Jhonen Vasquez
Jhonen Vasquez
Jhonen C. Vasquezis an American comic book writer, cartoonist and music video director. He is best known for creating the comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, with its spin-off comics Squee! and I Feel Sick, and the Nickelodeon animated series Invader Zim...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth1 September 1974
CitySan Jose, CA
CountryUnited States of America
american-cartoonist book johnny
Johnny was the very first book I did.
american-cartoonist buy letter negative parent response
Usually when I get a letter from a parent it's because they buy my stuff. I don't really get a whole lot of negative response in general.
affected age american-cartoonist hated retro shows stuff
Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show.
american-cartoonist audience funny guess laugh robot
Some robot who never made me laugh didn't think was funny or didn't think the audience would understand. I guess that's television.
american-cartoonist characters far full himself joke laughing series
When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
american-cartoonist came days love met people truly work
I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life.
writing trying robots
I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.
reading light might
I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
growing-up thinking past
Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.
kids littles television
But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.
winning thinking awards
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.
people audience
It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.
school drawing dinosaurs
In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.
hate book writing
I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.