Two Geeks talking about Comics, Creativity and Pop Culture with Tredel the Comic God
Tredel the Comic God (Sick name btw) is a freelance creative who has been designing logos, posters and creating comics ever since he was in high school. He joins me on the podcast to talk about a range of topics such as pop culture, the creative process, our fears, comics and storytelling.
I enjoyed this episode and I know you will do too.
One of my favourite aspects of this conversation was hearing about Tredel’s growth as a creative. He talks about the first inspirations that led him to draw and create art. As he looks back on his work for previous work for inspiration and to understand where he’s coming from. I think being able to reflect upon your previous work can be beneficial in many ways. We can see how far we’ve come and how our skills have developed. This can be especially helpful when you’re feeling crappy about your work or progress. We often forget how far we’ve come. So having time to reflect and look back can be so useful.
Obviously, I loved talking about pop culture and comics. We talk about some of our favourite shows and tv characters. He mentioned Future trunks who I have no idea who this character was. However, dragon ball z was the start of his creative journey. He questioned how animation was created and the process behind it. I like how as a child he was thinking about these things. Lord knows my brain wasn’t thinking about the process behind power rangers and Ben 10.
We talked about a series he was doing called black superheroes on YouTube, whereby he highlights some of his favourite black superheroes. I love this…. One there are so many black superheroes which should be highlighted like black panther, storm, black lightning and John Stewart. Some of these superheroes would have been role models for young black children that never saw themselves in comics and tv. So, I liked this idea…
Also, we talked about his black excellence series which he displayed art about African Gods. I wasn’t even aware of some African Gods. I knew about the Egyptian Gods but wasn’t aware of other mythologies. Is this because of media being whitewashed or just a lack of knowledge? It could be both, but I think it is important to be shown a range of different cultures and stories too.
Here are some of his art pieces and information about other African Gods
Here are some links to AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY GODS:
