- Hey everybody!
We're at SXSW Interactive 2016
and I'm here with Emma and Martin,
we're going to talk about something
near and dear to my heart,
digital comics,
geek culture.
Lets define what geek
culture really means.
So Emma what's your take on that?
- When I define geek
it's about being really
passionate about something
and really loving it.
Whether it's comic books or cooking,
it doesn't matter
you're passionate about it.
Whereas nerd,
I define that as being
an expert on something,
so you know everything about it.
You can be both.
You can nerd out and be down on something.
- It used to be
kids who were very into science
and Dungeons and Dragons
and fantasy when I was growing up,
but now geek culture is diffused
all parts of popular culture
and that's what we're going to talk about
in our panel today.
Everybody's an expert
on something,
on some sort of show.
- [host] Right, so we've seen geek go
from something that was
really kind of niche oriented
to mainstream.
Especially in the last five, six years.
I have to ask you
out of all the different
properties that are out there
that represent geek culture in some way,
maybe they're related to comic books,
maybe they were inspired by them,
what do you consider your favorite?
- Easy question for me,
definitely the Walking Dead.
- [host] Walking Dead, excellent.
You got a chance to see them
yesterday I believe,
some of the folks behind the scenes.
- Yeah, that was really cool.
There was a panel
where they were talking about
how they shot on 16 millimeter film
and kind of all of the
technical aspects of that.
That was really cool to hear.
- There's a lot of great TV shows,
a lot of great, big block buster movies,
I'd say my favorite though,
was Guardians of the Galaxy.
Not only because it's a great movie,
but because it proved a model
that you don't have to be
one of these decades old character.
They're old characters,
but they weren't that well known.
We were just out in L.A.
talking to different places,
and they loved the fact that
they can take characters
that didn't do that great as comic books
and make them into movie stars.
- What are you most
excited to talk about today
in the realm of digital comics
and geek culture.
- I just love talking about geek culture
and really how that's...
Especially in Atlanta
we have Dragoncon,
we have Joystick Game Bar,
My Parents' Basement,
We have so many geeky things going on.
I just love telling that story
because Atlanta's still figuring out
what it's going to become,
which is so exciting to kind of see
the transition with the city.
I just love that geekdom is
such a huge part of that.
- I like talking about all this stuff too,
more from a comic book perspective
because that's what we do at Farrago.
The fact that there's only a half million
or a million people buying
print comic books these days,
but there's 50 or 100 million people
who like comic books,
or like the source material
they just don't want to pay for it.
Just getting that word out
and telling people there's alternatives
to getting the source material
gets me going.
- Guys, I'm really excited to learn more
at the panel.
I can't wait to see it.
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