prepare for New York Comic Con...and Adventure!
Fall
is upon us and with it comes the East Coasts largest (and 2nd largest in
the US) convention of comics, artists and pop culture greatness, New
York Comic Con, October 11-14, Javitts Center, NYC.
As you make your way around the Javitts make sure to
check out new comer to the comics arena, J. Wichmann who will be
hanging out in artists alley. We've been keeping a close eye on Mr.
Wichmann (pronounced Witch-man, which after a little research, his last
name literally translates to 'Man of War') for the past few months and
as he readies the release of the second issue of his self published
adventure-romance comic, 'Thief of Hearts', exclusively at NYCC'12 no
less, we here at BF felt it was time to spread the word about J. and
about the 'Thief'...
"The Thief has been an idea I've had for over a
decade now..." Wichmann recalls, "Tristan Casimir [the Thief] and other
series characters, were created while daydreaming in school... I started
doodling out characters and ideas, thankfully I saved those doodles, as
they ended up being the seeds that have grown into an adventure. I
really wanted to read a comic that's a classic adventure story,
something filled with romance, humor, and of course lots of action, and
after not really finding what I was looking for, I just decided to make
it."
Having started making art at a young age, J. went on
to become 'class artist' in high school, eventually earning his BFA
in Illustration and graphic design from R.I.T. in Rochester, NY. "I was
fairly lucky. Art and creativity runs in my family, so my parents were
fairly encouraging and understanding when all my school progress
reports would say: always drawing during class, needs to pay attention
more..., [laughs] well not that they didn't prefer I pay attention more
to school"
"I do everything but the coloring." Wichmann tells
us. "When you read comics you don't really think about it until you
make the jump into making comics, [besides writing and drawing] all the
other work involved with production for a book...layouts and graphic
design, editing, lettering, marketing, more editing, printing,
shipping...with the most successful comics you don't even notice that
stuff when you read them, but I definitely have a greater appreciation
for the folks out there that do it. It's hard work, but I wouldn't want
to be doing anything else!"
Explained simply, Thief of Hearts is about a
'love at first sight' chance encounter of a boy and girl, girl is
kidnapped by an evil sorcerer bent on unleashing an ancient god to
enslave the world and boy having to assemble an unlikely team of friends
and enemies to rescue girl and prevent our destruction. "When I
started outlining the story I had certain perimeters I wanted to
meet...fun characters, humor, lots of action, beautiful locations, high
production values and appeal to both men and women... I knew the story
type was one that had been told, well countless times before, so I decided to embrace that and see how I could use it to my advantage."
"I decided the best way was to present the
characters was with a number of smaller events that just cascades into
this massive adventure... instead of the usual characters-meeting-then-fighting-their-feelings
for a 100 issues, I thrust Tristan and Annabella[his love interest]
together very early on and then rip them apart, for like the majority of
the series. Pretty much everyone wants to find that one great love, so
this really becomes a story about how far would you go for the one you
love if you suddenly lose them? [laughs]The amount and intensity
of obstacles I put in Tristan's path is nuts, this whole boat chase
sequence I have planned in the middle of the series would make Michael
Bay wet his pants..." From what we've seen so far, we're very excited
about this series!
For NYCC, J. will have on hand Thief of Hearts issue
1(in case you missed it), three versions of Issue 2 - regular cover,
'Extra Virgin' topless sketch variant, and the 'My Fair Thief'
#comicmarket limited variant. He will also have various prints on hand
and be doing sketches between checking out cosplay babes. "They [NYCC]
haven't released table numbers yet, but I'm listed on their website in
the artists alley section, so you can add me on the show planner app the
convention has."
For more info about New York Comic Con, visit their website http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/ and to see more of J. Wichmann visit his art gallery at jwichmann.deviantart.com or you can connect with him on facebook: www.facebook.com/studiojcomics and twitter: @studiojcomics
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