Contact met Manu Civiello

Ik heb net een mail gestuurd naar Manu Civiello, de illustrator van Korrigans die nu in China zit voor zijn huidige project.

Dit stuurds ik:

Hello Manu Civiello,

We are a group of four illustration students from the Netherlands. As part of our study we have to research an existing illustration project and the Korrigans series immediately sprang to mind. Part of this research is the interviewing of people who took part in the creation of the selected project. We were hoping you would be willing and able to answer a few questions for us. If so it would be greatly appreciated.

We were fascinated to hear of your current location and hope that all is going well with your current project.

Kind Regards

Anouk Essers, Emmy van Ruijven, Joni de Groot and myself Imogen Smid

List of questions for if you are willing and able:

-Who's idea was the Korrigans series originally?

-To what detail did you discuss the project with Mosdi before you started illustrating? And with other collaborators?

-How much contact did you have with Mosdi during the illustration process?

-How much artistic freedom did you have while illustrating Korrigans?

-When inserting text bubbles are you in creative control or are the dimensions and the positioning determined by someone else? If so, who determines this?

-How long does it generally take you to produce one page for a comic? How long did it take you to illustrate the first book of Korrigans?

-What are your daily and weekly working hours like?

-What are your fees usually based on, the amount of comics sold, payment per page illustrated or another determinative?

-Do you make your living purely on comic book illustration or do you work on a wider range of illustration projects?

-When working on your own projects do you need external financing? If so how do you generally find this?

-Do you work to deadlines? If so are they the deadlines of the publisher or are they your own?

-Are there regular authors you collaborate with? Have you also written graphic novels or only illustrated them?

-Do you work with particular publishers on a regular basis?

-How do you promote your work for future customers? Purely your website or also by other means?

-What would you say has been the most beneficial way of expanding your network of business contacts?

-What/Who inspires you in your work?

-Which piece of work are you most proud of?