Name:
Don Thomas
Nom De Plume:
John Zee. The Red King.
Creative Position:
Writer, Editor, Publisher.
Contact Info:
Don_thomas6@yahoo.com
FAVORITE COMIC BOOK:
Growing up:
Hellblazer
and now:
Moonknight
The 1 Superpower you want:
Diamond Distribution
Location:
Tennessee
Website(s):
theredkingpress.com/publishing
Your Credits:
The7Deadly Questions
Have you created your Best story of your life at this point , or is there better to come??
I would say that there is definitely more to come and there is no better teacher than the experience of doing. Have I already created the best story that I ever will? Maybe, as that is certainly the goal each and every time. But I feel pretty confident that I haven’t yet reached the highest ultimate limits of what I’m fully capable of, or will be capable of one day. That bar always gets pushed just as hard as I can push it.
What is a dream gig of yours in comics?
Ten year contract with one of the top four comic companies that includes rental property in southern Italy, the West Coast, and Tahiti.
What would you rather, a movie based on your IP or a cartoon series made out of your IP?
Cartoon series has much more potential for the establishing of long term, highly profitable merchandising with minimum effort. Plus, I already have plenty of on-comic stories scripted for film. Although honestly I think, if I could choose, my preference would be decade long HBO television series.
Do you think that too many male indie creators use women too explicitly to sell comics, instead of building believable female roles and making them more than eye candy??
Sex and sexual titillation sells. It sells candy bars, smartphones, and European sports cars. It is the world we live in, especially if you have something you are wanting people to buy. With modern day indie comic creators that sort of thing is as common as the ads for Sea Monkeys in the back of old comics displaying the Comics Code Authority seal on the cover. Plus it is a lot easier to concentrate on just visually enticing with sexual imagery of scantily 
clad female characters than it is to take the time and effort to try to create a truly believable fully fleshed out one. But male or female, a walking and talking two-dimensional stereotype, scantily clad or not, is only going to hold the attention of the consumer for so long.
What social issues make you angry and do you take them on or for that matter any other social issue through your titles??
There are a lot of social issues that I care about. The system is flawed and the cracks seem to get wider and wider each and every day. The longer and more adamantly true change is resisted, the greater the potential is there that when it does happen, which is inevitable, it will be too late and the truly awesome unlimited potential of the future will be squandered for a meaningless handful of dust and oblivion. No, not directly. The main goal is to tell the best story that you can, each and every time. Just not the place to start jumping on a soapbox or preaching from a chair.
What is you number one thing you are 
planing to get once you male your first million ?
The equipment and staff to start up my own Indy film studio.
Name a mistake you made in your creative lifetime and tell us how you got past it?
I didn’t believe in the fairy tale. Some, mostly average guy is picked randomly out of the crowd and given the opportunity for one shot at a portion of all the gold of Valhalla. No one expects much, because the task he needs to accomplish is so damn herculean. At which point I knocked it so far out of the park that the very pillars of heaven shook. But after they recovered from the shock of what they had witnessed, I was told that miracles don’t happen. Fairy tales are just fairy tales. They loved what I had done, but it was illogical to give me my due because at the time I didn’t have enough writing credits. But whatever the end result was, the task was accomplished and that was when my career as a writer was in its infancy.
Well done you have a single paragraph to tell us why we should become fans and what you are working on now :
“Oh what a grand thing it is to be there at the beginning. The moment before things begin to take off towards the stratosphere. The words, the images, the content all speak for themselves. Even now, for every creative project published, there are several more completed, waiting for their moment to be released to the public. In the end, I am a storyteller. Storytelling is my life’s blood. It is who I am and it is
the life that has chosen me. Everything I do creatively is aimed towards the pursuit of excellence. There are years of rich compelling stories to be told about Sideshow, The Five, Earth Outlaws, Stroke of Luck, Alliance of the Masque, Extremist, and Team Chicago just to name a few. Just take a moment of your time to immerse yourself in any of these titles and I promise, you won’t be disappointed.”
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