Tracy Butler dejó atrás una carrera universitaria en biología para seguir una carrera en su interés más querido de la infancia: dibujar cosas. Originaria de Nueva Inglaterra, se mudó a St. Louis, Missouri, para trabajar en un pequeño estudio de desarrollo de juegos, donde trabajó como ilustradora y artista conceptual, y luego como artista de personajes en 3D, animadora y directora de arte. Después de mudarse a una casa centenaria alrededor de 2006, quedó fascinada con la historia que la rodeaba y se dedicó a producir un cómic, Lackadaisy como una oda a esa historia y a los gatos.
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- Nuevas y exuberantes ediciones de tapa dura de 11.25" x 10.25" de Lackadaisy
- The Lackadaisy Essentials, un volumen de arte y tradición que destaca las escenas y los personajes del universo de Lackadaisy.
- Peluches de edición limitada del caótico protagonista de Lackadaisy, Rocky Rickaby, y el gatito criminal favorito de los fans, Mordecai Heller.
- Un nuevo episodio animado presenta un elenco de primer nivel que incluye a Michael Kovach (@kovox) como Rocky Rickaby, Belsheber Rusape (@BelRusapeVO) como Calvin "Freckle" McMurray, Lisa Reimold (@lisareimold) como Ivy Pepper, Ashe Wagner (@TheQueenViking) como Mitzi May y SungWon Cho (@ProZD) como Mordecai Heller.
Tracy Butler tomó tiempo de su apretada agenda para responder unas preguntas, primero en traducidas, luego en idioma original.
Muchas gracias a David Hyde y Hanna Bahedry de Superfan Promotions LLC por lograr la logística necesaria para esta entrevista
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Entrevista en idioma original (inglés):
I suppose it’s no secret we drew a lot of inspiration from the Xerox era of animation, but a lot of my character drawing and comic-making sensibilities stem from an early childhood obsession with syndicated comics like Calvin and Hobbes. More recent animated features like Cats Don’t Dance certainly left an impression on me as well.
It’s always been a little difficult to properly articulate why I chose feline forms for the characters of Lackadaisy. I suppose in my mind, gangsters and cats both exude the same confounding combination of smirking villainy and charisma. I wanted the characters to be fun to draw and fun to look at too. It probably bears mentioning that actual cats inspired several of the main cast of characters too.
2.- What do you find so attractive about that decade of the 1920s, famous for gangsters, for prohibitions and for the emergence of the noir era?
It was a time of chaotic politics, sweeping societal change, massive wealth disparity, astonishing capitalistic malfeasance, rampant crime, and burgeoning artforms. And it all came crashing down in the devastating, economic hangover of the Great Depression. It was a momentous comic-tragedy in many ways - a relatable one at that - which makes it a little irresistible as story subject matter goes.
3.- Do you have multiple seasons planned? Do you plan to take this story to other eras or are you just going to stay in 1920?
Yes, we absolutely have ideas for things beyond season 1! The crux of the story remains set within the late 1920s, but there’s a lot of focus on the retrospect of the characters, their memories and pasts, and the series of events that led them to lives of crime in the St. Louis underground. In that sense, there’s a fair bit of time-hopping woven into the story.
4.- The pilot includes a beautiful opening poem, do you plan to open each chapter of Lackadaisy like this?
We won’t be starting every episode with a prolonged poem (probably to the relief of some viewers), but I will say that we do have plans for some otherwise unconventional cold opens.
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