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1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
interviewed by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) faeofluna
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1. Describe for me your idea of a dream house.
Ah, the perfect house. To steal from minds as George Lucas and Chrles Schultz, a sort of ranch set up. I wouldn't want to have like 200 acrews of land or anything, but enough to go exploring and have a little mini-forest, a little lake/pond, a place for maybe horses or something. A half acre or two for a garden. The location would be far enough from a city, but close enough so I can go when needed. I'd probably have the ranch be in suburbia (but while sort of still being seperate from suburbia, if that makes any sense), just so my kids can have the public school and suburban experience. The house itself would be big, but not too big. It would only be big for a few reasons. One, there would be a large studio where I would do all my cartoons and write. I might even set it up so other cartoonists could come in and work there. There would be a HUGE library with so many types of books. And it would include almost every graphic novel known to man. There would also be a media library room with a massive selection of films and an awesome home theatre to watch movies on. A home theatre that would be set up like a mini movie theatre. The kitchen/dining room/living room would be quite a site. Very contemporary and massive and an overtone of homely and timely. The kitchen would have every high-tech piece of kitchen equipment. Problaby large cathedral like ceiliens here, like my home in Pittsburgh. There would be a collection room for all my Star Wars junk. :P The bedrooms would be bigger than average, and would fit the personalities of the inhabitants (aka children, if I ever have any). There would be a playroom just for the kids. There would also be a dome/obserevatory thing on teh top of the house, so I could go stargazing at night. It would be wonderful.
2. Would you rather lose an eye or your hearing? Explain your reasoning.
Oh geez...this one is tricky. Thinking about it, I would rather lose an eye. Because you said "an" eye, that is only one eye in teh singular sense. I'd at least have one eye left. My depth perception would be horrible (aka non-existant) but I could at least hear. I do not think I could live in a world without my hearing. I could not hear music, the sound of laughter, the sound of nature, the sound of a loved one. It would be horrible. With one eye, I could still hear, and I could still do my artwork. I mean, I wouldn't want to lose any of that, obviously, but if I had to, the one eye. Preferably the left.
3. Uh oh. You've had one of those epiphany things again. What have you discovered?
Everything is connected. Everything. And everything is massive and important, for if one connection is lost, everything changes and all the connections have to be realigned. Even all the small supposedly insignificant shit, it is huge in the long run.
4. A major newspaper has picked up your comic idea! Do you abandon school to draw for this paper?
No way. This is based primarily on the fact that the newspaper comic industry is one of the most fucked up things you will ever know about in your life. Even if a paper, or syndicate, agrees to pick up your strip, there is no guarantee that your comic will ever see print or that you will ever make enough money off of it to live off of it. And even if it does get into a few papers, it may never get picked up by other papers and gain popularity. To make a living doing a newspaper comic, you have to be in like 500 papers, and you'll just be getting by. You need to get into the 1000s to make a living doing it, and pray that your characters are merchendizable (where the "real money" in newspaper comics is today, sadly). So it would not be worth it to leave school (which I already invested 60k into thus far) and take a gamble on a not-sure thing. The only way it would be worth it is if I got the Frank Cho treatment. The syndicates wanted him so badly, they waited until he got done with school (nursing school I beleive it was, odd, I know) and offered him a lot of cash insentives. So no, I would not leave school. In comics, newspaper or book or graphic novel, there is never a "sure thing." The industry, financially, is just too weak for there to be a sure thing. I would be flattered and honored if an idea of mine was picked up, but it is not something I could afford to abbandon school for.
5. In what direction would you predict your art heading over the next two years or so?
Oh, this is a very tricky one, because art and the future are so unpredictable. In the past two years my art has been all over the map, and I thank college for that. I am being pulled in all these different directions and I discover new creators and new influences and new heroes and new techniques. And I fucking love it. Lately in my sketchbook, I have been headed in a Robbert Crumb-esque dirrection, letting my inner preversions out onto the page. PDicks, boobs, and pussy all over and these insane monsters saying horrible things. I think my storytelling keeps moving into more personal space. I keep slowly putting more of my neck out on the line and becoming less of a closed book in my art. So I think my storytelling is headed there. I am putting more of myself into it and telling stories that normal people would keep secret and not even tell their close loved ones. As for style...yikes. I can't say. I think it is becoming more organic slowly? We are going to start using a brush to ink in my materials and tech class, and if I can get the hang of that, I think my style is going to jump ahead ten spaces. Also, I am planing a local SCAD based iron man challange, doing a comic everyday for a year. And I know some people who have done that in teh past, and just by doing a comic everyday, their style and disipline and storytelling abilites just grew 20 fold. So I plan on doing that sometime in the next two years, doing a comic everyday for a year. This is the best guess that I can give you on where my art is headed.
Phew...that was fun! Common, let me interview you, LJ-friends!
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