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
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.
cutting people ignorant
Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival.
cake icing icing-on-the-cake
I like not being dead. Anything beyond that is just icing on the cake.My undead cake of livingness.
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.
power looks not-interested
All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.
reading kids littles
I don't want little kids reading my comics.
kids way stuff
In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.
magazines littles pieces
I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now.
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.