Comments on: A Conversation With Bryan Lee O’Malley – SPX 2008

By: Scott Pilgrim’s Bryan Lee O’Malley interviewed | The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:12:54 +0000

[...] McCulloch has posted a long conversation with the author of Scott Pilgrim, Bryan Lee O’Malley over at Comics Comics. Excellent [...]

By: r

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:48:55 +0000

cool

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This Week We’re Enthusiastic About… | The Enthusiasticast — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:53:22 +0000

[...] transcription of his conversation with Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley at the 2008 Small Press [...]

By: name?

name? — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:31:57 +0000

Haha I love the advice at the end! I also know what he means about copying sailor moon.

By: Lastworthy

Lastworthy — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:28:55 +0000

Great interview!
I’m particularly interested in his response to the idea of an animated SP, with the idea that it’s “not supposed to be about cartoon people”. I think it makes a lot of sense when you consider the vintage of the interview and the tonal shift in SP5. In that capacity I think SP5 was a lot closer to Lost At Sea than the other Scott Pilgrims were. I’m also kind of interested in how he reconciles that idea with the forthcoming videogame.

By: Zack Soto

Zack Soto — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:07:01 +0000

also, the Rudolph revelation makes so much sense.

By: Zack Soto

Zack Soto — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:06:07 +0000

excellent interview!

mang: full of shit/aesthetically cross-eyed.

video games: RDR is the first game in years to soak up time like this, I need to quit it and get back to work.

By: will

will — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:22:48 +0000

That would be a cool sticker to find on a new book: “Now harder to blog about!”

By: will

will — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:18:15 +0000

I’d definitely read an O’Malley comic that took the ‘airiness’ you talk about and ran with it — I’m almost imagining something like “Slacker” that just follows some people talking, which is really what he’s best at, and if you pay attention to his webcomics, where he started. The videogame/manga thing is a skeleton, I think, that he throws his sense of humor onto. It’s a little more crucial than an excuse to make weird puns, but it’s a little beside the point.

It would be interesting if he stepped back from the entertainment he talks about focusing on in SP and went back to making slightly harder-to-like, harder-to-boing-boing-about work.

By: joe mcculloch

joe mcculloch — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:40:14 +0000

(Of course, I’m setting aside the stated RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER connection for the sake of digression…)