20 Questions for 20 Years of Slave Labor Graphics: The Dan Vado Interview
Slave Labor Graphics editor, Dan Vado, is interviewed over at Newsarama today. He has some interesting insights about a number of things including the non-Direct Market comics readership that supports the work of some of SLG’s A-List cartoonists like Jhonen Vasquez and Roman Dirge, as well as the recent graphic novel/bookstore boom (and perhaps soon-to-be glut). My favorite part of the interview, though, was this hilarious zinger from Dan, referrencing (I assume) an event that I witnessed myself while at the SLG booth at the San Diego comic-con in 2004:
I have never really gone about “acquiring” anyone. Everyone we publish is someone who has come to us. You kind of have to want to be here in order to be here. I’m not the kind of guy who is going to walk up to a creator while they are sitting at another publisher’s booth and hand them my card (like certain Vertigo editors like to do).
OH, SNAP!
The editor in question I’ll leave unnamed, but the creator is one Jim “Street Angel” Rugg, who was blatently cherry-picked right off the SLG table!
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