Ben Balistreri's "Seaweed and the Cure for Mildew"
Its Comic Con season and I know that a lot of you are getting excited to go. So to help get people even more excited, I wanted to let everyone know about Ben Balistreri’s new book "Seaweed and the Cure for Mildew". Even with his busy schedule at DreamWorks as a story artist, he had time to answer a few questions about his awesome book… Ben when did you first think of the story for this book and how long did it take to create? I was on vacation in San Diego and was enjoying a drink or two at the Tangiers Bar, which had a very " Casablanca " feel to it. I had been thinking of creating my own comic for a while, and this bar really inspired me. (Or I guess it might have just been the beer...) In any case it set the wheels in motion and I set about writing the story. That was about 9 years ago. So what was the process you went through in creating your book? I originally wrote an epic, that if completed, would have spanned seven books. It was a total...