Johnnie Christmas gets into ‘Gamerville’

Here’s my chat with Johnnie Christmas about his new graphic novel Gamerville, his criticism of AI use for comic book creation, and much more.

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Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Johnnie Christmas is a graduate of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, earning a BFA in Communication Design/Illustration and is also a New York Times Best Selling graphic novelist. His 2022 middle grade graphic novel debut Swim Team earned a spot on the National Book Awards longlist, a Coretta Scott King Award Illustrator Honor, a Barnes & Noble Children’s and YA Book Award nomination, and a Harvey Awards nomination. Johnnie is currently hard at work on two new middle-grade graphic novels for the HarperAlley imprint of HarperCollins. He’s the writer of the Image Comics sci-fi series Tartarus and Crema, a haunted romance published by Comixology. His book Firebug received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and it earned him a Joe Shuster Outstanding Cartoonist nomination. He’s perhaps best known for co-creating the series Angel Catbird with celebrated writer Margaret Atwood and adapting William Gibson’s lost screenplay for Alien 3 into a critically acclaimed graphic novel of the same name. Johnnie’s credits also include co-creating the pre-apocalyptic thriller Sheltered. Joined by collaborators colorist Hilary Jenkins and letterer Chris Dickey, his latest graphic novel is called Gamerville.

The story of Gamerville goes likes this: “Max Lightning has finally qualified for Gamerville, a championship where players compete to be top dog in the multiplayer video game Lone Wolf of Calamity Bay. But his dreams of domination are doomed when his parents send him to Camp Refresh. Gone are the long nights of downing energy drinks and getting copious amounts of screen time. They’ve been replaced with fresh air and group activities under the hot sun—a shock to the system for a lone wolf like Max. Can Max escape Camp Refresh and level up at Gamerville, or has he finally played his last match?”

You can discover more about Johnnie Christmas online at JohnnieChristmas.com and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/johnniexmas

Check out a previous interview with Johnnie about Swim Team.

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