BBCAMERICA.COM: So these two men, Tommy Lee Edwards and Trevor Goring, they'd been working on comics before, right?

CAROLE: Oh yes, in fact, if you Google them, you'll find their bibliography, but both of them at the time were working on big Hollywood movies. Working on CGI stuff or pre-production drawings. In fact, I'm pretty sure Tommy Lee Edwards was just working on Jack Black's movie, Gulliver Travels or something like that. Their credentials are not just with Marvel Comics and comics and graphic novels. I think Trevor Goring has done a graphic novel himself. They're just really good artists. Since they were fans, we thought we could encourage them to work with us fairly quickly. The time that we had to get this comic up and running was a much shorter turnaround than you tend to have. So John and I started to think, now, ok, we got the artists, we need a story!

We had some things that we had done when we were on the set together. A lot of times, if there was any down time, we'd play some games like, "How would Captain Jack get out of this circumstance?" "Or if Captain Jack were stuck here, what would he do to get out?" Games like that. We brainstormed for a while on where we would like Jack to be and what would be his circumstance. John really wanted to somehow have Jack go to Scotland. Then, I remembered that I had written a short story a little while ago about the tale of the Selkie, and John remembered it and said, "Why don't we adapt that? Since we have such limited time, let's adapt your short story and make it a Captain Jack tale." And we went from there!



BBCAMERICA.COM: Did you have to consult with Russell T. Davies or anyone behind the scenes at Torchwood before doing this?

CAROLE: I did not and I don't believe John had to, but we did have to do a lot licensing checks and [it happened] a number of times in the process - early on with storyboarding, and then when I did the scene-by-scene outline of the story, and then the panels, and then [when] I wrote the script. Of course, John was involved much more in the brainstorming and initial idea part of it and then the artists took over towards the last part and the various stages of that process. I think Martin at Titan was the person who really shepherded us through all that, and so I am sure he was the one who connected them with all the licensing. The BBC did have approval.

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