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The funny thing is, no doubt if he were alive to read this he’d think I was totally full of shit. Ah, I loved him from the start, he was a real character.
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Lou was a crusty motherfucker, and I was a snotty know-it-all of a kid without the skills to back his shit up, and Lou busted my ass on many an occasion and I hated him for it, but it wasn’t long before I grew to love that guy. The other one is a guy who’s sadly no longer with us, Lou Stathis, ex of Heavy Metal and High Times and Vertigo, who also took me under his wing when I was starting out by hiring me-and firing me-for a project around 1990. I’ve always considered Matt Wagner to be a bit of a mentor, in that he gave me my first work in the field and offered me some good advice about the craft and the business at a time when I really needed it. On the other hand I’ve fallen into a million other pitfalls so maybe I shouldn’t get too smug. I can always spot in people’s stuff when they’re winging their perspective, when they don’t really understand the fundamentals, it’s glaring and I’m glad I managed to avoid that particular pitfall. Andre Sepa wherever you are, I’ve always wished I could thank you, not only for allowing me to get away with ruining many a class with my antics but also for being so strict about getting the work done. My art teacher was a perspective master who took great pains to make sure his students had a solid grasp of the discipline which I have benefited from greatly ever since, so thank you Mr. The only valuable things I learned in all of high school were typing and perspective. The most valuable art training I had was in grade nine when I learned about perspective. I did take a few extra-curricular art courses when I was a kid, and of course art was always part of school growing up, but I didn’t go to art college or anything (to my chagrin), I just drew and drew and drew, my entire life. Self-taught or formally educated? (or mixture of both, mentors etc…)Īlmost entirely self-taught. You can still see the tear stains on the pages. A quick story about it? I cried like a total pussy as I drew that second Grendel comic because my girlfriend of all of two months dropped me like a wet rag half way through. By that time Comico had folded, Dark Horse was now publishing Grendel, and the internet was only beginning to slowly take over every aspect of our lives. Who knew that job would be the start of nineteen years of pain and torture? And it wasn’t until ‘98 I think that that first Grendel story I did finally saw the light of day. I was 20, I’d been trying to break into the biz since I was like, 16. So that was the first time I ever saw my work in print. This would have been summer ‘90 I drew it, came out by the end of the year. Then later that year they hired me for another Grendel story, this one written by Steve Seagle. For reasons I no longer remember the company, Comico, immediately shelved the project. The first comics work I got paid for was a Grendel story I did in 89.
THE GUY WHO CRIED GRENDEL PROFESSIONAL
I want to read me some Godhead.įirst professional work (piece / year) and maybe a quick story behind it. What follows below is 4000 words that are equal parts inspiring and heartbreaking.
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The portrait below is the only photo thus far in the Masters of Ink series that I’ve taken personally. I followed up by email (which is how I conducted this interview). We shared a couple of beers downtown and engaged in a 2-hour conversation. When passing through Toronto last summer I couldn’t resist looking him up and finally meeting the man in person. We got Ho to write a blurb for the back cover of Rex. This time it was Danijel Zezelj who hooked me up with him by email. Many years went by before I ran across Ho again. Soon after I bought I Want to be Your Dog (from Eros) at my local comic shop and became a lifelong fan. I first read the work of Ho Che Anderson back in the 1990’s when I ran across the first volume of his King trilogy in an indie bookshop in Montreal.