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I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's. Jhonen Vasquez
Age People Old Fans First Back Emails Could Through Like Comics Doing Go Lot Up Then Lowest Started
Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again. Jhonen Vasquez
Me Back Everyone Emails Johnny Over Since New Comics Go Been Done Going Again Asking Working Flooded Ever Thinks
But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television. Jhonen Vasquez
Television Kids Find Invader Could Lot Whenever Little Little Kids Who Now Watched
But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy. Jhonen Vasquez
Happy Draw Worst Tried Could Thus She Make Boy Comic Comics Noodle Friends Want Anymore Create Fast Her
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. Jhonen Vasquez
People Think Respectable Magazines Guy Fact Mentioned Wins Looks Industry Because Audience Comic Comics Traditional Very Get Gets Used Who Awards Thing Buyers Thinks
At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day. Jhonen Vasquez
Day Book Free Comic Comic Book Doing Very Labor Behind Moment Slave Compilation
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. Jhonen Vasquez
Me Preparation Tell Outlines Had Idea Along Got Dialogue Came Did Just Wanted Sketches Then Page Use Less Farther Series Vague Vague Idea
I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well. Jhonen Vasquez
See Well Because Go Handled Want Them Things Violence
Good morning is a contradiction of terms. Jim Davis
Good Morning Good Morning Terms Contradiction
I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today. Jim Davis
Today Heart Farm Asthma Would Would-Be Boy Still Child Farmer Suffered
Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them. Jim Davis
Art Thoughts You Cats Feelings Back Attribute Because Human Automatically Laid Laid Back Them
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. Jim Davis
Life Music Art You Writing Opportunities Opportunity Focus Three Give More Loss Debilitating Handicap So Many Opportunities Capabilities Many Necessarily Two
I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition. Jim Davis
Thought Say Could Cat Condition Human Wanted Anything Human Condition Create If I Could Convincing
The understatement is the English contribution to comedy. Jim Davis
Comedy Understatement Contribution English
I can go everywhere and no one recognises me. Jim Davis
Me Everywhere Recognises No-One Go
Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing. Jim Davis
Drawing Something Head Commit Then Start
When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash. Jim Davis
You Through Throw Cat Your Trash
You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind. Jim Davis
You Mind Lying Something Bed Your Play
I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun. Jim Davis
Happy Reading State Honored Make Ball Very Create Fun Foundation Garfield Professor
It occurred to me that cats were being held back a little bit. I thought, 'I'll give the cat human thoughts and feelings but not be apologetic for it. That would be very catlike.' Jim Davis
Me Thoughts Cats Thought Feelings Back Bit Would Would-Be Give Cat Occurred Were Very Human Being Little Little Bit Apologetic Held
The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head. Jim Davis
Strip Easier Animated Animation Head Because Comic Comic Strip Surprising Surprising Thing Than Working Garfield Actually Thing
I've always admired sharks because they have a dimension of intelligence that is somewhat unique to that animal, and especially a great white. A great white has this organ called an ampullae of Lorenzini, and it can actually sense electromagnetic disturbances. Jim Toomey
Great Animal Intelligence Sharks Sense Organ White Dimension Admired Somewhat Because Always Electromagnetic Unique Actually
Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom. Jim Toomey
Great Sometimes White Bathroom Giant Characters Easy Seeing Shark Putting Making Same Happens Story Room Two Imagine
I'm a big diver. I like to dive when I travel, and my last dive was in the Galapagos. I used to live in San Francisco and I would dive all the time in Monterey. Jim Toomey
Time Travel Big Live Francisco Would Dive Like San San Francisco Used Last
I loved my computer; it's a tool. A tool increases your mechanical advantages. It allows you to use your strengths and talents to greater advantage, and that's what tools do, and that's what my computer does for me. It's not my toy, it's my tool. Jok Church
Me You Increases Tool Tools Computer Advantage Advantages Talents Toy Greater Does Loved Use Your Mechanical Strengths
I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts. Jok Church
World Enjoy Our Physical Physical World Leap Material Material World Questions Hearts Asked Really
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