Last week a friend sent me a link to Amy Jean Porter’s “Frog Wins!” comic that is a part of her Drawings in a Hurry series, collected on the current events & culture website The Awl. Instant fondness for her comic led to reaseach into more of her work and eventually to her website, which is absolutely full of vague charming brilliance. I asked her a few quick questions. You can see her answers (and more of her images) after the jump.
- Amy Jean Porter
Where do you live?
I live in the woods in the middle of Connecticut.
What time is it right now?
10:52 pm.
- Amy Jean Porter
What has your day been like so far?
Not bad! Super rainy and misty though. I kept waiting for the ghost monkeys to come out of the trees.
What do you like to eat?
Cookies, oatmeal, fruit things.
- Amy Jean Porter
What are your favorite things to draw?
I do like to draw animals, also trees and insects. Anything that grows really. Also architecture.
Are you a tidy or a messy person?
My baseline is tidy, though if there’s a giant mess it means I’m getting something done.
- Amy Jean Porter
Do you have any pets? If so, what kind?
No pets, but we have two little kids and a forest full of birds and rodents.
What is the best thing about life?
The people and creatures who live it with you.
- Amy Jean Porter
H/T: Jeff Steichen
Nice “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” reference Amy Jean! Unless of course Ghost Monkeys are a more pervasive myth than I was aware.
Amy is amazing! She drew an Aardvark and an Aardwolf for the covers of Filter Vol. II –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29509177@N0…
And her erasure collaboration with Matthea Harvey, “Of Lamb” is really fantastic. .