Artist & Writer Matteo Scalera: The Father of The Fourth Father on Art & Creator-Owned Comic Books

About this episode

James Foster interviews comic book artist Matteo Scalera about his career and new graphic novel, The Fourth Father.

Join James as he chats with legendary comic book artist Matteo Scalera (Black Science, Batman, Deadpool, Hulk, Nemesis Forever, King of Spies) — the latest 'catch' in the InkPulp crew! Matteo shares his origin story: growing up in Italy obsessed with Dylan Dog, Spawn, 90s Image comics, and Saint Seiya (Knights of the Zodiac), attending comic schools in Milan, winning a major contest judged by Sergio Toppi, breaking into US comics via Image, his big Batman issue, long collabs with Mark Millar, switching to one-to-one traditional art, and the deeply personal inspiration behind his new creator-owned graphic novel, The Fourth Father — a 190-page family drama with superhero touches, born from becoming a dad. We dive into process, humility at early cons, paying it forward with portfolio reviews, the InkPulp brotherhood (Eric, Jim, Shawn), and why this book means so much to him. Don't miss this heartfelt, inspiring convo — and support The Fourth Father on Kickstarter! (Launching soon — pre-launch page live now!) Kickstarter Pre-Launch (Notify + get free first 20 pages via newsletter): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inkpulp/the-fourth-father-graphic-novel-by-matteo-scalera Matteo's…

People in this episode

Host: James Foster

Guest: Matteo Scalera

Topics covered

• comic book art
• creator-owned comics
• artist interviews
• graphic novels
• personal inspiration

Keywords

• Matteo Scalera
• The Fourth Father
• InkPulp
• comic books
• graphic novel
• Kickstarter

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: InkPulp, Kickstarter, Image

Books & works: The Fourth Father

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