Started:
Fantagraphics Books with a business partner in 1976.
Is working on:
A 200,000-word retrospective of his scathing comics criticism, which will be
published by Fantagraphics next year.
Enjoys:
Going out to the middle of nowhere and shooting guns at “objects” like “old refrigerators.”
There’s a certain sad rite of passage that thousands of children go through every year. These kids love comic books—they probably learned how to read thanks to comics—and they’ve spent years doodling and sketching and filling notebooks with their own comics, in the hopes of becoming a cartoonist when they grow up…