Interview with: Graig F. Weich,
President & Creator, BeyondComics.TV
Interviewed by: Paul Dale Roberts, Publisher - Jazma Online!
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1.) Question: Tell us something personal about
yourself. Your family life. Schools you attended. Heck, maybe something
about
your first girlfriend!
Graig F. Weich: Wow, that's is one major question!
Four actually, lol... Hang with me while I teleport back in time using
my super
powers... of memory. You want personal, something no one in the world
knows, well, here ya go, sit tight... You asked about my
first girlfriend, well, we made out on my couch for over 30 minutes,
her lying on top of me, while watching the "Dr.Seuss'
Cat in the Hat" special on TV, I was 6 & she was 8. Older woman
baby! (blush).
Ok, here's some more personal info no one knows, before
launching my Company www.BeyondComics.TV
& my Comic Books
& Animated series characters; Civilian Justice and Ravedactyl, I
got my start in comics being hired by Todd Mcfarlane & Terry
Fitzgerald to be the featured poster artist for Image Comic's SPAWN
issue #30 which was their big anniversary issue at the
time, where our hero Spawn Fights the evil KKK. I promoted that on the
Howard Stern Show as a Call-in. (Click the Link to see my
poster for Spawn: http://www.beyondcomicsinc.com/comicart.html
)
I recall taking time off from school (that is a nice
way of saying cutting class) to go to the PA Comic Con where Todd
Mcfarlane was doing a signing for his comic SPAWN, I live in NY so this
was a big deal, & to meet the man that started Image
Comics back when they first got their start, was an even bigger deal.
At the time, Image was #1 and they expected 5000 people on
line to get his autograph, they were right by the way.
So I had to figure out a way to get through that mess and get him to
see my work in the hopes he might turn some work my way.
But how? Well, coming from a background in doing special effects latex
molded costumes, I thought I would construct and latex
molded Spawn costume to catch his attention. This was before they got
the Spawn Movie deal so there was no hyped up movie looking
costume yet, only the old spandex one made of cloth when they were just
getting started.
So I bring my whole Mcfarlane comics collection, from Spider-Man to
Spawn, every issue he did to have him sign it (super fan boy
I was) and I get on the train just in time, which is just about to leave,
and as the doors are closing, I see my bag which held
my comics, has a huge whole in it, I look across by the tracks from
the train I am now standing in and see there are ALL my
comics spread on the floor, Gone. No time for me to take a chance and
run to get them or I miss the train & miss my possible chance
to break into comics. Man did that suck. I waved good bye to my collection
as the train pulled off.
Well, I get there, and the line for Mcfarlane is really 5000. No joke.
I get in my home made Spawn Costume (Click the Link to see
a pic of my Spawn costume: http://www.beyondcomicsinc.com/costumes.html
)
So, I walk in, and the Line of people part like the Red Sea! They start
screaming, "Its Spawn! Holy $?!t!". And I walk right
through. I will never forget the look of Mcfarlane's face as I neared
him, I imagined he was thinking something like; "Oh crap,
here comes some freakazoid in a Spawn costume who thinks he really is
Spawn, coming to kill me" LOL! He was real cool
though, I handed him my portfolio packet and explained that I made the
costume & am hoping to be a comic artist and the whole
deal, he kept nodding & smiling, then he took the packet & I
left.
It was only when I went home and watched the video my
Dad was nice enough to film for me, did I realize that trying to talk
through a latex molded Spawn mask in a crowd of 5000 people equals Mcfarlane
didn't hear a freaking word of ANYTHING I said.
In fact, on the video, I sounded like that teacher from the Charlie
Brown Peanuts Cartoon; "Wah-wah-wah". Then I see on the
video that Mcfarlane leans down to hand me this limited edition poster
he made & I walk away not being able to see too well in
that mask, with him holding the gift for me in his hand, not understanding
why I dissed him by not accepting it! OH MY GOD! I
AM SUCH A FREAKING %*$%^+!#*!!! Really, I was dying inside watching
this video. I thought I blew it...
...Fast forward to the next year. I get into the NY International Toy
Fair (I'm a big toy freak), I am wondering
around and get lost in that giant freaking building that has 1000 floors.
I notice off in the distance, a giant Red Cape. Looks too
big to be Superman's, so I run over and Sure enough, it is Al Simmons
Dressed as Spawn. I asked him what he is doing at Toy
Fair and he told me Todd Mcfarlane was starting his own toy company
(wow, seems like yesterday), I asked if Todd would be
here, he said only today & then he leaves. I asked how I could make
an appointment, he said, I should just walk in. so I RAN in.
I showed Todd the pictures from the comic con and reminded him that
I was the guy in the costume I made and explained that I
was trying to get a gig to draw for his company.
I wished I had my portfolio with me, and when I looked
down, in my hand, was in fact, my portfolio. I don't want to question
it, but I will
simply say thank you to the fates. I showed him, he looked, he liked,
he gave me his private mailing address and asked me to
draw his character and send it to him. Told me he was getting a few
thousand submissions a week and to give him some time. I was
in heaven. I sent it & waited. And waited.. And 3 months go by,
still nothing. I couldn't stand it. My mother suggested I fax
them. So, I sent a fax with a funny drawing of me waiting by the phone
for them to call and simply wrote: "HELLO?" So I figure
it's over. Back to finales at school for me, dream over.
I will never forget when I got the call from Image Comics, It was the
last day of school in my second semester when my pager
went off, I flipped out! I went to SVA (School of Visual Arts) and studied
art and writing with Walter Simonson, Klaus Janson,
Joe Orlando, Dennis O'Neal & John Ostrander who are some of the
amazing teachers I personally dedicated my first comic book to.
I will never forget how competitive the students there were, there were
two groups of kids there, one group was very
supportive of one another which is the group I was in, the other group
would tear you down & hate you if you were good. I recall
these "Cool Kids, AKA, the Bullies" always putting me &
the other underdogs down, and always making it hard for us until...
...I got the call from Image. As I said, it was the last day of school,
I was in Klaus Janson's class. My pager went off, it
said all 777 which was my families emergency code to call home. I ran
out of class and my Mom yelled in the phone: "Graig, oh my
God, you got it" & she played the voice message on the answering
machine from Todd Mcfarlane & Terry Fitzgerald from Image Comics
which said: "Hello Craig (Everyone calls me Craig instead of Graig,
it is like they can't see the G or something, lol), we've received your
submission and am happy to inform you that we are hiring you to be the
featured poster artist for our anniversary issue of Spawn".
I flipped out!
Now, there I was, a teenage kid who could only dream
of something like this, but it happened & I yelled out such a scream
of happiness, the people from the class room below come out to tell
me to shut up, lol., really. I ran back into Klaus' class
room & hugged him. I will never forget his words about CONTRAST
between panels in Visual Story Telling. All the mean kids that
had mocked me & made it hard for my friends & I, then suddenly
pushed past my friends and all flocked around me and wanted to
hang with me but not with my friends, so I nodded and smiled graciously
to them to be kind, I wasn't going to be rude or
anything, but I remained true to my original friends and we each tried
to help each other out, it was my first introduction to
understanding how to know who one's real friends are.
2.) Question: What were some of the comic books you used to
read when you were a kid?
Graig F. Weich: Everything! The book that really got
me into comics in a deep way, was Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns.
I
was just blown away by it.
3.) Question: Please brief us about your 2 comic book characters that will soon become an animated cartoon?
Graig F. Weich: Years and years in the
works to get to this point and it is still just to beginning and I feel
like I'm so
overworked, that I am ready to retire, lol. Here is a link to see them:
http://www.beyondcomicsinc.com/cjcomic.html
Well, I was going to release my comic book Ravedactyl first, but right
in the middle of it, the 9/11 WTC Attacks here in NY hit
and shook up the world. Being a fifth generation New Yorker, like many
people felt, we were in the midst of a war and had no
idea what tomorrow would bring. I was watching that little text on the
bottom of the news screen on CNN to see if we would live
another day or not, it was a horror that many remember. I hate the fact
that the Terrorists went after innocent, non military,
civilians who were just going to work at the WTC & traveling on
a normal air plane. At the time, it didn't make sense anymore to
release a new fictional super hero, everyone seemed to have lost their
way then, including me, I wanted to do something to help,
as many others wanted to do as well, I made donations, like many others,
to Red Cross and then found out that whole scandal about
them using the extra money to decorate their offices or some craziness
like that, which turned everyone's stomachs then.
I just felt that having fake super heroes with fake powers fighting
fake villains, seemed to have no point at that time. I
wanted to help in a bigger way, but being just one artist, what could
I do? I walked into a shop and everyone at the time was
wearing the USA pins and all, and I remember picking up a USA Flag scarf
& looking at the stars on it that represented the
states that unite our country together, I want to make it very clear
that in no way did this represent the President at all for
me, but the people, all the people coming together as one. The Flag
never meant anything to me before, but then, feeling out of
place & lost after the attacks, I felt that those little stars on
that little flag, represented ALL of us, no matter what race
or religion or nationality, we were all in this together.
I instinctively held the flag up, over my face, like a mask & looked
in the mirror on the store's wall. People behind me
started to clap & cheer, but they weren't clapping for me, they
were clapping for the idea of a symbol that represents where we
all live, that has now come to life & that is when it hit me! I
needed to make a new super hero that could help people vent
their rage an frustration in the safe form of a comic book, while at
the same time, helping to raise money for the Over-Looked
Victims from the 9/11 WTC Attacks in real life. A new super hero with
no super power, just a regular human who could be any one of
us under the Mask of Justice, that would represent the people. Not a
typical, USA Hero that does whatever the President &
Government says, but a hero that is us, the Civilians, hence the name
of the book, Civilian Justice. In fact, we actually have a
picture of Captain America shaking hands with my Civilian Justice character,
passing the mantel from the first USA Hero, to our New
one, thanks to the support of Marvel Comics. Here is a link to the Live
Action Short for "Justice": http://www.beyondcomicsinc.com/usatext.html
I have been teaching Art Classes since I was a teenager in the 1990's,
and I recall many of the young kids, right after the
whole WTC Attacks, thinking that anyone who was a Muslim, could be dangerous,
a lot of profiling all around, which I found to be
so sad. So I wanted to purposely Draw the Terrorists in my comic book
to look like Monsters and separate them from the kind,
peace- loving Muslims who have nothing to do with the war at all. I
draw the peaceful ones with kind faces so there would be a
difference in the look, just like if the Terrorists happened to be Americans,
I would draw them more monstrous as well to
separate them from kind Americans etc. I Didn't want to Draw the Terrorists
too human and normal looking for fear that the little
kids would then look at a regular, kind Muslim person and mistake them
for a terrorist which I saw too many people doing, it was
not right or fair.
So I made a point of dedicating my book, not only to the victims from
the attacks, but also to the innocent, peaceful Muslims who
got a bad rap out of this whole deal. I hate the way the whole war is
being handled, very sad, too many innocent lives being
lost from all sides now, it is tragic how so much got messed up and
that every place always has to be on alert.
When my Comic Civilian Justice won the Comic Book Museum Award along
with Marvel comics & Stan Lee for their work too, Here is a
link: http://www.nyccomicbookmuseum.org/exhibits/Nat_02/07.htm
& http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=101162&page=2
.
It helped a lot, because I was able to donate the first years profits
from the comic book to the Over-Looked Victims of the
WTC Attacks at the Rock NY Windows of the World Relief Fund, a lot of
the families were not eligible for the regular relief
funds because either their father or husband, who died in the attacks,
was not a US Citizen, which I felt was unfair to their
families, so the money actually went right to the people directly, unlike
many of the other funds. I met with the victims
at a Private gathering just for them, held at Planet Hollywood, I had
it closed off just for them. They were the kindest people
and seemed so grateful that they could have a hero to fight for them,
at least in the world of comics. This link is of some of
them at the gathering. http://www.beyondcomicsinc.com/images/9-11%20Fund%20&%20G%20.jpg
Since then, I wanted to move Civilian Justice into the issues that we
deal with today, deal with the mistakes on both sides
and try to create a better solution, and attempt to create a more peaceful
world. It will be very different from the first
book where it was an all out battle only, I want to expand the character
and stories to deal with many different issues and
fight all kinds of real villains instead of just fantasy ones, I want
my hero "Justice" to deal with the things we fear, and
allow us as readers, to live through him and feel we are no longer helpless,
but powerful, and can be a hero too, even if
only in a comic book. Peace of mind is important and that is what I'm
trying to do with this character.
Now onto a very different kind of Super Hero...
*RAVEDACTYL: Project: Evolution*, is a cross between Superman and the
Matrix meets the X-Files in the real world instead of a
fictional one.
Remember when you were a child, how you had dreams of growing up to
become a super hero... There is a reason why it's said; to be
careful what you wish for... for that dream is now the nightmare that
haunts one human who has been chosen to unlock the missing
link to a power he has no control over, which will expose the mystery
of our existence, our purpose and a secret, that will
awaken our awareness to tap into our 7th sense... Then a new Hero will
be born and fight to stop the rebirth of the genetically
altered humans that will threaten our lives. What if Mythology was not
myth, but fact! The truth is coming... in a war that will
forever be known as... *RAVEDACTYL; Project Evolution*.
That is my baby. The readers will delve deep into the questions that
still haunt us to this day that will finally be answered and
then they will be introduced to a New Super Hero with a never before
seen fighting style that no one is expecting. It is being
kept under tight raps now, but little previews can be seen of it on
my web site. I shot a live action version of it that just Won
the New York International Film Festival
Starring:
Donald Faison: From Clueless and NBC's Scrubs,
Coolio: Grammy Award Winning rapper from the new DVD of the Daredevil
movie (the Director's Cut), and
David Prowse: From Star Wars (the man behind the mask of Darth Vader).
It was such a kick to get these amazing celebrities involved in my super
hero movie-shorts, but they all really believed in the
project and wanted to be a part of it. It is such a thrill to be finally
turning Ravedactyl into an upcoming comic book &
animated series' now! Click this link to watch the Live Action Trailer
with the Celebrities in it for Ravedactyl:
http://www.beyondcomicsinc.com/topsecret.html
You can also see the upcoming Action Figures sculpted by former Todd
Mcfarlane Toys sculptor, the Great Brian Claus!
Click Link: http://www.beyondcomicsinc.com/cjfigs.html
4.) Question: How did this all take place, who approached you
first in getting your comic book made into a cartoon? Who will
air this cartoon? And How did you come up with the concept of this new
cartoon?
Graig F. Weich: When I draw & write my comics, I see it
in my head as a movie & or cartoon. With Civilian Justice, it was
clearer, a bad-ass hero by night, who fights the fears we are all afraid
to face. But with Ravedactyl, whoa, that was a hard one.
No one understood his fighting style because no one has ever fought
the way he does and no one has ever had the powers he
does. Click this link to see the Animation Previews: http://www.beyondcomicsinc.com/cjmanga.html
I did my first drawing of Ravedactyl back when I was only 14 years old.
He has changed so much from then, but I realized that
the only real way to show what he can do was through animation. The
question was how the heck am I going to get him animated.
So, I sat myself down, taught myself animation & got to work. After
a month, I had the best 8 seconds of animation anyone has
ever seen, lol! Yes, 8 seconds took a month. I learned that I would
finish this cartoon by age 75 at the rate it was going.
So, I started to see if I could somehow combine my digital special effects
work with traditional animation to develop a new
style. After a couple of years of working on it, I had it! Just what
I was looking for. After the short films I directed based
on both my characters; Civilian Justice & Ravedactyl, Won the New
York International Film Festival out of 400 other films, I
got signed by an LA based Management team. YES! Finally, someone on
the side of us little guys! I really needed the support at
that time, as I was dropping on my face from over working myself non-
stop.
Having a management team, helped open some doors, they said, if I can
partner up with an animation team, they will handle
getting the distribution for me! Yahoo! Finally, now all I have to do
is... MAKE THE FREAKING ANIMATION! OH MY GOD! How the hell
is that going to happen? Well, I made these media kits and started sending
them off to different animation studios.
Amazingly, a lot of them were interested, including the company that
did the animation for Bionic Six, one of my favorite
cartoons from the late 80's, but there was one company that stood out
from the rest; Master Cho Productions. They are an anime
studio that had worked on a multitude of animations for many other companies
including Mortal Combat, just to name a few. They
were the ones that liked my idea of combining traditional 2-D animation
art, with today's 3-D technology for motion, while
keeping it in the style of Anime/Manga which was very important to us
both. They also allowed me full creative control, which was
very important. I actually turned down a Huge Money deal with a company
that wanted to make my characters into a kiddy cartoon
which was just not the direction I wanted to go in, though the money
was good, I didn't want to sell out, I have been working my
whole life to make my dreams into a reality.
At the time, everyone thought I was nuts not to just take the money
and give up all my rights to the characters and let them
do what they wanted with it, but now that I have the animation deal
thanks to my new great friends at MCP, I am glad I held out
for something better, and these guys are truly masters of animation,
and I am honored to be working with them as partners.
I have opened Beyond Animation now, which is a new division of Beyond
Comics Inc.
My Management Team in LA is currently negotiating the best deal for
distribution with some of the top Anime companies around. The
cool thing is that MCP are using my original scripts & drawings
of my characters and texture-mapping them onto 3-D models to make
them move, the first time I saw this, I was actually screaming with
excitement and jumping up & down like a 5 year old, it was
the first time I saw my characters actually moving in the way I imagined,
after so many years.
I worked so hard at developing this new type of style for anime &
thought we had invented it, but the new Appleseed anime that
is coming out next year, has beat us to it, so now I have to say it
will look like that style, though we're putting our won twist
on it which rocks! Traditional art, with extreme detail, moving as smooth
as a Disney cartoon! Sweet!
After so many years of people telling me that being a comic book artist
is not a real job. I say to them that most people work
from 9am to 5pm, but in this field of art, is one of the only places
where you work from 9am to 9am, 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week without sleep until the project is complete! There is no rest time
or weekends for us little guys, crammed in our little
studios, working away. The big companies have hundreds of people working
for them, so they can turn out a zillion books a week,
but us little guys will have to take years just to get out a few comics
ourselves.
5.) Question: What other great things can we
find at Beyond Comics?
Graig F. Weich: Tons of updates to come over the next
year and a half. You can see ALL the Trailers for the live action super
hero movies, to the Anime/Manga cartoon previews as well as clips from
some of the talk shows talking about it with contests and
prizes too! In fact, we're running a CONTEST right now. Draw a picture
of either Civilian Justice & or Ravedactyl and email it
to us through our web site. The winning Art will appear in our next
comic book. They need to make sure to mention your web site
and their full Name, Age, City & State they live in to enter.
6.) Question: What cons will you be attending?
Graig F. Weich: I do a lot of signings in New York, like at
the Big Apple Comic Con & MSG (Madison Square Garden) & the
Jacob
Javits Center & some of the local comic shops. I ventured out to
the Wizard World Comic Con in PA too. Looking forward to doing
the San Diego Comic Con in Person, when I officially launch Ravedactyl
(Project: Evolution). I had one of my guys out there
for me, while I was back in NY, stuck in the studio, working.
7.) Question: Your thoughts on the comic industry?
Graig F. Weich: I think the movies and the true-devoted comic
fans are what is keeping comics alive at this point. Though I
love video games, I think it has replaced a lot of the comics that fans
may have been introduced too, otherwise. Also, it is a
very tight-nit industry. A lot of clicks, reminds me a lot of school.
I wish they were more open to welcoming newcomers instead
of trying to shut them out.
On another note, I think the fans are sick of having the origins of
their favorite original super hero characters retold and
altered a million times over and restarting an issue at number #1 for
the zillionth time, don't get me wrong, there are a few
comics that really needed to have this done & updated in a good
way, but sometimes they just do it to do it without caring about
the character and that is when I feel it is wrong, but I understand
why they are doing it, it is the companies attempt to
keep it fresh, but once something hits, then they release 100 versions
of the same characters and overkill it, such as: Web of
Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man, Spider-Man
Unlimited, Peter Parker, Spider-Man Adventures
& Spider-Ham(actually, I kind of dug it though, remember him?),
do you see where I'm going with this? Overkill. I love Spider-Man,
and a lot of those books rocked, but to put out so many of them at the
same time, ah man, just pick one Spider-Man and stick
to that, Right?! They are starting to put out a zillion X-Men titles
now too. But at least there are enough characters to go
around on that title.
This is why I felt it was so important to create NEW Super Hero characters.
New! Something the comic fans I grew up with could
enjoy as well as something newcomers could enjoy too. I noticed that
a lot of kids don't even know comics exist any more, there
are almost no comic book stores like there were, when Image came about.
I found that many kids who come to the comic book
conventions for the first time, pick up my comic and there is that glee
of excitement in their eyes. The same kind I used to
have as a kid when I first discovered comics, thanks to my folks. "A
new hero!" the kids always say. They ask me a zillion
questions, from what are his powers to who would win in a fight. I love
answering everyone, each time. Yes, another new member to
comics, I say welcome.
I think Scott McCloud of the Book Understanding Comics, said it best,
we need to find a new medium to re-invent comics to keep
them new & updated with technology, though I do not want to lose
the magic that holding a real comic in your hands has, but
something such as a REAL 3-D Comic without glasses. Lets just say I'm
working on some things.(Smile).
8.) Question: What is the website where we can
find information about your upcoming cartoon?
Graig F. Weich: www.BeyondComics.tv/
or www.BeyondHeroes.com/
as well as www.CivilianJustice.com/
& www.Ravedactyl.com/ .
Whew!
9.) Question: How can someone contact you?
Graig F. Weich: They can email me directly from my
Web Sites above. They can also order my comic books there, if they are
sold
out of the comic shops. A special Thanks to Diamond Distribution &
Wizard Magazine for their amazing support and great write-ups
too!
10.) Question: If you were stranded on a desert
island, what 3 things would you bring and why?
Graig F. Weich: That is a 'kewl' question, or I like to say
a fun phrase I coined, that something could be so Beyond Cool, it's
Frozen! lol. Ok, actually, the 3 things I would bring are; my girlfriend,
my folks & of course, my comics!
11.) Question: What recreational activities do
you enjoy?
Graig F. Weich: Sleeping, I don't get to do that much any more,
lol. But actually, writing music, playing piano & synthesizers,
reading & researching on the net, Ebay, lol, and video games when
I get a second. But sleep seems to be the winner. I work about
17 hours a day on average. When I was trying to get out my first comic
book, I stayed up for 3 days without stopping and ended up
in the hospital, the soul was willing to work, but the body wasn't,
I was living on Brisk Ice Tea to stay awake.
12.) Question: What books do you read or have
read?
Graig F. Weich: "Finger Prints of the Gods" was interesting
and "Flowers for Algernon" and Gladys S. Gallant's (my Grand
Mother)
murder mystery book: "Living Image", (I guess writing runs
in the family). And so many art books I cant list, but great ones
for drawing comics are "Drawing the Human Figure" by David
K. Rubins & "Dynamic Figure Drawing" by Burne Hogarth,
All of
Bridgman's books too, they still hold up, and I always love a retro
look back at "Drawing Comics the Marvel Way" for fun,
forget about the "Marvel Way" part & just enjoy the book
and some of comic's founding fathers, for without those guys, we wouldn't
be here today! A lot of people complained that it is copying the Marvel
Way, but that is ridiculous, just extract the important
points of what they were saying in the book and use your own style,
end of story.
13.) Question: What comic books do you read now?
Graig F. Weich: I hate it when comic book artists pretend they
don't read comics, that is total BS, they love comics and are
just trying to act like they are overly cool, I READ COMICS & AM
PROUD TO SAY IT!!! Most recently I have read; The Ultimates, The
Ultimate Six, Jim Lee's Batman (I still love his work) & I just
read an amazing version of Superman called: "Secret Identity"
.
14.) Question: What movies, cartoons, TV shows do you enjoy?
Graig F. Weich: Ooh, I like this one. Fun. Unfortunately, there
are almost no Saturday morning cartoons any more. I LOVED the
1980's toons, Spider-Man & his Amazing Friends, ehehehe, I get excited
thinking about it. Bionic Six, Turbo Teen (the kid that
turned into a red sports car), Thundercats, Transformers (Big Time Love)
etc. I upgraded to Akira back in the late 80s. That
blew my mind. I still like Justice League Unlimited (there are those
titles again). But my ALL Time favorite is Max Fleischer's
Superman from 1941, the ones that the Batman the Animated series' look
was based on which I also loved.
15.) Question: What kind of hobbies do you have?
Graig F. Weich: Well, my hobbies are tied into my work a lot
now, there are a lot and I found a way to tie them all together
through my company, such as writing, playing & composing music,
singing, digital editing, special effect, sculpting, latex molded costumes,
voice- overs, acting, directing, model kit making & Kung-Fu for
fun.
16.)Question: End of interview, any last words
of wisdom?
Graig F. Weich: Thanks a lot Paul, for taking the time to give
us independent artists a voice. it's been fun. I say in my super
hero short films, that "as long as I am remembered by at least
one person, I can never die." It is clear to me that we cannot
take anything with us when we die, not even my own creations, but if
I can leave something of value behind for those that remain,
then that is my goal. I guess it is my way of living forever through
my work. It is hard when a lot of people like to tear
stuff apart that others have worked so hard on, maybe it is because
they have not been able to Create anything themselves,
but hate it or love it, at least I can say, I did.
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