PITSBERG: Tim Eldred is our special guest!
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PITSBERG: Tim Eldred is our special guest!

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When Tim Eldred is not directing some of the greatest TV animation productions, he helms few amazing comic series as Grease Monkey and PITSBERG, an innovative SF multimedia webcomic.

Absolutely breathtaking!

This is time to take a break and have a good talk.

Hello Tim, welcome on Art Of Webcomics!
Where do you come from? 

I grew up in a Michigan farm town where comics were an escape from boredom. I went from reading them to making them and started my way up the ladder from there.


– How old are you? (Tel it or not!)
I was born in 1965, which put me on the leading edge of Generation X. Just old enough to remember the Apollo program and get hit square in the face by Star Wars and anime.
– Influences?
TV cartoons and SF shows like Speed Racer and Land of the Lost put me on the path to Star Wars and anime in the late 70s/early 80s. I was a Marvel kid in the 70s and moved on to more varied and mature comics in the 80s.

– Art school or not?
I spent two of my high school years in a vocational school for commercial art, then went into print media as my pre-comics career. That taught me everything I needed to know about design and packaging. All the writing and drawing stuff came to me naturally.
– Favorite digital art software?
Definitely Photoshop. Started with version 3, before layers changed everything.
– Your working method?
I like to gestate ideas for however long it takes, write down everything that comes to me, and then weave it into a story. From there, each chapter is scripted and drawn one by one. Writing every script in advance and then drawing them all takes a lot of the fun out of it, so I don’t go that way any more.

– What your webcomic is about, in a symbolic way, the hidden sense?
Pitsberg is a multimedia SF mystery set at a moment when the entire global civilization could collapse into anarchy. It’s about finding a way through that moment and coming out the other side.
– Tell us more about your main character, the hero(s)!
Lessi Lander is an engineer trying to save her company by selling mini-robots to asteroid miners. She thinks it’s going to go smoothly, but everything capsizes on day one. From there, she has to throw away the playbook and improvise, which requires facing some real darkness.
– How do you see your future?
After a lot of heartbreak in comics publishing, my career goal became to find a job that paid all the bills so I can make any kind of comics I want to without worrying about them earning money. That job turned out to be TV animation, and the comics are rolling along just fine.

If you wait for someone’s permission to create something, you’ll never get it. So don’t wait.


– Your next goal?
Pitsberg pushes everything I knew about making comics into completely new territory. I’ve got several projects to choose from after this one, and I’m hoping that push can continue.
– Advices for beginners?
If you wait for someone’s permission to create something, you’ll never get it. So don’t wait.
– Your technical secret trick?
I don’t know that I’ve got any technical secrets that anyone else doesn’t have, but maybe my secret is that I’ve never allowed myself to be limited by technology. Anyone who has ever told me “that idea of yours can’t be done” just convinced me to keep going and find a way. So far so good.

– Favorite quote?

“Make your world bigger.” So far it seems to be the solution to every problem I’ve encountered.

– Your social links and website?
Tim Eldred on Facebook and Instagram, Timjeldred on Twitter. My website is pitsberg.com, and my previous comics can be found at greasemonkeybook.com (SF comedy) and ourstarblazers.com (anime).

A huge thanks to Tim Eldred!