The Who

Talking Comics with Tim: Mike Dawson

Mike Dawson's Freddie & Me ranked on many Best of 2008 lists. It looks like he's trying to capitalize on his elevated creative profile--given that the upcoming Previews (out on January 28) will include Dawson's upcoming work for AdHouse, Ace-Face: The Mod with the Metal Arms ("a collection of stories . . . featuring everybody’s favorite well-dressed crime fighter, doling out super-powered justice with his bionic limbs, and handling crisis’s at home as a husband and father.")

Ace-Face: The Mod with the Metal Arms

In addition to discussing Ace-Face, we delve into Freddie & Me. But that's not all, as starting February 17, Dawson is returning to ACT-I-VATE with Jack and Max Escape From the End of Time, a webcomic spinning out of the Ace-Face universe. My thanks to Alex Robinson for facilitating this email interview as well as Dawson for his time and thoughts.

Ace-Face

Tim O'Shea: How much of the Ace-Face book consists of flashbacks to his childhood and how much of is it "present day" adventures?

Mike Dawson: The stories take place in a variety of different times over the course of Ace-Face’s career. A good chunk of the stories happen in close-to present day, but there are a number of flashbacks. We see his origin as a little kid with gigantic metal arms in the 1940’s and 50’s, a little bit of his mod hey-day in the 1960’s, and some of his latter-day adventures as well.