Music was definitely how I defined myself for a long time.
Is music an important part of your life? What are some of your favorite albums or your current jams? Every opener was some local teens who didn’t know how to play their instruments. Slug Riot would never work with a competent band. What kind of bands would have opened up for Slug Riot during their 10 years of touring the world? What’s up with the blue gunk dripping out of Slug Riot’s ear? But more than a specific sound, moldcore is about self-destructing out loud. It has Yuck, Mclusky, Melt-Banana, Tobacco, Flying Saucer Attack, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Westkust, Japandroids, and Lightning Bolt. I made a moldcore playlist to get me in the mood when writing. It’s a fuzzed-out, erratic, loud mess, and if it doesn’t result in something getting damaged, then you aren’t doing it right. Stylistically, it reflects noise rock with some garage, shoegaze, and punk. Slug Riot is the founder of moldcore, a music scene he started in his boring hometown 10 years ago. As Vonnegut wrote, all this happened, more or less.Ĭan you explain the musical genre you’ve dubbed as “moldcore”? We were so bad that the band teacher wouldn’t let us play the school talent show. I was in an awful punk band with my friends in 8th grade. He’s also a reflection of my love for weird music subgenres.Īre there real-life inspirations for the colorful characters in Slug Riot?Įvery character is me. The current series is very different than that original pilot-different story, different characters-but Slug Riot himself is the exact same. For my grad school thesis, I wrote and storyboarded a 15-minute pilot about him. I fell in love with the idea of a character who’s just always emotionally extreme. Slug Riot was a character I created for a comic in 2012 about being hardcore and crying. What’s the story of Slug Riot and its creation? I do some limited animation for personal projects, but that’s about it. Making Our New Electrical Morals for Cartoon Hangover back in 2013 was my first big project. Storyboarding is just comics, so that’s how I learned to do that. I went to college for writing, so all of my drawing experience was for comics for my college newspaper. I doodled throughout school and made a few animations with the default movie maker on my computer, but I first started drawing regularly in high school when I’d submit shirt designs to Threadless. Meet Mike Rosenthal, the creator of Slug Riot! We asked him about life and his new series on Cartoon Hangover featuring an overly-dramatic guitarist, a spunky moldcore rocker-to-be, and a goblin/man hybrid that’s inevitably going to become your favorite character.
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