Name:Andres Salazar
Nom De Plume:
Andy
Creative Position:
Creator (writer/artist)
Contact Info:
FAVORITE COMIC BOOK:
Growing up:
X-Men
and now:
Southern Bastards
The 1 Superpower you want:
Invisibility, it feels like there’s so many options of what you can do with it.
Location:
Ventura, CA USA
Website(s):
Your Credits:
Creator of Pariah Missouri, SpaceBear, Writer/Director of After Cheri (film)
You Might lose more than a Jacket if you Dare face The7Deadly Questions
What is you favorite part of your project, is it the book, the game?
This is a hard question, I play games all the time,even last night we played Werewolf Tokens, but my history is with comics and stories, so I have to say the comics are my favorite, mostly because of the time and thought that’s gone into the storytelling.
What Indie Title are you currently a huge fan of?
Southern Bastards, Lazarus, Anything Chris Ware, Hip Hop Family Tree
Why take on that time period and how did the game come about?
I am a huge fan of westerns and Civil War stories. I wanted to do something that I was excited about, and I felt that westerns are common, but stories before the civil war are not as common. I wrote this story before Django Unchained, and stories about slaves and slave states are more uncommon and I wanted to get into that world. The game came from my love of RPGs and boardgames. I made the RPG sourcebook so that I could play Pariah at conventions and with friends, and it took off. Once I played TIME Stories I was hooked, and I found out that Space Cowboys had a developer kit it was a no-brainer that I would make Pariah TIME Stories.
How is sex different in the time period you are using and how does it effect the story?The 1850s was a very different time with different ideas about morality, God and religion. Sex was considered a sacred act within marriage and at the same time in these Boom-towns they had brothels, although they were not as common and popularized as modern TV shows like Deadwood would have you imagine. If you were known to sleep around you would be ostracized pretty quickly, it was a religious time, 90% of everyone believed in God and eternal punishment and reward. I think what we show in Pariah, MO is that people are human with weaknesses in any periods and that fidelity can be one of those weaknesses.
The time period you picked is often looked back on with some shame do you deal with the thing we regret from that time period such as hunting the Native American Indians and slaughtering them ?
Book 3 deals specifically with the Comanche Nation near Pariah, as well as some of the issues around slavery. I wanted to make a historical fiction, so I researched, I try to make my characters seem real and have real motivations. We deal with some of these issues the best as we can in 300 pages of a graphic novel, while still maintaining our first directive, to be Entertaining!
Do you think if born during the gold rush would you have tried your luck at gold mining?
Sure, I would have tried anything, I think as a person I would always be drawn to art and story, but I think the call of the wild would come to me.
What is a mistake you made in your early years that our readers can learn form ?
Write from your heart and your experiences. Do what makes you happy and don’t be afraid of failure. Always try something out and don’t give up.
Well done partner you have yourself a single paragraph to tell us why we folks should become fans and what you reckoning on working next :
“I am finishing up Pariah Missouri, the books were going to be 5 graphic novels, but we changed it to 3, so I am ending the series, collecting it and this will be my opus and love letter to this genre, I think when all is said and done, people will really enjoy it. It’s taken many hours and been both a joy and painful and I think worth it. My next project will be another genre, I have a story about Calexico, where I was born on the Mexican/US border, it’s a gritty crime story about human trafficking”
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