Humor Mill: We are sitting here with Flex
Alexander at Hollywood’s Choukair Fashion
Store (in Hollywood), and I love this store.
Anyway, we’re sitting next to Flex because
he has a lot of stuff to tell everybody, and
we are going to jump into right now. So
Flex, you are jumping into the graphic
novel business. Can you please tell
everyone what your thought process was
to even get behind something like this,
especially jumping from comedy to the
graphic novel business?
Flex Alexander: I’ve been a comic book
graphic novel head since I was younger,
and I went to High School of Art Design in
New York. As a matter of fact, that’s what
we did; we sketched, we drew, we talked
about comics… A lot of rappers that you
know, like Kwame, Organized Konfusion,
Prince Poet, those guys are all art design
alumni, and that what we did. I collected
comics and I would draw the covers and
one artist in particular really inspired me,
an artist named John Byrne…
HM: The X-Men guy…
FA: Yeah, his art was just the best to me.
So when I got in this position I actually
created ‘Joshua Run’ as a series, and a
friend of mine was at Lionsgate and he
left Lionsgate and I was stuck, as I had
this idea. I was stuck, so I talked to Dave
Stuart at Lion Forge and I pitched it to
him. A friend of mine introduced us, and I
thought he did movies, and TV so I
pitched that, and he said ‘we don’t do
that, we do graphic novels, comic
books’ and I said, ‘what would you think
about this as a graphic novel?’
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