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| Glamourpuss #20 (July 2011) Art by Dave Sim |
(from the 100 Hour Tour: Comics Village, 21 February 2008)
...Even as I was conceiving of glamourpuss, talking it over with
Chester Brown particularly, there was a definite sense of "Why would you
even bother doing this? Go with the flow. Do a cartoony Dave Sim
autobio graphic novel." And I don't mean just from Chester, Joe Matt
said basically the same thing about the COLLECTED LETTERS 2 cover when
he was up from LA for TCAF and I showed it to him at The Beguiling. He
couldn't have hated it more if it was a guy's face in one of his dubbed
porno tapes. But when he saw the Kirby Monster I did as a benefit for
the Doug Wright Awards? "See, you're really good at this...you should do
more stuff like this." I had talked to Chester about it on the phone
("I told Seth I'm doing a Kirby Monster and he's doing one, too") so I
got off the phone and three hours later I had a full colour 11x17 Kirby
Monster. Coming off all the photorealism stuff I was doing it was like
leaving the NHL and playing road hockey for the night. No precision
necessary. Going from a situation where a few microns difference in
placement of a model's eye can be the difference between "Sweet!" and
"Dude, yechh -- what's up with her left eye" to "This is roughly where
the eye goes -- could be off by an eighth of an inch but, hey, it's a
Kirby Monster. If it's too symmetrical, if the ink line is too clean or
sharply defined, if the feathering all goes the same way it's going to
look like an illustrator trying to "fix" Kirby.
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