10 Questions with a creator: Joey Lee Cabral

1)        What is your position with Urban Myth Studios and what does that entail?

I am considered a co-founder alongside others but really I’m just taking credit for the studio members book successes like Red Bratva and Not again Zuez”

2)        Who are your favorite artists and where do you draw inspiration?

My top by category would by the greatest Travis Charest, Inspiring Oliver Coipel and Painter Dustin Nguyen.

As for inspiration I would say social media, I look on Facebook or Instagram and see what people are doing with their talents and challenge myself to do the same.

3)        What are your favorite comics?

My favorites would be Civil War for the art, Ultimates for the story and Joker by Bryan Azierrello and Lee Bermijo just because it’s just awesome

4)        Where do you hope the studio is in 5 years?

We’ll be a studio of friends each doing work professionally. I feel like we have accomplished so much now that where I hope to see the studio is basically inevitable. 

5)        If you could learn from any artist in any time who would it be and why?

Michelangelo, there was no form of art he couldn’t do.

6)        If you could assemble your perfect creative team to work on a comic book project (not produced by Urban Myth) who would they be and what would they work on?

Cover Artist Travis Charest

Writer Frank Miller

Artist Oliver Coipel

Inker Mark Morales

Colors Pez (I would fire him so I could work with them).

7)        Outside of drawing what are you interests and hobbies?

My mistress is Call of Duty, all of them. (Gamer Tag: LazarusKOD for X-box)

8)        What is your favorite movie and why?

Gladiator by far, it’s just a great movie, visually it wasn’t like anything else, story was great and even in his death there was victory (epic ending) it’s funny cause I can’t wait for him to die. I’m there crying saying GO TO THEM, GO!

9)        Do you have any books being worked on at the moment?

Not really, LOL I just talk about doing the sequel but never put out anything on paper. Story is done, just need to draw it. Call me Joey Lucas. I will though, this year Kause Of Death 2!!!!

10)     What’s the best part about creating your own comics?

Just that, calling the shots, making your own rules and the outcome of the characters are just the way you want it.

10 Questions with a Creator: Daniel "PeZ!" Lopez by Steven Crowe

1)      What is your position with Urban Myth Studios and what does that entail?

I am Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer. I help creators with design and story ideas as well as coach them through creative issues.

2)      Who are your favorite artists and where do you draw inspiration?

BIll Watterson, Joe Madureira, Christian Lichtner, LeSean Thomas, Norman Rockwell,…too many to name, maybe. As for inspiration, art inspires me, whether it's in american illustration, or renaissance artists, or comics, or music, but Calvin and Hobbes was the very thing that got me into sequential art.

3)      What are your favorite comics?

Atomic Robo is probably the only still existing comic that I really really enjoy. I grew up on Ninja Turtles, so I'm partial to that comic as well. As for past ones, I loved Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee's Batman: HUSH, Joe Madureira's Battle Chasers. Brian Azzarello's Joker was brilliant…and Calvin and Hobbes.

4)      Where do you hope the studio is in 5 years?

In it's own building/office, working on sweet, new material.

5)      If you could learn from any artist in any time who would it be and why?

Leonardo DaVinci. Because!

6)      If you could assemble your perfect creative team to work on a comic book project (not produced by Urban Myth) who would they be and what would they work on?

Brian Azzarello writes, Pez and Lichtner on art, Comicraft on Letters. I don't know what we would work on…but it would be MAGICAL!

7)      Outside of drawing what are you interests and hobbies?

Movies and music.

8)      What is your favorite movie and why?

Batman Begins.  As brilliant as the production and filming were on that movie, the concept that you can take something so old and change it dramatically and still stay true to the core of the character and keep old fans, as well as gain new ones, is something that should always be remembered.  Appropriation.

9)      Do you have any books being worked on at the moment?

Yes

10)   What’s the best part about creating your own comics?

The afternoon naps.  They are PRICELESS!

10 questions with a creator:  Erick Osuna Cabral  by Steve Crowe.

1)      What is your position with Urban Myth Studios and what does that entail?

 I am a co-founder of the studio and President & Publisher. I work with our creators and try to publish the best books possible.

2)      Who are your favorite artists and where do you draw inspiration?

There’s way too many to list all (but I’ll try) I love guys like Jimmy Cheung, Oliver Coipel, Art Adams, Steve Skroce, Geof Darrow, Jae Lee, Steve McNiven, Fiona Staples, Jim Lee. Great inkers like Scott Williams and Tim Townsend. On a day to day basis I get huge inspiration from the guys in my studio; Joey Lee Cabral, PeZ!, Chad Fuller, Steve Crowe and Johnny Segura. All these guys remind me of how far I’ve got to go, but motivate me to get better.

 3)      What are your favorite comics?

I'm an old school Marvel guy, I grew up on X-Men and Avengers. I pretty much hate that I’m still a fan of Marvel. I'm still pissed they raised their prices to $3.99, but it’s the only place to buy Mighty Thor and Cap comics. Star Wars holds a special place in my heart and I’ll buy all their Dark Horse books. Right now I'm into Wild Blue Yonder, Massive, Manhattan Projects, Thief of Thieves, Saga, East/West, and Polarity. I buy way too many comics.

 4)      Where do you hope the studio is in 5 years?

Producing regular and on time comic books that are available for sale everywhere. It wouldn’t hurt for us to implement a health and wellness program so we wouldn’t be as fat then as we are now.

5)      If you could learn from any artist in any time who would it be and why?

Jim Lee because he is a legend of an artist and has handled his business extremely well.

6)      If you could assemble your perfect creative team to work on a comic book project (not produced by Urban Myth) who would they be and what would they work on?

I'd put Hickman and Coipel or Brian K Vaughn and Jimmy Cheung on a Star Wars book.

7)      Outside of drawing what are you interests and hobbies?

I’m a big MMA fan. I’ll watch any movie (even terrible ones) and read anything I can get my hands on.

8)      What is your favorite movie and why?

Empire Strikes Back is hands down my favorite. I didn’t know good guys could lose until I saw this movie. The good guys get their asses handed to them and Darth Vader is a gangster. It blew my mind as a kid and I’ve rooted for the bad guys ever since.

9)      Do you have any books being worked on at the moment?

A new Red Bratva with frequent writing partner and Jimmy Daze Comics chief Jimmy Portillo. A fun adventure book with Arturo Portillo and a sci-fi project with an up and coming writer Josh Fisher.

10)   What’s the best part about creating your own comics?

I can kill everyone and not go back to jail (allegedly).

Pictured here (center) with Jon Dodson and Cub Swanson.