Kasie: Hey Brock! Congrats on
your new book, Paper Bag Mask. Can you tell us a little about it?
Brock: I’d rather tell you a lot, but…fine. I’ll be
brief just for you, Kasie. Paper Bag Mask
is a YA Contemporary novel (You ever read that genre? It’s really great.) with
some surprises inside beyond the twists in the story. It’s about Redmond Fairweather,
an invisible nobody at Hamilton High who steals his history teacher’s prized
possession—a stupid wooden sword with rounded edges that will never, ever cut
through anything—“The Whomper.” Redmond has no idea why he stole the Whomper. He guesses his extreme dislike (okay,
hate…so much hate) of Mr. Street, the school’s most celebrated teacher,
probably has something to do with it. To his surprise and delight, the hottest
girl in school, Elodia Cruz, hates him too. Soon, Redmond’s small band of
misfit friends joins up with Elodia and most popular kids on campus to hold the
Whomper for ransom, pull off an elaborate, broad daylight heist to steal
something even bigger from Mr. Street, and expose their teacher for the scumbag
he really is.
Okay, I lied. That wasn’t terribly short. I
feel bad now.
Kasie: No need to feel bad! We love hearing about books. The more the better! But more importantly, my readers will want to know…is there romance in this book?
Brock: I am happy to tell
your readers that there is! Terribly awkward romance that goes sideways and
backwards and triangular and quadrangular and almost seems beside the point as
the plot thickens until it becomes just about the only point that matters at
all. I tried to capture something of my own experience with romance in high
school, which was almost uniformly terribly executed and always, always the
first victim of my insecurities. The main character in Paper Bag Mask doesn’t stumble quite
as badly as I did, but he does stumble. Boy, does he stumble.
Kasie: We like awkward romance. I like any kind of romance. Changing gears here, your MC holds an object for ransom. Now, I want to know, have you ever in your
personal life held an object (or a secret or an idea) for ransom?
Brock: I’m ashamed—delighted?—to
say that I have. Paper Bag Mask takes
its inspiration from the real life Whomper which some friends and I stole from
our history teacher back in high school and really did hold for ransom. It was
a prank that blew up bigger than any of us intended. I like to say about 40% of
Paper Bag Mask is true, but probably
not the parts anyone expects. We made ransom videos, the police got involved,
and I’ll never forget the day at the height of the whole mess when my math
teacher came up to me, shook her head, and said, mournfully, “I just never
thought you would do something like
that.” About broke my heart.
Kasie: What? I didn't know any of that! That makes the story even more interesting. Speaking of interesting, I know you’re the
creator of a webcomic (The SuperFogeys):
AND, I know you have also written and directed some
short films:
SO, what made you decide to write a Young Adult book?
Brock: There’s a snarky
answer here about when you conquer one world you go looking for more worlds to
conquer, but I’m going to resist that temptation (too late) and be honest and
say that I’m lucky to have opportunities to work in the medium that best suits
the material. Sometimes, that’s comics, and sometimes that’s film. And with Paper Bag Mask, it was so clearly a YA
story that telling it this way was the only way that made sense to me. I
thought maybe the publishing industry could make a little room for a story that
is about essentially good kids (all the main characters are Honors students with
no disciplinary records) who do this terrible…maybe righteous?...thing. I’m
encouraged by books and films like the recent To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (which my 16-year-old daughter
insisted I watch with her—and I’m glad she did! It’s really good!) that feature
essentially good kids dealing with their insecurities and the real, emotional
stuff that goes on in high school. I wanted to get into that space and write a
book that I wish I could go back in time and hand off to my 16-year-old self
with confidence. Instead, my daughter got the first copy, which was its own
reward.
Kasie: I loved TATBILB! So much! And you're right, it's so fun to be able to share our creations with our kids. Something else I found really fun about your books was that you were able to use
your skills as a comic book artist in this novel.
How was this experience
different than what you’d done before? What was it like tying together two
things you love?
Brock: Yes, because I just
LOVE to make more work for myself, I put illustrations at the top of every
chapter, and illustrated the ransom videos the kids send to their teacher (just
like my friends and I did) as comics instead of describing them in the text. It
was the best way to tell those parts of the story, though I knew it was very
much an off-the-beaten path thing to do. Taking two aspects of storytelling I
love—prose and comics—and slamming them together has actually been far more
rewarding than I expected. People seem to really like the combo.
Kasie: I am one of those people. I think it's super cool. So, Mr. Super Cool, does that describe your high school self (like the popular kids in the story)? Or were
you more like Redmond (the main character) and his band of misfits from the story?
Brock: Oh, I was so popular. Are you kidding? The kid in
the corner who draws superheroes and monsters all day and fumbles any and all
balls passed to him? The girls ate that up and the jocks wanted to know all
about the nerd rock I listened to daily. (Anyone asks, my Weezer Top 10
playlist is always at the ready.)
Kasie: Ha! I'll let you keep that playlist, although I do enjoy some good throw back tunes. So what is it that you hope
readers will take away from reading your book?
Brock: First and foremost, I
hope they have a good time reading it. This is a heist story through and
through, and like all good heist stories, it saves the best twists for the end.
When the reader gets to that last page I want them to say “Dang, now that was a good ending.” But most
importantly, there are some crucially important, coming-of-age themes at play
and I hope they are able to see enough of themselves in Paper Bag Mask to think and reflect on their own high school
experience, whether it’s current or past.
Kasie: Are you sticking
around in our arena for a while? Do you have more young adult stories in the
works?
Brock: As I mentioned, I move
to the medium that best suits the story, but yeah, I definitely have another YA
story I’d like to tell, one that would be more suited for a series of books that
would be about the tricky transition to post-high school when the whole world
is telling you who you are and who you should be—go to college, get a job,
etc.—and you’re just not sure that’s you. It’s a story I desperately want to
tell.
Kasie: I can't wait to read whatever else you choose to put out after this one. In the mean time, where can we find you
in the online universe?
Brock: My author and blog
site is at brockheasley.com (https://brockheasley.com/), and I have a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/writerbrock/) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/brockheasley). You can see my comics work at superfogeys.com (http://superfogeys.com/) and on Webtoon (https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/the-superfogeys/list?title_no=149351).
Very soon now, my first short film will be making its online debut, but I don’t
have a link for that just yet.
Thank you,
Kasie!
Brock Heasley is a writer and artist who was a member of such prestigious high school organizations as The Nerd Herd, Last Picked for Teams, and They Who Eat Alone. He is the writer and illustrator of the YA novel "Paper Bag Mask," the creator of the online comic "The SuperFogeys," and the award-winning filmmaker behind "The Shift." Brock lives with his wife and three daughters in California where they enjoy Pixar movies, dancing in the living room, and eating breakfast for dinner.
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