Not to shake things up by sharing comics gossip, but if you’ve spent more than two seconds on the comics internet or within DC comics circles over the last decade, there’s a good chance you might have heard of this guy named Mitch Gerads. With an art style that took the scene by storm combining mid-century style and a dynamic new kind of digital feel, it’s an easy sell that Gerads is one of the most unique of the comics mainstream in the contemporary age. But where does that come from? And for that matter, where does the spark of ingenuity stem from when an artist is harking on halcyon days of art marketing past?

Popverse was fortunate to sit down with Gerads at his table at Fan Expo San Francisco to discuss how the mainstream can come to accept such a bygone era of