The experience of writing the Minions screenplay for Illumination has really helped me with Monster Motors. What are the differences between writing for film and comics? Do you have a specific creative process for both?īL: It's the same in terms of character and arc, you want to have the characters grow throughout the course of the story, you want audiences to like them, to be afraid for them, etc. Monster Motors has been the most fun and rewarding job I've had in the Fun Bunk yet.ĬM: Brian, you've worked on many different films and comics throughout your career, from Angel comics to films like Puss in Boots. It all felt like it was leading to this job with this…guy? I guess? And these characters. So I started there, eventually graduated to writing Transformers (notable hardy perennial Last Stand Of The Wreckers with James Roberts) ,stopped off on some Doctor Who on the way, then more recently Marvel, with a mini-stint on New Warriors and a stab at Death's Head. My deets mainly consisted of frenzied renderings of robots, and luckily IDW had just acquired the Transformers license.

A writer friend called Dave Hendrick passed on my deets to Chris Ryall, EIC of IDW. I climbed in the Fun Bunk (common term for 'Comics Industry' here in Ireland) nearly ten years ago. It was more the vertiginous fear of having to do anything else. NR: There was never the Eureka moment of 'I have to do THIS'. The doctors and nurses didn't seem to get the joke but I like to think it moved them to seek out INSPECTOR GADGET on, then I think probably VHS, and now they appreciate it.

In fact, that's what I said while it was sobbing and spurting blood in the emergency room, 'this, this, this, is like Inspector OW Gadget, OH MY GOD, r-r-right?'. A cat food can lid sliced through the thumb of my drawing hand, damaging the nerve, and I thought 'okay, maybe just writing then, very good.' When it happened, it flipped back, like Inspector Gadget's thumb lighter. Was there a moment in your life where it hit you, 'I have a knack for creating, writing, illustrating etc.'?īL: I always wanted to be a screenwriter, but I also wrote and drew comics, loved doing it…but then I had an accident with my drawing hand.

CM: Tell me a little bit about how you got started in the industry.

Monster Motors by Brian Lynch