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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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Aberjhani

"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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Aberjhani

"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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Aberjhani

"Some of those cartoons look nothing like me."

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Aberjhani

"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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Aberjhani

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

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Aberjhani

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

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Aberjhani

"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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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
"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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Jhonen Vasquez
"I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life."

Life

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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'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture."

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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
"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
"When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines."

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