Episode #153: Rich Douek - Comic Book Writer, New Titles 'Road of Bones' on IDW and 'Wailing Blade' on ComixTribe

On Fresh is the Word, we like to deliver wisdom through great stories from the minds of bright creatives of pop culture. Through those stories, we like to dissect the journey of our guests and present actionable lessons and advice for our listeners no matter what career or avenue of artistry they pursue. The guest for this episode is New York City-based comic book writer Rich Douek, who has a couple of a new titles with Road of Bones #1 premiering last week via IDW Publishing and Wailing Blade #1 coming this week via ComixTribe. In the past, Douek wrote the Gutter Magic and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe books on IDW Publishing along with being an award-winning copywriter in advertising. During our chat we talked about Road of Bones and Wailing Blade, creating universes, the real world parallels of his stories, and the spectrum of horror writing. Each episode, the guest is asked to suggest someone from their life/career that should be on Fresh is the Word that would have good stories to tell. Douek chose the artist on Wailing Blade, Joe Mulvey, and Andy Schmidt, former Senior Editor at IDW Publishing and former Editor at Marvel Comics who now runs Comics Experience. Follow Rich Douek: Web: rdouek.com Facebook: facebook.com/rdouek Twitter: twitter.com/rdouek Instagram: instagram.com/rdouek Comixology: comixology.com FRESH IS THE WORD PATREON: patreon.com/freshistheword THEME MUSIC Courtesy of Knox Money, Bang Belushi, and Foul Mouth. SPONSOR Founded in 2015, 20x20 Apparel brings original tributes to Pro Wrestling's classic arenas, moments and events. They look to spotlight the Bloopers, Bleeps and Bodyslams along with the Biggest, Smallest, Strangest & Strongest. In the world of wrestling there are 100's of shirts, promotions, flyers, social media accounts and ads. Don't get lost in the sea of parody shirts and display fonts. We can provide professional graphic design services at a reasonable price. 20X20 also hand screen prints all tees in house. If you would like to discuss a possible run of tees, posters, koozies, foam fingers...Zubas, then drop them a line at 20x20apparel.com