Summary: On Christmas Day 2010, we all had a big, fat, cyber-present given to us by Daniel Lieske, a game industry artist in Germany. After a year of hard labor, and more years before that plotting and planning, he rolled out the first chapter of "The Wormworld Saga" free, for nothing, for all to see, as an online graphic novel. Although Daniel had been blogging about his process all along, I didn't run across "The Wormworld Saga" until I read Charley Parker's Lines and Color blog entry about it. Once I read it, I was not only hooked by the excellent storytelling but by the luscious graphics. It is part Maurice Sendak, part J.R.R. Tolkien. It is a boy on summer vacation starting an adventure and you are going to want to come along on the journey. I could not tweet/facebook/blog/shout-from-the-mountain-tops about it loudly or soon enough when I finished it. I knew we had to get Daniel interviewed for our podcast as soon as possible not only to discuss its creation artistically but to go over the business model he is employing by launching his work free and online because, I'm betting, this is the future of many of our creative lives. Because Marc Scheff is a true Renaissance man, clear of thought and sound of voice, I asked him to lead the interview while I was more or less along for the ride making sure we had a backup recording of the call and getting to listen in and go all fangirl at the end (like I knew I would). Please send feel free to leave comments or email us directly at drawntoday at (@) gmail.com Listen to the podcast here!Daniel Lieske The Wormworld Saga Lines and Colors:The Wormworld Saga - Charley Parker Die Gestalt DES Menschen (German Edition) -Gottfried Bammes Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up - Jason Cheeseman-MeyerUnderstanding Comics: The Invisible Art - Scott McCloud Caspar David Friedrich Kickstarter Sulphur and Dana Operation Ajax Subscribe to Drawn Today in iTunes Subscribe to Drawn Today's main RSS feed
