{"id":1373,"date":"2016-03-23T20:56:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T00:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2016-03-24T08:16:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T12:16:30","slug":"dara-naraghi-and-brent-bowman-creators-of-persia-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=1373","title":{"rendered":"Dara Naraghi and Brent Bowman: creators of Persia Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PersiaBlues2\"<\/a>-Andy Ross<\/p>\n

This past December, local graphic artists Dara Naraghi and Brent Bowman released Persia Blues Volume 2: Love and War<\/a> on independent publisher NBM. The story interweaves ancient Persian mythology with the story of young Minoo Shirazi coming to The Ohio State University for graduate school. I spoke with Naraghi and Bowman<\/a> for Craft on WCBE.<\/p>\n

Andy Ross: Tell me a little about your collaborative process. How did you two initially become connected?<\/p>\n

Dara Naraghi: We both were in a group called Panel. It\u2019s kind of a loose collective of writers and artists. That\u2019s where we originally met over ten years ago. Everybody [in Panel] had their own projects that they worked on, but we would also collaborate with each other and publish little comic anthologies twice a year. For the most part, every member of the group had worked with somebody else, except for the two of us. We never really did anything together. I knew his artwork, so when I came up with the idea for the book I thought of him.<\/p>\n

AR: You talked about Panel. Do you think Columbus is conducive to graphic novelists and comic book artists?<\/p>\n

Brent Bowman: Definitely. Columbus has a great arts scene in general, but there\u2019s a really big comics community here.<\/p>\n

AR: Dara, you\u2019ve said that Persia Blues is your most personal work yet. Are there any elements that were drawn directly from your own experiences?<\/p>\n

DN: I wouldn\u2019t say directly, but a lot of them are composites of either my experiences with my parents, my cousins, or friends that I know. A lot of the themes are things that either I\u2019ve experienced personally or just in general. It\u2019s a common experience for Iranian Americans.<\/p>\n

AR: How fully realized was your idea for the whole trilogy going into that first book and has it changed at all since that time?<\/p>\n

DN: It definitely has changed.<\/p>\n

BB: The middle part is always the hardest. You\u2019ve got the beginning and the end, but you have to get there somehow and still make it interesting.<\/p>\n

AR: Any word on Volume 3 yet?<\/p>\n

DN: The idea is to finish it this year. It will probably go on sale in early 2017.<\/p>\n

Persia Blues Volume 2: Love and War is now available in bookstores or online at www.persiablues.com<\/a>. Listen to the full interview on WCBE (90.3) Wednesday, March 16th at 8pm.<\/p>\n

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