IF YOU GO AWAY – Interview

I had an interview with the wonderful P M Buchan about about maintaining a career creating comics, staying focused and dream projects.

You can read a sample below or check out the full interview HERE.

This week in IF YOU GO AWAY I interview illustrator, writer and comic-book artist Lyndon White about how he manages to maintain a career creating comics when so many others have failed. Read on past the interview to find out about the brilliant Pride & Prejudice (sort of) and Broken Hearts at Bodmin Jail.

Artist Lyndon White is a First-Class BA (Hons) Illustration for Graphic Novels graduate of Glyndŵr University whose work has been published by Image, Top Cow and Blue Fox Comics. He has run or contributed to over 30 successful Kickstarters and worked with clients including The Tower of London & Historic Palaces, Gatwick Airport and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival.

Lyndon’s greatest achievement to date is his original fantasy graphic novels, Candles, which is published by Cast Iron Books. An all ages story about a sorcerer’s apprentice in a world where everybody is taught never to use magic, Candles echoes the work of Hayao Miyazaki in a gorgeously-illustrated story that only begins to hint at the world Lyndon has created.

As an aside, I feel like I’ve known Lyndon for as long as I can remember, though we definitely met in the 2010s when I was more actively writing and writing about comics and graphic novels. Over time I learned that Lyndon has all the qualities that you could possibly want in a friend and creative collaborator – he’s thoughtful, ambitious, always striving to improve and incredibly receptive to constructive feedback, and more than that, Lyndon is compassionate, patient, and loyal.

We worked together in 2019 on the pitch for a story called NOCTURNAL BLOOM (link further down in this email) and although we never found a publisher, the process of working together was one of the easiest collaborative experiences of my life. If you’re looking for an artist to work with, I can’t recommend Lyndon highly enough.

Check out the full interview HERE