INTERVIEW: SHOLLY FISCH ON DYNAMITE’S MIGHTY mouse

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Mighty mouse #1 Alex Ross cover

Sholly Fisch is the writer of Scooby-Doo Team-Up, teen Titans Go!, as well as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, as well as has likewise worked on action Comics, Mr. Peabody as well as Sherman, as well as super Friends. now he turns his interest to Dynamite’s revival of the traditional superhero Mighty Mouse. Fisch tells Westfield’s Roger Ash more about this fun, new series.

Westfield: exactly how did you ended up being included with the project?

Sholly Fisch: I assumption the roots were laid a few years ago, although we didn’t understand it at the time. back when “mighty” Dynamite editor Anthony Marques was on personnel at DC, he as well as I worked together on some Superman stuff, as well as we’ve been looking for a possibility to do it again. He called to see if I wished to pitch concepts for any type of of the jobs that were coming up at Dynamite, as well as Mighty mouse was one of the ones that made me go “Oooh!”

Westfield: Are you a fan of Mighty Mouse?

Fisch: Sure, for almost all my life. When I was a kid, I utilized to watch Mighty mouse on TV all the time. In fact, I still have the 45 rpm Mighty mouse record that my sibling Mindy as well as I utilized to listen to when the show wasn’t on. A couple of decades later, I re-discovered Mighty mouse in a whole new way, with Ralph Bakshi’s remarkably insane new Adventures of Mighty Mouse. I’ve got that total series on DVD too. Not to mention that I can still sing the whole Mighty mouse style tune by heart. Actually, the one possible down side to working on the Mighty mouse comic is that the song’s been running around in my head for months. Fortunately, it’s a quite fun song.

Mighty mouse #1 Igor Lima traditional cover

Westfield: Why did you choose to bring him into the genuine world?

Fisch: The germ of that concept came from the people at Dynamite, however quite much whatever else came from me. one of the difficulties that I always deal with when I’m composing a character whom people have understood as well as liked for 75 years – whether it’s Batman, Bugs Bunny, Mighty Mouse, or whomever – is discovering new stories to tell. Bringing Mighty mouse into the genuine world for the very first time was a excellent method to do that.

As I started to believe about exactly how to approach the series, I provided a fair amount of believed to determining the genuine core of the character, as well as realized that it’s all right there in his style song: Mighty mouse is his world’s biggest hero, always there in the nick of time to save the day. That’s a huge part of our series, too. When Mighty mouse very first gets thrust out of his world into ours, he starts out trying to assist a lonely kid. however things keep escalating over the program of the five- problem series, so by the end, he’s our only hope to save the world – or perhaps even both worlds.

Westfield: What other characters will visitors meet?

Fisch: Well, as you’d expect, we’ll see appearances by Mighty Mouse’s traditional supporting cast – his girlfriend, Pearl Pureheart, as well as his arch-enemy, Oil Can Harry. however Mighty Mouse’s genuine co-star in the series is a real-world youngster named Joey. When we very first satisfy Joey, he’s a lonely, bullied youngster who escapes from his issues by watching cartoons as well as drawing his own homemade comics. He might utilize a friend…but he gets a whole great deal more than he bargained for.

Mighty mouse #1 Igor Lima cover

Westfield: You’re working with artist Igor Lima on Mighty Mouse. What can you state about your collaboration?

Fisch: The tricky thing about a series such as this is that it needs a number of totally different art styles: a realistic style for the genuine world, a cartoony style for Mighty mouse himself as well as everybody back in Mouseville, as well as yet one more style for the comics that Joey draws. Igor’s doing a excellent task of catching all of those different styles as well as getting them to blend together, while likewise making it obvious that Mighty mouse truly doesn’t belong in the genuine world. Not an simple task, however Igor’s pulling it off well.

And while we’re speaking about art, exactly how great is it that we’ve got covers by Alex Ross as well as Neal Adams? They’ve been two of my preferred artists for years, however I can’t state I ever expected to see them draw covers for a comic book that I composed – let alone for Mighty Mouse, of all things! It’s quite crazy, however hey, I’m definitely not going to complain.

Mighty mouse #1 Neal Adams cover

Westfield: any type of closing comments?

Fisch: Well, let’s see… I might talk about exactly how Mighty mouse is an all-ages book in every sense of the word, with action as well as engaging characters for kids, as well as nostalgic fun for older readers. Or I might state that buying a copy of Mighty mouse will enhance your life, remedy cancer, as well as bring world peace. But, really, there’s only one method to end an interview about Mighty Mouse: right here he comes to save the dayyyyy!

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