1. What initially drew you to comics?
I was into drawing ever since I was a baby, so the love for anything visual (but mainly) cartoons and comics came naturally to me. My first comics were probably the early Hungarian publications the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Donald Duck, Pink Panther and other kid-stuff, and as time went on I got interested in Spiderman, Dragon Ball, etc. Each new comic I found that had some striking visual element (like the hatching and all that grit in the first Spawn issues for example, or the crispness of the black and white contrast in Sin City) made my little child-brain explode. And more importantly, they made me wanna draw.
2. Please tell us about your work on Storyteller, Hellboy, and any other titles you'd like to mention.
I was studying to be an animator/animation director in Budapest, Hungary, but spending years in animation school made me realise I'm not really good at teamwork (because I'm kind of a control-freak) and animation is mostly about working in a team. So as my diploma project I decided to make a comic instead of an animation, which book later became my first own published work titled "Ghostclown". Thanks mostly to this book (and my fanarts, i guess) I got contacted by one of my art heroes, Mike Mignola, to do a little Hellboy story for 2019's "Hellboy Winter Special", which is still super surreal to me. My second Hellboy story which will be a single-issue one-shot titled "Time is a river" will be out sometime next month and it is a straight-up continuation of my first Hellboy story (titled "The Miser's Gift). My Ghostclown book was also the gateway to working on a ghost-themed issue of Jim Henson's The Storyteller comics, which was also written by me. I'd like to continue working on my Ghostclown comic as an ever-growing little comic book universe, made up by loosely connected short stories under the banner of "Tales and songs of the Dead Ventriloquist" - I'm working on the upcoming (third) episode now.
3. What do comics allow you to do as a visual storyteller?
My short answer is "everything". Comics for me are self-expression. What I like in comics the most is that even though the whole story is written and drawn by someone, the experience itself is not done until I (the reader) read the whole thing. In film and animation what you see on the screen is what you get but in comics, you have to use your own imagination to make the story work panel by panel and page by page, and that to me feels much more personal and cozy. I love the feeling of sitting in a comfy couch, reading a comic book. And I REALLY love the feeling of creating one.
4. Please tell us about your creative process.
Each project is a little bit different, but my process usually goes like this: sketches/thumbnails in my sketchbook, then digital roughs/pencils on the computer, and then finally inking the whole thing traditionally.
5. Where can we go to find out more about your work?
For more info and insight about my stuff, I recommend checking out my instagram profile where I post wip-stuff regularly. Thank you!!!!
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