Eric Trautmann
Monday, May 19th, 2008 running time 03:18
Greg Rucka's wingman on Checkmate Eric Trautmann is a real person, and not a bad writer in his own right.
Eric Trautmann's name appeared suddenly as a co-writer on Greg Rucka's excellent Checkmate series. We track down the man, and find out where he came from and that he's planning on sticking around comics for a while, and making a name for himself
Highlights
video game
(
0:33, 0:33
)
intellectual property
(
0:34, 0:34
)
perfect dark
(
0:39, 1:18, 0:39, 1:18
)
fuzzier
(
2:13, 2:13, 2:13, 2:13
)
video game
(
0:33, 0:33
)
intellectual property
(
0:34, 0:34
)
perfect dark
(
0:39, 1:18, 0:39, 1:18
)
fuzzier
(
2:13, 2:13, 2:13, 2:13
)
Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )
" Hey I'm Josh and its drive into a mini today I am here in Seattle with Eric trotman hello."
" I point. I'm you -- the the over the name mysteriously showed up an issue checkmate. So so you. What did the -- on this book where you come from him."
" I gotta check me as a result of flagrantly abusing my position at Microsoft actually. I was part of action as a founding member of the group at Microsoft that attack and their terms -- ties in leveraged video game I intellectual property which meant making crap based on video games. And when perfect dark rolled around it was on my desk -- things to do when they're going to -- novels. He said while we should you know they asked who has touched you the novels right. Send them a list Greg rocket sent it back. They said okay we get that you want and can you give us a longer list it's okay -- sending this back at his name written on it and times. Any. Agreed to -- graciously answer we worked really closely together novels. And I during the process of that yeah I at least at one point. Hey we should work on something together and -- year like I'll listen I don't know if I have time. Well -- I was. At that point he was also in addition to doing the second. Perfect dark novel -- doing 52 so my time was not nearly as much of an issue understandably. And we -- there is that this creator owned pulled two fisted thing we wanted to do and that he got you know swamped by 52 an instant when they can randomly when it's too we're going to check. Okay and the rest as they say is history that. Yeah -- That that was how I got the gig that in. I think I have some incriminating photos somewhere. How does that work technically I mean you guys plotted out together and then. Initially yes I mean it started is is a pretty we we were some pretty detailed outlines that we we break each issue down to specific beats and literally build huge budget you get you cages for this I get three pages for that of course trade pages sometimes. By the end as we got them wherever rhythm kind of started from very detailed outlines against fuzzier and fuzzier and ended up with -- telling John LTV editor don't trust us it'll be great and and yeah I was mote mostly in August and in -- garage going party got more comic work on the horizon stuff coming out yeah. I have no idea what a -- about. Not at. I'm doing a final crisis try and we dragged. As far as I know. Yeah. There's a web comic project that I'm developing a brain injure or. Journal and I have. A little story in the upcoming pop gun -- into called wide awake that I can talk about. Supernatural. Adventure horror thing."
" Yet nothing to assert it. That's a that's a really good way to break in the comics then arrested this to be friend one of the best writers that they've got going there are some good work and then make myself indispensable to yes. Iowa thanks so much if if you want to go and -- more you got them what not comic governor vision three dot com slash -- envoy for more videos thank you very much."
" Hey I'm Josh and its drive into a mini today I am here in Seattle with Eric trotman hello."
" I point. I'm you -- the the over the name mysteriously showed up an issue checkmate. So so you. What did the -- on this book where you come from him."
" I gotta check me as a result of flagrantly abusing my position at Microsoft actually. I was part of action as a founding member of the group at Microsoft that attack and their terms -- ties in leveraged video game I intellectual property which meant making crap based on video games. And when perfect dark rolled around it was on my desk -- things to do when they're going to -- novels. He said while we should you know they asked who has touched you the novels right. Send them a list Greg rocket sent it back. They said okay we get that you want and can you give us a longer list it's okay -- sending this back at his name written on it and times. Any. Agreed to -- graciously answer we worked really closely together novels. And I during the process of that yeah I at least at one point. Hey we should work on something together and -- year like I'll listen I don't know if I have time. Well -- I was. At that point he was also in addition to doing the second. Perfect dark novel -- doing 52 so my time was not nearly as much of an issue understandably. And we -- there is that this creator owned pulled two fisted thing we wanted to do and that he got you know swamped by 52 an instant when they can randomly when it's too we're going to check. Okay and the rest as they say is history that. Yeah -- That that was how I got the gig that in. I think I have some incriminating photos somewhere. How does that work technically I mean you guys plotted out together and then. Initially yes I mean it started is is a pretty we we were some pretty detailed outlines that we we break each issue down to specific beats and literally build huge budget you get you cages for this I get three pages for that of course trade pages sometimes. By the end as we got them wherever rhythm kind of started from very detailed outlines against fuzzier and fuzzier and ended up with -- telling John LTV editor don't trust us it'll be great and and yeah I was mote mostly in August and in -- garage going party got more comic work on the horizon stuff coming out yeah. I have no idea what a -- about. Not at. I'm doing a final crisis try and we dragged. As far as I know. Yeah. There's a web comic project that I'm developing a brain injure or. Journal and I have. A little story in the upcoming pop gun -- into called wide awake that I can talk about. Supernatural. Adventure horror thing."
" Yet nothing to assert it. That's a that's a really good way to break in the comics then arrested this to be friend one of the best writers that they've got going there are some good work and then make myself indispensable to yes. Iowa thanks so much if if you want to go and -- more you got them what not comic governor vision three dot com slash -- envoy for more videos thank you very much."








