{"id":1183,"date":"2008-11-19T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T15:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2008-11-19T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T15:09:33","slug":"the-jhonen-vasquez-comics-journal-interview-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"The Jhonen Vasquez Comics Journal Interview… or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished reading issue #292 of The Comics Journal<\/em>–which features a fantastic interview with one of my favorite cartoonists, Kim Deitch–and noticed in the upcoming issues section that a scheduled interview with SLG’s Jhonen Vasquez appears to have disappeared without a trace.<\/p>\n

From issue #291:<\/p>\n

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Now, from issue #292:<\/p>\n

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I guess if it’s been cancelled it may be a good thing.\u00a0 I’m no theologian but I’m pretty sure that a Jhonen Vasquez interview in The Comics Journal<\/em> is one of the seven signs of the apocalypse.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, if it’s just been bumped to a later issue (which is most likely, I imagine) I guess we can assume–based on Jhonen’s quote below from an older Suicide Girls<\/em> interview<\/a>–that he’s finally completed his autobiographical GN about making a sandwich:<\/p>\n

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DRE: … It’s not like The Comics Journal ever talked about you.<\/div>\n
JV: No those people would never come near me. They’d come near me if I was unknown, doing terribly and writing a very matter of fact series about my true life experiences making a sandwich.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished reading issue #292 of The Comics Journal–which features a fantastic interview with one of my favorite cartoonists, Kim Deitch–and noticed in the upcoming issues section that a scheduled interview with SLG’s Jhonen Vasquez appears to have disappeared without a trace. From issue #291: Now, from issue #292: I guess if it’s been … <\/p>\n

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