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Keith Chan — featured creator
Keith Chan is a MU Anthropology student and also the creator of Keeley: Comic Hero Extraordinaire in his spare time. You can read his comics online, or buy them at Rock Bottom Comics in Columbia. Also be sure to check out Chan’s Comics! Games! Anthropology! blog.
1. What are you working on now comics-wise?
I’m inking the second page of Keeley: Comic Hero Extraordinaire #4. It’s a lot of fun to draw because it starts with all-out buttkickery.
2. How’s your comic output been the last year? What’s helped or hindered your output?
I barely remember what I did two months ago! My dissertation research has taken most of my time, and rightly so. I do the most work at and around the monthly [Midmococo] meeting. In fact, I’m inking this page so I can show it off and start pencilling page 3 this coming Sunday!
3. Read any good comics/graphic novels lately?
I got the first Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes tome, with the original stories from the 50′s and 60′s. It is h-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s. I’ve never read anything Silver Age and I’m wallowing in it now. I like how Luthor makes a communicator to speak through time out of radio parts in prison, but when he attempts to call the Legion of Super-Villains in the future, they’re unavailable because they’re in prison too! It makes sense and no sense at the same time. And then Hitler shows up and switches bodies with Superboy.
4. How about other media anything good you like lately? (video, music, books, etc.)
I just played Professor Layton and the Curious Village on the DS. It’s a neat puzzle collection in a charming little story. And now I constantly think “this reminds me of a puzzle, m’boy!” I also just rewatched Superman Returns and Casino Royale. They’re both as good as I remember, but Kevin Spacey’s “Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryptonite!” literally made me cringe.
5. The setting for your comic is where you live (Columbia MO). Any thoughts behind that approach?
Living in a certain location for so long, it develops its own character. Think Frank Miller’s work, but dial it waaaaay down. Living in the setting of my comic is also advantageous when I need references for backgrounds. I’ve been bad though: I’ve never actually been to the Cosmo Skate Park. I drew that part of issue 3 when I was out of town and I used photos I found on Flickr as a loose reference.
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