Birth SiteLabor Days as a concept was born in old apartment of mine sometime in 2002.
Rick and I had known each other for a year or so. I had just graduated from college and Rick had just moved back to New York from a dalliance in Florida. We'd talked about doing a comic book together but only in the vaguest sense.
And, one night, we ended up sitting around in what turned out to be an impromptu brain storming session. Although, at the time, neither of us quite realized that's what it was.
Rick started talking about a character who was obsessed with a mysterious videotape and we started blabbing about a chase across a city.
And then there was the single moment in which I believe Labor Days was truly born: Rick grabbed his forehead and pretended to be this as of yet unnamed character. "But what is on that tape?" he said, in an overblown dramatic stage whisper.
The character, who would end up being Bags, had no more definition than that. The tape was pure mystery. The locale was simply a city.
But, as it turns out, it was enough.
Stay tuned for part two. When we get swords.
Rick and I had known each other for a year or so. I had just graduated from college and Rick had just moved back to New York from a dalliance in Florida. We'd talked about doing a comic book together but only in the vaguest sense.
And, one night, we ended up sitting around in what turned out to be an impromptu brain storming session. Although, at the time, neither of us quite realized that's what it was.
Rick started talking about a character who was obsessed with a mysterious videotape and we started blabbing about a chase across a city.
And then there was the single moment in which I believe Labor Days was truly born: Rick grabbed his forehead and pretended to be this as of yet unnamed character. "But what is on that tape?" he said, in an overblown dramatic stage whisper.
The character, who would end up being Bags, had no more definition than that. The tape was pure mystery. The locale was simply a city.
But, as it turns out, it was enough.
Stay tuned for part two. When we get swords.
