{"id":35125,"date":"2024-05-03T09:42:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T13:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=35125"},"modified":"2024-05-03T09:42:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T13:42:18","slug":"dan-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2024\/05\/03\/dan-parent\/","title":{"rendered":"Devour a Georgian dinner with Dan Parent in Episode 224 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to return to Awesome Con<\/a> for another conversation with a comics creator, following last episode\u2019s chat with Zombie King Arthur Suydam<\/a>. My guest this episode is Dan Parent<\/a>, an\u00a0artist and writer who’s worked for Archie Comics for 35 years. I was excited to talk with him for many reasons, a big one being how little I know about the inner working of that company, which I’ve only touched on briefly for you back during my lunch with Howard Bender in Episode 204<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Parent started at Archie immediately after graduating from\u00a0the famed Joe Kubert School, another topic I was happy to explore.\u00a0In 2010, he introduced the first\u00a0openly gay\u00a0character in\u00a0Archie Comics\u00a0when he created\u00a0Kevin Keller in\u00a0Veronica<\/em>\u00a0#202, which he wrote and drew. That character eventually got his own title with the publication of Kevin Keller<\/em> #1 in 2012.<\/p>\n

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Parent’s been involved with several crossover titles which expanded the Archie universe, such as Archie vs. Sharknado<\/em> in 2015, and the six-part crossover Archie Meets Batman ’66<\/em> in 2018. Parent’s creator-owned work includes Die Kitty Die<\/em>, which he collaborated on with artist\/writer Fernando Ruiz\u00a0in 2016, and which I found to be a delightful spoof of the comics business and many of the characters I loved as a kid. In May 2013, Parent was presented with the\u00a0GLAAD Media Award\u00a0for Outstanding Comic Book.<\/p>\n

We discussed why we both loved the legendary Ramona Fradon, how a Charlton Comics pamphlet gave him the tools to take his art more seriously, what he learned working at the start of his career with the great Dan DeCarlo, the character fans demand he draw the most during his convention appearances, the Archie artist who tormented him during his early days, how to respect legacy characters while still keeping them fresh, whose blood got added to the ink of which comics, how hopeful artists can do now what he did then, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us at Supra Georgian restaurant<\/a> — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — or wherever<\/a> you choose to consume your podcasts — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 223 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Listen via the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or simply use the embed below.<\/p>\n