The Geof Darrow Shoot Interview!

[@mcfoodstamp]

Geof was such a nice guy when I spoke to him at NYC Comic Con years ago. He talked me for like 20 minutes and told me cool stories about working on Matrix and talking with Keanu Reeves at a party afterward. He told me that Keanu asked him if he was the guy who designed the ships used in the movie and Geof was like, yeah? And Keanu was like, "They were super uncomfortable to sit in." Geof was like, "I uh designed the outside mostly..." And then Keanu smiled and told, 'I was just kidding man."

[@firdawesome3203]

That's great, thanks for sharing Tony

[@jcandram]

I like this story!

[@D_Fyre]

I talked to him for a while about his time on The Matrix too! Super nice guy!

[@johnlabry325]

Great story bro

[@vincentbatten4686]

That's great, lol.

[@MiniMikesCustom]

Eds reaction when Geoff asked "Do you think my inking is ok?" I fucking kept going back and laughing 🤣 Yes Mr. Darrow, yes it is

[@Aalborg42]

1:59:44 😂

[@Gootie29]

I had no idea Darrow was such a sweet man. His work is so striking but it intimidates me and I had this fictional version of him in my mind that was scary. Thank you so much for this interview. One of your best so far

[@Bb186fo]

Never knew Kevin in Sin City was modeled after Geof Darrow! Only 10 minutes in and already learning new things! You guys always bringing the heat with the content!

[@GlowingManga]

Yeah! This was the interview I’ve been hoping for my whole life. Seriously they discuss all the things I love, Frank Miller, Moebius, Matrix, Manga, BD - process… this was the one. Geof Darrow… what a legendary talent, what a sweet guy. Kayfabe crew effortlessly pulled off the greatest Darrow interview of all time! The GOATs when it comes to in-depth comic reportage and analysis!

[@WayneSmith]

Peep the Berserk Gutts figure in the bottom right. Nice.

[@Aalborg42]

Been a "fan" of Darrow since about 1985. Still have my old copy of Total Metal (Danish version of Metal Hurlant) from 1985 right here. The one story in it I always loved was ofcourse Bourbon Thret. But that was also the only story I had from him in many many years.. But Bourbon always stuck with me.. When we were playing Worms in the 90ies my team names were almost always Bruce Lee, Cobalt 60, Groucho and ofcourse Bourbon. When "the Internet" started happening I now and again tried to find more Darrow.. but almost always only found a french version or "out of print" things.. My avatars around the net often was Bourbon.. That drawing of him playing the accordion just always thrilled me.. and made me shake my fist against the sky "I WANT MORE BOURBON THRET"!!! I could not believe it when I some months back finally tried to find som Darrow again.. and found Shaolin Cowboy. And then found this channel... When mr. Darrow said that Shaolin Cowboy and Bourbon "it's the same guy" .. it just warmed my old beaten up Heart.. (restarted 2 years ago) 🤣 Thank's for this lovely interview 😍

[@shaneberryhill5800]

What a chronicle you guys are curating for both present and especially future generations of cartoonists and fans. Amazing! Keep up the great work. And thanks.

[@periklisbegzos]

I could listen to this for ten more hours and it still wouldn't be enough. Thanks so much, hope you bring Geof again, soon.

[@skrimshander]

Great interview of a great cartoonist. Love to hear Geof Darrow is still working on his Shaolin Cowboy and look forward to a part 2 near the release time. His stories are gripping, warm, humorous. Jim and Ed bring out the best in your guests.

[@ry5499]

Thank you guys. Thank you Master Darrow.. I listened to this whilst cleaning up the last few pages of colours on my comic. I needed this today stuck in covid lockdown Melbourne. Inspirational and informative. Just what I needed to push on with things.

[@DforDembol]

There's a million things I loved about the interview, but my favourite was the comment about some of the heroes in Asian films looking like regular people. I've always liked how Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh or even Jackie Chan dressed and looked like people you could pass by on the streets without a second thought, but they did some insane stunts, that to this day would never fly in Hollywood films. Also, I knew that he was hangin' out with some awesome people, but I didn't know that he worked or crossed paths with almost everyone important for the comic book medium and then some.

[@MultiSoulless]

Many thanks to Ed and Jim for bringing these back - what a fascinating, humble guy Darrow is - could go for a part 2!

[@torgersontravis]

He really is a sweet guy for someone who has drawn more pound-for-pound carnage than pretty much anyone else. It’s always the nice ones you need to watch out for, eh? 😆 I love that the beautiful French countryside has a comics legend quietly residing within it, whom works amongst his unmatched collection of toys and manga when he’s not palling around with the unassuming French farmers. Great interview with a living legend!

[@TheJMuise87]

So humbling to listen to Geof speak. One my favourite comic artist and this is the best interview I've seen with him. Really well done guys!

[@darrowjohnson5985]

One of the best shoot interviews in what continues to be the gold standard of comic professional interviews. I was lucky to meet Geoff at a comic con and he was incredibly kind and awesome, we spoke about Westerns, and Kung-fu flicks. He is a hero of mine and it was great spending time in his esteemed company. Thank you guys ; )

[@paulpeartsmith]

I missed these Shoot Interviews and what a way to come back! Brilliant guest, great conversation. Thank you Mr Darrow!

[@makoseda]

Geof Darrow is amazing. The stop motion effect towards the end threw me off when I looked back at the screen. The Mattix is having it’s revenge. lol

[@doomedandconfused411]

@@clubgrubbug same here! It was getting to me and I had to stop watching the clip

[@GoldenChiild]

What a great interview ! I enjoyed every minute of it. Geof is such a cool guy. I met him at the San Diego con many years ago and he was so nice, I bought his Comics and Stories book from him that came with a 'Darrow Magazine' and he drew a really great picture on the inside cover. That Red Room cover with the kids sounded great, too bad he didn't do it. Loved seeing his loose sketch book drawings, wish he would publish a book of them. Thanks guys .

[@thetonycanepa]

Fantastic interview with the most humble legend in comics! I had a great conversation with Geoff a few years back at Emerald City Comic Con about the look of external wiring on buildings throughout Asia, while he kindly drew a dinosaur in my book. He was just as friendly and generous as this conversation. Looking forward to part two!

[@collinxmajor]

1:34:51 "I did smoke Marijuana a few times, and drew while I was doing it and I was convinced I was a genius!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA STRAIGHT KILLED ME!

[@Danimat72]

Thanks for this great interview ! The man is amazing, he does great things in comics and more still he's an humble man- When i first saw Hard boiled i was blown away from just how much stuff and details you could find into one of his panels. Just crazy ! But i also liked the storytelling side, he uses composition to guide your eye actually on the page. I think he's very passionate for what he does, he says "I just want doing comics", he's humble so he minimizes his great talent in doing comics.

[@hcanderson3787]

Great interview with a true legend, thanks so much

[@jackshaw6793]

You can tell Geoff would have gone for another 5 hours... but he wore our boys down. You two split an adderall next time so's we can get a proper studio tour. (Just kidding, gentleman. Fantastic interview as always. Just salty it's over.)

[@MicLitter]

This channel always delivers, thank you so much for this. Love Geoff's work, so detail rich and full of sight gags, easter eggs and technical understanding. You can stare at a single panel all day. I find he's also a very approachable guy with a lot of interesting stories and connections to some of the most influentual creative forces of my generation. Was grinnin from ear to ear watching this.

[@briansalazar7397]

I like how he has books as extra support for the infrastructure of his house!🤩👌😸

[@stratisphere40hz]

Great guy to listen to! Always a pleasure to see you guys chat!

[@adamdavies6776]

Just got off an online talk with Geof and he was talking Kayfabe up and recommending it! Such a lovely human!

[@mcfoodstamp]

I also remember an interview with Frank Miller about how he was pissed that Sam Rami ripped off the hole in the head cover for Hard Boiled for one of his shots in The Quick and the Dead. He mentioned Rami working for Dark Horse at some point and how movies in general always take from comics without crediting them.

[@erikcjones]

Incredible interview! I could listen to him talk for hours and hours!

[@ErwinPapa]

Can you have him on every week? Haha! He's a always a great interview

[@thedittycommittee]

so much gold. love when he talks about phones and scissors and car undercarriages and the importance of actually drawing things.

[@MrSamfonseca]

One amazing story after another! Incredible interview!

[@hengkoklee4691]

Not surprise that the video goes weird after so much awesome after 2 hours + mark when Akira was mentioned the 2nd time! Great interview!

[@primabrachii]

Peak KZbin. No words; the Picasso of comics meets the genre's ultimate ambassadors (and top talent in their own right). What a gift!

[@amirmalekpour4316]

So humble - love this man

[@ChuckArnold1]

If anyone wants to see the John Wick poster, the Original art is up on comic art fans.

[@poweramulets1725]

Incredible! Great interview. This guy is legendary.

[@cynophobia]

Random comment here: i’ve been drawing a comic book for the past couple of hours and this is the 3rd staight kayfabe interview i’ve listened to. Thank you guys for keeping me company. This is the first time i’ve listened to a darrow interview and he sounds like such a sweet guy. Definitely not the picture I had in my head when I was seeing his comics as a kid. Hell, I didn’t even know he was an american because his worked looked so different from the american comics i was reading back then.

[@vapidvices8982]

A master. I have EVERY single one of his books! My entire art style is just me ripping him off. AMITOUFU Edit: REPRINT BOURBON THRET

[@Jameswindsorsmith]

Where can we check your work out? Do we know you on Facebook?

[@ValadeCartoonist]

Man, what a spectacular shoot! I had hoped one was is the cards, and you guys did not disappoint! Never ceases to amaze me how some of the most incredible artists don’t fully understand just how incredible their work is. Or to have that much history with so many other legendary creators, and think people DON’T wanna hear them talk about their experiences lol I understand where they’re coming from, but it still blows me away regardless. Thanks for this one guys 🤘💀🤘

[@jrhickey632]

Omg!!! 3h shoot interview! Thank you!

[@kinketsu9103]

Golden Kayfabe, incredible discussion, such an interesting person to listen to, so amazing to find him so humble as just a regular comic fan from the early 90s I knew nothing about his personality, just his artwork. Really good to have this back and see nice cartoonists chatting it up with each other and appreciating each other. A real feel good video for me I will be going back to.

[@the_flushjackson]

Excellent discussion and what a pleasure getting to listen to Mr. Darrow talk about his experiences and the craft. Thank you for putting this together and taking the time to make it another epic Shoot interview for the books.

[@Epik_Comixz_Drew]

SO SICK I LEGIT JUST FOUND THE FIRST 2 ISSUES OF HARD BOILED THIS MORNING AT THE SWAPMEET !!!!

[@amirmalekpour4316]

I love this!!!!! Thank you!! I love Geof Darrow! Some fellow kayfabers and I were talking about Geof last night while zooming & drawing!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@LECITIZENTEN]

Oh man what a great listening experience. So many epic stories! Best 2 hrs 50 min I’ve spent in a while, thanks!

[@kamikawakak]

I had the absolute pleasure of talking to Geof multiple times in Chicago when my brother and I were trying to get going in indie comics (I'm sure he does not remember us, he was always so busy, and always drawing, but made time to talk to all.) Geof is so generous with his time, a fount of knowledge, a great and fun storyteller, and a true artistic genius. This interview brought back a ton of great memories. Thanks a ton Kayfabe, you've done it again, and thanks Geof for past conversations and this one, here's to more Kayfabe interviews!

[@tjosterable]

Holy shit balls! You guys just made my day. Thank you.

[@LarryKingUndead]

Great shoot interview with Geof, I met him at Heroes Con twice, first time he had some art for sale, extremely reasonable, got a Rusty the Boy Robot piece that was wonderful, still treasure it today. Second time picked up his sketchbook, and while I was leaving he was helping out Ramona Fradon, what a upstanding guy.

[@AndrewGordonMacpherson]

Thank you for this. Incredible artist and inspirational discipline.

[@peybak]

Can't wait to listen to this one. I got introduced to his amazing work through Hard Boiled.

[@nikolaosfinizio]

The animator Geoff is talking about towards the end must be Masaaki Yuasa, director of "Mind Game", "Ping Pong" (adapted from Matsumoto's manga), "Devilman Crybaby" and a lot of other cool stuff.. He's got an unmistakable style, incredible to learn he worked on the shaolin temple sequence!

[@jcandram]

I went to a signing for hard boiled with Geoff and Frank, Geoff would was having tons of conversations as drawing little sketches in everyone books. I wish at the time I had better things to talk to with Frank Miller but I was nervous. At the Sin City signing I did a little better. They were both pretty cool and had fun.

[@cgiddinge3019]

This is amazing. It is so awesome to finally learn a little about his process.

[@MrEdWeirdoShow]

Guess I missed something about that discussion of graphite-graying/lightbox. Simple way to keep the original pencils untouched and still get a great dark ink result is to xerox the pencils from the get go on whatever kind of paper you want. Then fire up the lightbox and directly ink those xeroxed pencils.

[@supermun2]

There's so much to unpack here, this was such a joy to listen to! Geof has been one of my favourite artists since the first time I laid eyes on that oversized Big Guy trade and it's always been so wonderful to hear how humble he is in interviews. One interesting point that popped out to me was about how Otomo had been able to rework Akira into a more perfected mould after doing the movie by finishing off the book. It's something I've always loved about Otomo and that work in particular and I thought it might be interesting to note that Miyazaki did exactly the same thing with Nausicaa. They both started the Manga versions of each piece in 1982 and after doing the movie in 1984 Miyazaki also worked through on expanding the story in the Manga version of Nausicaa until 1994. An interesting parallel between two titan creators.

[@DrDoomPool]

Cant wait for more shaolin cowboy! Gotta have Geoff back on!

[@greeprim8174]

What a fascinating interview! I think this is my favorite of the many amazing interviews on this channel. You guys are doing a great service to humanity! I can't wait for Geof's new books to come out!

[@scottroth602]

I met Geof in Chicago around 91/92 and I saved a ton of money to buy art and when I got to his table he had all those Hard Boiled drawings there all cut up and I was really confused by it. Not to mention those were 3/4 times the price of what other guys were selling a full page for so I passed. Deep regrets now haha.

[@thevasic]

Such a great interview...I really enjoyed it...and please get Geof to follow up on showing some of that animation if possible!

[@perryevel]

amazing interview! loved it ..thanks 💓

[@SMDROID99]

Geoff: "Do you think my inking is ok?" Ed: "Are you kidding?" That had me dying laughing. This is nearly 3 hours of amazing content. Ed and Jim knew how to let the guest ramble and Geoff spills out so many great stories because of it. I'm so grateful for what Ed and Jim did and it always makes me happy to find videos like this in their library. I wouldn't be able to appreciate comics the way I do if it wasn't for these two.

[@seannyhan2254]

What an amazingly sweet, sensitive, humble man. Thank you, this interview was beautiful.

[@pontosfathompress]

Great to see Geof Darrow and hear all his amazing stories, about Otomo, Jordorowsky, Miller, Moebius. I remember my jaw hanging open when I bought hardboiled. Ed and Jim you guys are class - and the hosts with the most. Shoot rules.

[@Campionpascal]

so so so good!! I love how much respect he has for you guys too. ( and I have to say, I agree with him) Fantastic interview. Thank you for this Jim and Ed

[@gabrieljimenez9762]

Fucking Christ, what a cool and generous guy. His original art is HUGE! On such large pieces of paper. So beautiful. gorgeous. His art only makes sense that he draws it so large to get all of that detail. Fantastic!

[@tnperkins4art]

Such a wonderful interview!

[@jasongeorge6817]

Thanks for this interview. What a gift!

[@therealVintonTHeuck]

Fascinating interview with such a great artist! Thanks for posting

[@WestCoastDAVEngers]

Such a great Interview, Darrow is so humble and a master at what he does. The glitching on the end of this video makes me feel like I'm doing all the drugs...again

[@EmmanuelFilteau]

Crazy how much he think he bothers people. I would be so grateful only to have a chance to discuss comic with him. So much knowledge and insights, thank you so much for this interview.

[@mellamonestor]

I think this is the best of your interviews. Or at least my favorita Such. a pleasure listening to geoff speak for more than two hours!

[@popfuntoplay]

Fantastic interview.

[@TheBump45]

Awesome interview lads keep em coming. Looking forward to the red room variant.

[@DrDoomPool]

Awesome interview! Love Darrow so much. Best comic channel ever!

[@benmclaughlin6854]

Great interview. I was so excited when Geof brought up Vaughn Bode.

[@rockinyou2001]

What a man! Love this interview, thanks! By the way check your uploaded file. From 2h 25m the video starts weirdly jarring

[@hectorgomezrioja5927]

absolute epic interview!

[@kirtburdick]

This interview gave me a bit of hope for the human race. Geof is a stellar artist and a stellar guy. Fantastic job all around!

[@fireboy312002]

I was lucky to meet Mr. Darrow in Japan. He is such an amazing artist and one of the nicest guys. We are so lucky to have his overtop violence!

[@bechtholdillustrator9378]

2:23:36 Probably alot of artists can relate to this,its interesting to me how creative people are so often surrounded by the exact opposite of people.Kinda same for me. Really love his studio,great interview as always

[@professorlaser7132]

fuckin a, boys. another absolute gift from the kayfabe crew. muchas gracias!

[@allluckyseven]

There's this tool for drawing perspective lines called a Centrolinead. James Gurney talks a bit about it in his blog.

[@poisonelvis]

watched 3 times, paused it every time at 2:01:08 to just look at his table lit up with page on it. awesome guys !!! thanks soo much!!

[@retrovideos1445]

Amazing interview. Thanks guys

Yes! Awesome, excited about this one!

[@WilliamSchafer]

Awesome episode!

[@dwaynemuth8775]

Great interview,guys! Waiting a long time for a deep look at Geoff Darrow! I’ve been following his amazing work since Hard Boiled! Have my originals & trade! Really wish that there was more Big Guy and Rusty! Shaolin Cowboy is like an acid trip! Love the gd creative effort Geoff puts into his work! So original! Binge watching you guys! Thanks!

[@blueskyexpo]

Geof mentioned the old Japaneze Zatoichi samurai movies. These are great movies you can find on KZbin.

[@plateoshrimp9685]

Using the Sears catalog for reference is pure genius

[@daveyc6720]

Such a nice guy and one of the best artists. Always enjoyed talking to him when he is in Toronto. I love my Shaolin Cowboy original. :) The show needs to do a review of the Lead Poisoning book!

[@ericmengel]

Geof is a wonderful human being- great job!

[@benjenkins819]

Before this video I knew very little about Geof Darrow. Now I know Geof Darrow is cool as fuck.

[@vicomtepourfendeur]

He comes off as such a nice person ! Damn I'd like to see that John Wick's poster !

[@ketamu5946]

Super nice one!!!! Thanks guys!

[@pjpugh2526]

Geof Darrow is one of my biggest influences as an artist, I model my style off of Darrow's work, all time fav artist. It must have been great to talk to him

[@gijsbrecht1000]

Fantastic interview. What a treat, guys.

[@bingobrigade]

Incredible. What a life and what an artist.

[@the_flushjackson]

Pumped for the return of The Shoot