Matt Melvin will be in India soon to participate in the Hyderabad Comic Con
From The Last Nerds on Earth
Matt Melvin, one of the original authors of the hugely popular web comic Cyanide and Happiness (C&H), will be in India for the Hyderabad Comic Con on September 12. Matt, who is a special guest at the Comic Con, is excited to meet his Indian fans. “I hope you like high-fives as much as I do!” said Matt, adding that he was supposed to visit India a few years ago but the plans fell through. “But now, I get to make up for that. The only special plan I have will actually happen outside of the con — eating tonnes of authentic Indian food. I somewhat recently moved to Texas and the availability of good Indian food is unsurprisingly scarce. I’m very much looking forward to spoiling myself,” he added.
This avid video gamer is thrilled about his latest comic series, Last Nerds on Earth. “I started this series shortly after my departure from Cyanide & Happiness. I’d had the idea for a very long time, which started from a simple joke about how nerds would be great in a zombie apocalypse: parents’ basement works as a great shelter from the apocalyptic aftermath, collection of medieval and/or Asian weaponry serve as a great defense against the un-dead, just silly things like that. Slowly, it developed into more ideas around this same topic and characters, situations started arising. We’re over 100 pages in and starting on a third chapter! It’s a lot of fun,” said an ecstatic Matt.
Despite not being a part of C&H anymore, Matt said he is proud of his creations for the comic. “C&H was never advertised or promoted. People who liked it told others and it spread. It proves that if you make good content, you will find an audience. Even though I’m not a part of it anymore, I’m still incredibly proud of what I was able to create,” he mused.
Matt, who grew up reading comics like Far Side and Life in Hell, revealed that creating bizarre comics on the Internet comes naturally to him. “I think it was a combination of a love of comics and humour growing up and a passion for making things on the Internet. Coupled with the ease of reaching an audience online, I think I was almost destined to make goofy stuff on the Internet. It’s weirdly natural for me,” he pointed out.
The rise in the number of web comics on the Internet is good news, said Matt. “Not every comic will be super crazy popular and that’s perfectly okay. That’s the beauty of the internet. It doesn’t need to be. Even the smallest web comic can have fans who love everything about it. You’re not fighting for airtime, which leaves you to make exactly the thing you want,” he concluded.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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