Hey Brandon so I just heard you were the one who hooked Ricken up with DC and I was just wondering how did that come about?

Ricken is really interesting in that she does fan art of characters that (in my opinion) is soooo much better than the vast majority of the real deal. 

In an ideal world I feel like DC or Marvel or whoever would just throw money at her to do fan comics of their characters. but things never seem to work like that.

So I knew her work from Deviantart. (here) and would rant about how it was crazy that no one was hiring her at these companies that she was doing amazing fan art of. Around then my pal Joe Keatinge was doing some DC work and brought her on to draw it (along with some covers of his Image books). I hope it was a good experience for her— it kind of killed me (& Joe) to see the colors that DC put over her fantastic lines. I still hope to see more full books drawn (and colored!) by her printed over here. I’m sure I don’t need to mention how much I prefer to see people do their own non-corporate work but I got the idea that she has some joy in fan art. sooo I wish her the best with that. Maybe Marvel would throw an X-23 book at her or something (and please let her write it—shit— print it in Japanese, it’d be awesome) she’s soooo good at it.