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| Kafka (Renegade Press, 1987-1988) by Steven T. Seagle & Stefano Gaudiano |
(from an intervew at Comic Book Resources, 14 November 2013)
...That takes me back. [Kafka] was my first professional
work. When I was sixteen I started self-publishing with a couple of
other artists in the Denver, Colorado area where I was living. It was
1983 when we started, so basically you had Cerebus, Elfquest, First
Kingdom, American Splendor and a handful of other independent comic
books out. The black and white boom hadn't hit yet. Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles came out at exactly the same time I started
self-publishing. A lot of people got the notion, "Hey, we have this
distribution system" -- at the time there were half dozen different
distributors selling to comic book stores -- and people started
realizing what Dave Sim and Wendy Pini and Richard Pini were doing. You
could make a comic book, send it out to distributors, bypassing
publishers. Honestly, our book wasn't very good but we sold some copies,
maybe 1,200 or something. After self-publishing for about two and a half
years I met Steve Seagle and if you read the Image edition, we talked
about that experience in the back of the book. I was in college and
because I'd already had the experience of producing a quarterly comic
book religiously, this black and white anthology, I felt confident going
in and saying yeah I can handle drawing a miniseries. He'd already sold Kafka as a concept to Renegade and was just looking for an artist,
and the editor liked my work. That was my first professional assignment
where I made a little money drawing comic books. It was a pretty great
experience, and I loved seeing it repackaged by Steve's company, Man of Action, through Image. Marco Cinello added graytones to the black-and
white art and did a brilliant job adding a new dimension to the work...
Stefano Gaudiano is currently one of the premier inkers in comics, collaborating Michael Lark for long runs on Gotham Central and Daredevil. In addition to his inking, Gaudiano has worked as a penciler on a number of projects and his very first professional comic work, Kafka, was re-released by Image Comics in a new edition in 2013. Gaudiano's new project is joining Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's The Walking Dead.
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