ME ON 1992

6 Notes

I set aside tonight to do a ton of interviews, but I thought I’d share this snippet from one of them where the interviewer was particularly harsh on Image Comics, circa 1992 and kinda sums up my feelings on comics in general:

I also don’t think as harshly as you do about the early Image stuff. Were they revealing truths about the human condition and making me reexamine my life? Not at all, but man, they were fun to read. They got me excited to create comics. I think that counts as ‘mission accomplished.’

I don’t expect every movie to be Wild Strawberries or every book to be Ulysses. Sometimes I want to get insight to the inner working of a soul, but sometimes I just want a couple of robots to beat the shit out of each other. I listen to classical music, I listen to Wu-Tang Clan, I listen to the Dandy Warhols, I listen to The Spookies, I listen to the Drive soundtrack, I listen to Serge Gainsbourg. I’m a dude who likes variety. I don’t want the same thing over and over. I just bought the third hardcover volume of Rob Liefeld’s X-Force in the same week I got Cosey’s new Jonathan tome. There’s a place for it all. I don’t think the early Image books promised something they weren’t.