Hey gang, Jason and Stacey here with another Meltdown exclusive interview for all of you indie title readers out there.  Just saying the title of Emma Caulfield’s newest project out of Lead Pipe Entertainment, “Contropussy,” invokes a small sense of hidden taboo.   Most of you “Whedonites” will remember Emma from her stint as Anya on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” but in her first foray into comics, “Contropussy” shows an entirely different side to Emma’s talent and creativity.

Since her “Buffy” days, Emma has been busy.  She’s not only shown up all over your DVRs in shows ranging from “Private Practice” to “Monk” to “Robot Chicken,” she just completed shooting ten episodes of “Gigantic” for TeenNick which is executive produced by “Buffy” alum Marti Noxon and set to premiere this summer.  And she can currently be seen in the critically-acclaimed indie film “Timer” which can already be seen in Los Angeles and just opened in New York City.  During her down time, Emma has turned her successful “Contropussy” webcomic series into a book filled to the brim with double entendres and stylized kaleidoscopic art.  The “Contropussy” [I admittedly still giggle a bit when I say that, like when I was ten and heard “Woodcock” for the first time – but I digress] graphic novel is the brainchild of Emma and Camilla Rantsen with gorgeous artwork done by Christian Meesey.  We caught up with Emma and the gang as they were preparing to sit down for a signing at Meltdown.  Here’s a peek inside her inspiration and motivation for the “contro”-versial book.

Q. The art on this is amazing!  How did you meet up with Christian?

A. Camilla [Rantsen] and I have been friends and writing partners for years.  We pitched this as an animated project at Disney with Christian Beranek [the president of Lead Pipe Ent.] It was really a long shot – we never really thought Disney would pick up a title called Contropussy; it’s never going to happen.  But he loved it and said ‘there’s a way to build this property through comics.  Do you guys know anything about that?’  No, not at all.  So he introduced us to Christian [Meesey],who as you can see is a brilliant artist.  So I said let’s just try to put this together and see what we can do with it in this format and it took off.  We had a really good time with it. Continue reading »