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Jhonen Vasquez

"Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic."

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"Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic."

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Donna Grant

"There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me."

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Donna Grant

"But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up."

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Donna Grant

"Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic."

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Donna Grant

"After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines."

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Donna Grant

"Some of those cartoons look nothing like me."

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Donna Grant

"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."

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