DECEMBER ISSUE 2025 INTERVEW

QUESTIONS BY GREG H JAMZ PODCAST MIX

Hi Emmett Magazine! Hello Greg!

I have few questions to ask you! Cool!

How did you get started creating your magazine?

I started by writing my characters for my own Comic Hero’s since I was a kid. I didn’t see myself reflected anywhere in the super-hero world and decided at the age eight to do something about it, if only for myself. In those days, my goal was like the young guys who created Superman, to put an action adventure character into the world, and before that happened the thought was to sell your great idea to a Comic Book Company. I went that route, and I was rejected by both DC and Marvel, personally by Stan Lee! LOL. He did say that he enjoyed my story-telling ability, but frankly I only wanted to illustrate the comics, so I wrote them to be memorable so I wouldn’t forget why I was drawing them. I worked like 11 years on my comic art by then age 16 and Stan wrote me a rejection letter, telling me to try again in 10 years, when my abilities were on the level of his Marvel Artists like John Romita, John Buscema, and of course the great Jack Kirby!

That wasn’t going to happen.

Being a smoker then, I lit the edges of those rejection letters and continued writing my characters, no longer wanting to be in a position to be rejected. I decided my f’n self-esteem needed for me to be the Boss at all times.

I wrote stories, and penciled and inked/colored every page for years and years. Then after a couple years of college, I started showing in galleries, and the realistic work to modern art took off and had not had a chance to look back. But always continued reworking and adding over 5 decades.

CAPTAIN ZERO THE WORLD’S GREATEST SUPER-HERO!I CREATED HIM IN 1975 BUT DIDN’T WRITE STORIES UNTIL 1979. REJECTED BY DC & MARVEL COMICS.

My magazine happened after a period of being celebrated and or covered constantly by press, and then I decided to create my own magazine. I realized I didn’t want to depend on, if and when the Press would show up, and planned ahead, wrote all the checks and became the Boss.

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I and other Artists had no publication that were for us that lasted.

Your local Newspapers do a fine job most of the time, as well as here today gone tomorrow magazines. However what is needed, is more.

We at EMMETT MAGAZINE are entering our sixth year! We have consistently done our jobs, even in the face of boycotts of our famous printer Amazon. Frankly speaking, boycotts are not going to hurt the robots whom their company has replaced those hardworking humans he replaced them with. What boycotts will successfully do is quicken the end of anybody wanting to inform the public of what’s happening in the world, and if I continue to spend my own money to bring it to you and you make doing it harder ask yourself how long you would continue doing a basically thankless job. In short I will find btter things to do with my money.

As for the Arts and Artists we write about, a lot is to undo hundreds of years of what the public hears about our roles as creative people, are often stereotypical, because they have not had enough exposure to creatives.

So my magazine introduces opportunities to the reader to learn directly about Creatives from us.

What’s the culture of the EMMETT MAGAZINE?

We do what we do because we know culture itself is at stake. We document all we can. Our goal is to become a doorway of literal insight into the creative person. The current news organizations are a few lawsuits away from obliteration. Anchors in the traditional sense are dinosaurs waiting for extinction. I saw it five years ago, and the only ones not wise enough to see their own end were those members of the News Elite as they were the status quo, THEN.  Now they are either retired, forced out of their jobs for having too much melanin in their attitudes, and replaced by non-threatening spineless jellyfish who will not provoke or speak truth to power, ever.

The People will fill the void. Those not showing up for a dollar. They will be the ones to turn the cameras on, and keep them informed on what’s really happening. We could do more when we get more contributors, but we are growing as fast as we can, We started out only focusing on Arts & Entertainment voids, we felt needed an insider’s viewpoint. For now, will use our influence to keep those we cover in the news, and in the pubic eye, as much as we can.  

Any differences between EM and other magazines?

A lot of other magazines focus mostly on the beautiful models, famous for basically nothing personalities, flavor of the month Actors/Actresses and the ‘who gives a flip’ materialistic rich. We cover plenty of Models, but we require more out of them than showing up pretty as a rule. We want to hear their story, we want to know if there is anything else to them, and if they have ideas and experiences that a new Model can benefit from, especially if they have overcome anything and came back stronger and wiser. We have had models who were raised in orphanages and become successful, that is beyond mere beauty, we have had Male Models who started like everyone else, and are now CEOs, I read stories about Artists and Musicians and knew age 8 that would personally talk to them and get their stories first hand.

When I had nothing else to lose, I bet on my visions and beliefs.

I have no ideas that I haven’t tried.

I had always designed logos since age seven I was obsessed with the Superman logo…I couldn’t sleep until I could figure out why it was compelling, so I drafted it over, and over I saw cubist paintings by Marcel Duchamp and immediately wanted to take it apart…so I studied it for months.

It just seemed like those two images, 1 from comics, and the other from modern art were the keys to everything, and I realized that was what I wanted to do via a publication, that being to peel back the layers and study what is beyond surface level beauty, and materialistic success from self-made folks. There really is no such thing as self-made Anything, as one has to have enormous people skills and actual people to carry out even competent ideas/concepts for so-called success to happen. A huge difference is that I can and sometimes do all of the jobs my magazine requires, and I routinely vet each and every contributor, and often choose Models I want after observing their work ethics over a year or more. We only compete with ourselves. We choose our direction and we go in it until we hit a brick wall. Then we go through the wall.

What are your goals for the magazine?

We are working towards being an actual news organization, we are gaining experience now by interviewing all types of creatives, from Artists from Designers, and behind the scenes people who don’t regularly have a voice or outlet to be seen, as to me, you cannot be a so called Star without Photogs capturing your image and Publishers printing actual books to be passed around in public, make-Up/Hair Stylists making you look like a million, so you can get a million.

-EMMETT ARDIE WILLIAMS