Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Now less than a month away from its official release, The Deep: Here be Dragons has been getting some fantastic publicity. With TEN exclusive preview pages now available at Comic Book Resources, the interest level for this book has grown and grown. I’ve done a pile of interviews and am set to do a pile more.
Thought I’d stick links up to the interviews I’ve done so far for The Deep, and also post a link to the Official Facebook site – Right here.
Comic Book Resources (with ten exclusive preview pages) – Exclusive: Tom Taylor Explores ‘The Deep’
“The Deep” is a wonderful concept… a “Fantastic Four” meets “Fantastic Journey” – CBR
MTV Geek – Fun interview – (and similar pun to CBR) – Exploring The Deep with writer Tom Taylor
“…impressive stuff thanks to Taylor’s simple and clear take on the Nekton family combined with the wonderful cartoon-style art by Brouwer. It strikes just the right balance between smart, funny, and menacing…” – MTV
Comic Booked Interview with the brilliant Nicci Sixx – Take a Journey to The Deep
“Fun for the whole family, I highly recommend grabbing your copy the very day it drops, and tucking your own family in with it that very same evening.…new depths of ageless family entertainment.”
Broken Frontier Interview with, fellow Australian, Kris Bather – Tom Taylor Dives Deep
“Australian writer Tom Taylor has been a juggler, a fire eater, a playwright and more. He’s chartered the course of Luke Skywalker and DC’s The Authority and now has an all-ages undersea adventure to be told in the attractive pages of new OGN, The Deep.” – Broken Frontier
Tags: comic book resources, Gestalt Publishing, James Brouwer, MTV, The Deep, The Deep: Here Be Dragons, Tom Taylor
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
‘Invasion Rescues #4′ and ‘Blood Ties #2′ are both out today. Some great reviews and fan reaction has already appeared for both books and Daniel Logan (Boba Fett) and I have been interviewed about the book over at Comic Book Resources.
“Tom Taylor spoke about writing the adventures of Star Wars’ intergalactic man of mystery, Boba Fett and he brought along Daniel Logan, the actor who played young Boba in “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.”
“Award-winning Australian writer Tom Taylor is a busy man these days. He’s writing not one but two Star Wars series for Dark Horse Comics and he’ll also go down as the last person to write “The Authority,” at least under the WildStorm banner…”
Click the pic for the full interview, which includes Rancors, Flamethrowers and being shot in the knees.
Taylor and Logan explore Boba Fett's "Blood Ties"
You can also check out a preview of Blood Ties #2 HERE and a preview for Invasion HERE.
Tags: Blood Ties, CBR, Chris Scalf, comic book resources, Daniel Logan, Star Wars, star wars blood ties a tale of Jango and Boba, Tom Taylor
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Want to be a zombie? Now you can be, without having to be infected by some sort of super-disease.
Rome was big. Very big. Populating it (and depopulating it in Zombie form) in a comic is a big task. Skye Ogden and I have decided we want real people to walk (and shamble) through Rome’s streets. We want you!
Gestalt Publishing have set up a facebook page – “Be a Rombies Extra.” – If that link doesn’t work just type ‘be a Rombies extra’ into facebook’s search – “Here’s the deal: Post a photo of yourself as a Zombie or Citizen (or both) for the chance to appear in the upcoming Rombies comic series from Gestalt Publishing, written by Tom Taylor (Star Wars/The Authority) & illustrated by Skye Ogden (Vowels)”
A special #0 issue of Rombies will be available in comic stores in August but it it is already available in other places and early reviews have been great.
“A large part of the book’s success stems from the stellar artwork of Skye Ogden. Working in a slightly cartoony style, Ogden’s art is lively and leaps off the page without sacrificing a stunning attention to detail. The Coliseum and its gladiators are beautifully rendered, featuring exquisite period design elements and decorative flairs. His figures are robust and expressive, the pencils impeccably inked with a nice heavy line that lends each character weight and solidity. It’s a unique style, wonderfully matched to Tom Taylor’s crisp, fast-paced script. Like his collaborator’s artwork, Taylor’s script achieves a fine balance between levity and real emotional moments… Taylor delivers a rousing, fun story even if it’s steeped in half-devoured corpses and rivers of blood.” – Broken Frontiers.com
“Did I get what I expected out of this book? No, I got a hell of a lot more. I loved the animated style artwork, and hey how can you not love a zombie lion? The story was done right. It didn’t go where I thought it would, which is a good thing. It’s not a B-movie story that is told here. It is an action pack death fest. I will say this, if Romero directed Gladiator this is what it would have looked like. Check this one out, it is highly enjoyable and I think a must read for zombie fans. 4 stars” – ComicMonsters.com
Skye and I have also been interviewed recently right here, which includes a six-page preview of Rombies #0.
Tags: Gestalt Publishing, Interview, Review, Rombies, Skye Ogden, Tom Taylor, Zombies
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Randy Stradley has teased a little tidbit over at Dark Horse about something I’m currently working towards (because apparently my brain doesn’t feel busy enough already). This should make a lot of Chris Scalf fans (of which I’m one) very happy.
“Writer Tom Taylor (Invasion) has submitted a proposal to turn the concept of Blood Ties(previewed here two weeks ago) into a semi-regular series, with the idea of having artist Chris Scalf provide the painted art for each issue! Note: it will not be what you expect it to be!”
I’m very happy to see this made public and I’m looking forward to throwing myself into it after I finish the last Jango and Boba Fett script.
Next up, an interview I did for Star Wars Books in the UK.
“My day generally begins when I am kneed in the chest by the full force of a four-year-old jumping on me while screaming ‘time to hop up, dad!’. I wrestle with him for a while and then I wander down my hallway and press the power button on my computer. I keep walking to the coffee maker. Sometimes my wife will already have it on, because she’s wonderful. I take my coffee back to my computer where I check my emails, Facebook, new comic pages and other art, internet forum chatter about my work, Skype messages from editors and I generally update my website if there’s something worth mentioning. Then, once all of that is done, and if I’m heading out of the house to work or heading to Colin Wilson’s house for coffee, I will put on pants.”
The rest can be read right here.
And of course… Star Wars: Invasion — Rescues #2 is out today!
Tags: Colin Wilson, Interview, Jo Chen, Star Wars, Star Wars: Invasion, Star Wars: Invasion Rescues, Tom Taylor, Yuuzhan Vong
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Dark Horse Comics have a new blog, and they have posted a sneak peek of a simply stunning page from my upcoming Jango and Boba Fett miniseries by artist Chris Scalf. I’ve seen all of Chris’ pages for the first issue and people are in for a real treat come August. I think, next time we work together, I’ll have to write an entirely silent book, so my words don’t get in the way.
And Westfield Comics recently interviewed me about the upcoming Jango and Boba Fett miniseries – check it out to find out more about the book, how the series came about, and my thoughts on lettuce.
Tags: Boba Fett, Chris Scalf, Dark Horse, Jango Fett, Star Wars, star wars blood ties a tale of Jango and Boba, Star Wars: Blood Ties, Tom Taylor
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
My first issue of The Authority hit the stands yesterday and, so far, I’ve only read good things about the issue… which is nice.
The first review is up at Comic Addiction
“As much as I hated to see the previous creative team go, I can tell already that the title is in good hands. 8 out of 10 (On its way to greatness!)” – Comic Addiction
My first Authority interview has also appeared over at the Higher Authority – Tom Taylor: The Theater of Comics
“You know that feeling when you’re endangering your own love-life by juggling knives over your wife for total strangers and a hat-full of coins? No? Well, just like that, writing comics feels a little bit risky but absolutely right.”
Tags: Comic Addiction, DC comics, DC Wildstorm, Interviews, Reviews, The AUthority #22, The Engineer, The HIgher Authority, Tom Taylor The Authority.
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
The Undercover Fanboy has interviewed me about all things Star Wars and comics in a very fun interview right here – the-undercover-fanboy-interviews-writer-tom-taylor/
I reveal my secret origin, my greatest comic book writing hope and talk about everything that’s coming up.
Staying with interviews, the THIRD part of my four part interview marathon is up at NJOE.com – more goodness there.
I have to also mention that last night, in truly strange, random circumstances, I watched Doctor Who in a hotel room with Marv Wolfman and George Perez.
Tags: George Perez, Marv Wolfman, Njoe.com, Star Wars, Star Wars Adventures, Star Wars: Invasion, The undercover fanboy, undercoverfanboy.com
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
I’ve finally answered all of the reader’s questions for an interview over at NJOE.com (sorry it took so long). These will be appearing on the NJOE.com every Wednesday (Thursday in Australia) for the next four weeks, leading up to the release of the Star Wars Invasion: Refugees collection. I was confused by this as I thought the trade was coming out on May 13. Luckily, the people over at NJOE.com are far more knowledgeable than me, and they’ve told me that the release date of Refugees has actually been moved forward and it will now be available on April 28th! Anyway, you can check out the first of the four part series interview right here.
Get your Vong on – April 28th.
Tags: Colin Wilson, Finn Galfridian., Jo Chen, Luke Skywalker, Njoe.com, Star Wars, Star Wars Invasion: Refugees, Star Wars: Invasion, Tom Taylor, Wes Dzioba, Yuuzhan Vong
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
With the imminent release of The Authority, the second Volume of Star Wars: Invasion and the announcement of the Rombies series, I’ve been doing a pile of interviews recently. I thought I’d actually post some links.
First up, Colin Wilson and I were interviewed by the Comic Spot radio program about Star Wars and The Example. You can hear all of that right here
Next up, Rombies artist Skye Ogden and I were interviewed by the awesome website Cool Shite about our upcoming Rombies series. It’s a slightly awkward interview, as two interviewers try to interview two creatives in two different countries, but it has Zombie Gazelles and no one needs more than that.
Luke Skywalker and the Treasure of the Dragonsnakes is reviewed by the EU Review here (at about 18 minutes). The script and Daxiong’s art both come in for some high praise. “A very good read’ that they ‘highly recommend”.
Over at Half Hour Wasted and the Legion of Dudes, an entire extended edition has been dedicated to a review of Star Wars: Invasion #4 & #5 and they like us… they really like us! Click the pic for the podcast. 
Also just done two magazine interviews, another radio interview and three other website interviews (links when they all appear).
In the coming days, the website is being revamped – it will look pretty. When it relaunches, I should be able to speak about a few of the ‘secret’ things that I’ve had to keep close to my chest, including ‘The Example’ film news and another great piece of news about ‘The Authority’.
Tags: Colin Wilson, Daxiong, Eu cantina, Eu Review, Rombies, Skye Ogden, Star Wars, Star Wars Adventures: Luke Skywalker and the Treasure of the Dragonsnakes, Star Wars: Invasion, The Comic Spot, Tom Taylor
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