After funding the The Only Living Boy #1 last year through Kickstarter, it was a while before David Gallaher and Steve Ellis (High Moon, Box 13) brought digital copies to ComiXology–but when they did, it outperformed expectations, taking the #1 slot on the ComiXology bestseller list that week and outselling Big Two titles and high-profile indies.The series’ second issue is expected to bow at San Diego Comic Con International in July, while the pair work on a number of both creator-owned and work-for-hire works around it (and Gallaher tells us he wants Earth 2 over at DC, remember).Gallaher joined ComicBook.com to talk about the series’s success and where to go from here.ComicBook.com: You guys seem to have always had a good deal of success building a rep online. Has that translated to digital sales?David Gallaher: Yes. We are thrilled with how High Moon, Box 13, and The Only Living Boy have done over the last few years. The Only Living Boy was one of the top selling comics during the first week of May — outselling Injustice, Spider-Man, Avengers and more. That’s a great feeling.ComicBook.com: There’s about a hundred different ways that this book couldn’t be more different from Y: the Last Man, but with that title, have you got anybody confused yet?Gallaher: Not with Y: The Last Man so much … but there are some folks who seemed to think we were making a riff off of Kamandi … and that’s not really true either. The whole ‘only survivor’ concept echoes through hallowed halls of science fiction. The book is inspired by old pulps — like Jungle Book, Flash Gordon, Killraven, John Carter, Tarzan, A Boy and his Dog, and I Am Legend. That’s it really … similar starting point, radically different direction.
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