The Savage Jim Zub: Official Conan the Barbarian Comics Scribe
This audio interview was conducted by Chris Doucher, Editor-in-Chief, Writer and Comic Panel Moderator for GeekNerdNet. (Image credits to: Jim Zub and GeekNerdNet)
Writer Jim Zub at Calgary Expo 2024 (image credit: Chris Doucher/GeekNerdNet)
Writer, Jim Zub, a mainstay at Calgary Expo throughout the years, sat down with me yet again (at Calgary Expo 2024) to talk about what he has going on comics wise. And my gawd! He has one amazing thing going, and that one thing is: CONAN THE BARBARIAN!!! Correction, two amazing things with the recent launch of the immediate hit: The Savage Sword of Conan, now with issue two on the shelf…if not already sold out. Ahem!.
Zub is the true warrior creative storyteller Conan has been craving for. The amount of people coming into comic shops after MANY years away from collecting, stop by at Zub’s tables at shows and tell him how much they love being back into comics because of the Conan book.
“At Seattle…guys old enough to be my dad or my uncle coming by with sparkles in their eyes: ‘Oh, I haven’t had a pullbox in over 20 years, but I’m back at my comic shop every month.’ Retailers coming by and saying they saw customers they haven’t seen in over a decade who are now back in it because of the Conan book. That is the kind of deepest honour you can imagine…that this book is generational, that it’s got this fan base that is long and loyal.”
Aside from his current work on Conan, Zub talks about the life shift he has now embarked on, with a sabbatical from 20 years of teaching animation at Seneca College (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). The writing projects he has lined up excite him, and he did mention he has a new creator-owned project expected to release sometime in late 2024. And, he’s more than okay to be “just writer guy” for the next little while.
On the creative side of things—when meeting people at shows, he offers up what advice he gives to creative people wanting to either get into comics, or other creative endeavours. The interview is chalk full of awesome. Hit play now and enjoy the full interview with Jim Zub, That’s Zub with a “zed” (Canadian-terminology-knowledge drop), not a “zee.” Cheers to you, Jim!