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
book slave-labor moments
At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.
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.
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.
taken writing guy
I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.
rats today dolls
Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.
friends boys want
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.
ideas preparation use
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.
growing-up brain experience
I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain.
kids way stuff
In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.
running fun believe
I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.
winning awards guy
I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.
witty trauma closing
Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.
self answers loathing
Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive. Besides, I've become increasingly doubtful as to whether I can die at all. But let's not get into that.
creepy cartoon watches
Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.