An Interview w/The Homeless Channel's Matt Silady

[Hennessy]

From AiT/Planet Lar:
When Darcy Shaw starts a twenty-four hour cable network called The Homeless Channel, she thinks she's got everything figured out. But confronted with an unexpected romance, a sibling out on the streets, and corporate sponsors who think they know what's best for her network, Darcy starts to wonder which is more important: saving the world or saving herself.

"Silady explores his ludicrous premise with intelligence, yielding powerful drama..."
Tom Russo, Entertainment Weekly

Silady has caught lightning in a bottle here, and the end result is one of the best graphic novels, and arguably the best debut, in the last five years."

"There’s the same slightly crumpled, wry idealism at work here as there is in the very best episodes of The West Wing... unmissably good."
Alasdair Stuart, Fractal Matter

If you're a fan of Sports Night and especially Bendis' stuff you'll definitely dig this book.

Here's an interivew I did with The Homeless Channel's creator Matt Silady.

[James Sime @ Isotope]

Originally Posted by Hennessy

Here's an interivew I did with The Homeless Channel's creator Matt Silady.

Damn DAMN good book!

Like American Born Chinese the year before... I knew this book in it's mini-comic format and when I learned of the date of a graphic novel collection I jumped at the chance to get to throw the launch party at my shop (pictures).

Matt Silady is a talent who is really going to go places in this industry.

[Hennessy]

Those are really cool pictures.

I really randomly picked up the book and was really blown away by it.

Also totally agree, Matt Silady is very talented and I can't wait to see where he goes.

[Matt Silady]

Thanks, Tim- The interview was fun!

James - I was about to call you the ultimate comic book "early adopter." But after a little research I came across this:

early adopter - An early adopter is a person who embraces new technology before most other people do. Early adopters tend to buy or try out new hardware items and programs, and new versions of existing programs, sooner than most of their peers. According to a theory called Diffusion of Innovations (DoI) formulated by Everett Rogers, early adopters make up 13.5 percent of the population.

Early adopters, while eager to explore new options in technology, are not the most daring, and are not especially prone to taking risks. That role, according to Rogers, is played by a small minority of people called innovators. Only one person in 40 is of this type. They are the people most likely to conceive and develop new methodologies and technologies, and who often end up running large IT corporations or founding new ones.

So, there you go: James Sime, innovator.

And for the record, this is still one of my proudest moments:

[Matt C. Linton]

Picked this up in Chicago. Outstanding book, and I'm looking forward to more.