IMAGINE YOU'RE AT A COMIC-CONVENTION AND YOU SPOT YOUR FAVORITE CREATOR.
YOU KNOW THEY HAVE BEEN SIGNING BOOKS FOR HOURS BUT YOU MAKE THE DECISION TO
ASK THEM SOME QUESTIONS WHILE YOU'RE WAITING IN LINE.
YOU ONLY HAVE A FEW SHORT MINUTES, BUT WHAT DO YOU ASK THEM,
THAT THEY HAVEN'T ANSWERED ALL DAY, AND HOW MANY QUESTIONS CAN YOU SQUEEZE IN?
SIT DOWN WITH US AS WE BROWSE THE ARCHIVES AND
TAKE FIVE with...
1) What is the more "cut-throat" industry...comics or fashion?
Billy: I would say fashion is more "deep-throat!" (Laughs)
2) BATTLEBOOKS...Why do you think they didn't catch on?
Billy: Because Marvel Comics didn't do it's end of the bargain to promote it, pretty much.
3) What's the status of the SHI movie at this time?
Billy: How do I say that Deb? What do I say?
Deb: Right now there's a bidding war going on. It will be settled soon, hopefully, and we'll know if we'll be renewing with Franchise or if we're...
Billy: ...Going with somebody else.
Deb: We're dealing with different parties we can't name at the moment.
4) With Joe Quesada now Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics, and bringing in various new creators, would you consider doing a monthly book or mini-series if he asked you?
Billy: Oh yeah!!! I'd do a mini-series. I couldn't do a monthly book, but I could definately do a
mini-series of some kind.
5) Now for the off-beat question...You have a midget, a hammer, and a roulette wheel.
What are your plans for the evening?
Billy: Um...can the roulette wheel have body parts on it?
You would have to use the midgets!
Billy: Oh really!?! ...and a hammer? I know I'm gonna think of something tomorrow.
How long do people get to think of it?
It's supposed to be a "spur-of-the-moment" type question...
Billy: Let me think...let me think...hmmm...a midget...
Deb: You guys had a midget dancing on a bar at one of your parties! This should not be a difficult question for you!
He and Jimmy (Palmiotti) had a joint birthday party and somebody, it was probably Nelson, got a midget in a diaper...
Billy: ...And a Roman helmet !...
Deb: ...and a Roman helmet...and he danced on the bar. I'd just add a hammer and roulette wheel to that!...and you tell me what you come up with!
Billy: ...We'll go with that!!!
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WILLIAM TUCCI STARTED IN THE WORLD OF FASHION DESIGN, BUT HIS LOVE OF COMICS, AND HIS DESIRE TO BRING HIS CREATION, SHI, TO LIFE, LED TO HIM TAKING EVERYTHING HE OWNED AND RISKING IT FOR HIS DREAM.
AFTER MONTHS OF WORK, AND AIDED BY FRIENDS AND FAMLIY, BILLY MADE HIS DREAM COME TRUE
AND CREATED CRUSADE COMICS. SHI BECAME AN OVERNIGHT SENSATION, AND HE HAS SINCE BECOME A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR IN THE COMICS AND ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY.
I HAD A CHANCE TO SIT DOWN WITH BILLY AND HIS WIFE WHILE HE SIGNED AND DREW SKETCHES
FOR A HUGE LINE OF PEOPLE, AT THE 2001 PITTSBURGH COMICON.
THANK YOU BILLY, FOR THE HELP YOU'VE GIVEN ME IN SOME OF MY ENDEAVORS,
AND FOR TAKING THE TIME FOR THIS INTERVIEW!
