You have been
writing the lyrics for your bands for many years but what made you write a
graphic novel?
I have been writing
stories most of my life. when fear factory began, i was given an opportunity to
wrote my sci-fi stories in to the album. yes, i have been writing lyrics,
however the lyrics are also part of the story. when i sit down to complete the
story after the album has been completely recorded, i use the lyrics as an
outline to create the main story. in the album obsolete is the story/screenplay
that reads along with the lyrics. i wrote a story for digimortal, but i did not
like it. it was too matrix. i did not try to actually write another story for
an album until The Industrialist. the concept of the album and lyrics
presented me with another great opportunity to create a new world.
What’s the plot of The Industrialist?
This story takes
place in the near future. A dystopia corrupted by oligarchs. The protagonist is
an automaton called The Indutrialist. Through experiences and memory retention
it has become sentient. The antagonist, The
Creator, has scheduled The Industrialist's model to be collected and removed
for disassembly. The Industrialist has grown a following of other, similar
automatons to seek out the creator in order to not be disassembled, to prolong
their existence.
